Performance Engineer
Uptake is a Chicago-based predictive analytics SaaS platform provider that empowers major industry leaders to optimize performance, reduce asset failures and enhance safety. At Uptake, we combine our strengths—machine learning, analytics, data visualization and software development—with the expertise of our industrial partners. The result is enormous savings in development time and resources for Uptake’s partners and a proven industrial grade software platform that delivers value to partners and their end customers.
As a Performance Engineer, you’d create performance tests, manage platform stress and load and develop optimization methods. You’d work cross-functionally to identify problems and implement solutions.
Requirements
- Solid understanding of Java or Groovy. We are implementing a third-party API load testing tool that uses some Groovy. Java will be important to develop tests.
- Ability to work through Swagger documentation to understand capabilities of an implemented APIs.
- Ability to enhance performance test framework as well as implement individual tests.
- Experience with distributed load testing techniques.
- Experience with Jenkins project configuration.
- Ability to use Chrome Developer Tools to analyze page performance.
- Familiarity with New Relic reporting tools.
Nice-to-have’s
- Gatling load testing framework experience.
- Experience with performance test modeling.
- Experience using New Relic reporting to
- The ability to recognize performance issues in written code.
- Experience with HAR files and BrowserMobProxy.
- Experience with Jenkins pipeline configuration.
- Experience tuning web servers/ElasticSearch/Kafka for performance.
Day-to-Day Tasks
- Functional and load test authorship, execution, review/evaluation.
- Work with the automation framework team on load test framework changes/updates.
- Work with Customer Service to determine and validate the most common user workflows.
- Reporting performance issues to using Jira.
- Work with individual application development teams to get performance issues resolved.
- Review New Relic, troubleshoot post-deployment issues.
Please provide:
- Resume
- Cover letter