Specific responsibilities include: identifying and communicating baseline expectations for the performance of kCura’s core products; driving software performance requirements through exploration of projected configurations and environments of kCura’s core products; ensuring the availability and efficiency of the environments that product development uses to develop and test kCura’s core products; working on processes and practices related to performance, load and scalability testing; recommending and implementing scalability and performance requirements by exploring the bounds of our core products; contributing to pre-release feasibility studies to assure our software requirements and technical designs are testable and capable from a performance perspective; performing the execution of baseline performance and load tests per release to assure our core software products have not regressed; creating automated scripts to simulate multi-user, multi-tiered systems running in different environments under various configurations; assisting in the design, documentation, and execution of backend tests for software installations, deployments, licensing, recovery and upgrades; analyzing performance results and recommending optimizations to hardware/software configurations, database design, and environment setup; providing testing assistance to the development teams for the creation and execution of new performance and load tests for newly developed functionality; gaining knowledge from Client Services on client infrastructure setup, performance bottlenecks, that help drive the way we performance test/debug/optimize our core products; and supporting Client Services by offering expertise to customers on domain specific setup and tuning of our products in their environment. Qualifications