bswift, an Aetna portfolio company, is a Chicago-based technology company that provides industry-leading benefits administration for employers and exchanges nationwide. We are currently looking for a Senior Performance Engineer to join our team in our Chicago, IL location.

 

Positon Summary: The successful candidate will build, execute, and debug high volume .NET performance tests against Windows Server 2012 infrastructure. Become an active member of a Systems Engineering team that loves to automate, secure, and learn about any technology it can get its hands on!

 

Fundamental Components:

· Collaborate with Product Management to identify test cases to be automated for use in performance testing.

· Create an automated performance suite with pre-defined scenarios, transactions, and performance SLA’s (Radview WebLoad).

· Work with the Systems Engineering team to identify and utilize telemetry data points for consumption during performance test execution (Perfmon, Splunk, AppDynamics, F5 Load Balancers).

· Investigate and report website performance issues that you are able to replicate (Radview WebLoad, IIS Web Farms, Microsoft SQL 2014, F5 Load Balancers, AppDyamics, Idera, Amazon CloudFront).

· Prototype new application performance management technology.

· Collaborate with developers, quality assurance, database administrators, and product management to ensure the performance issues you find are remediated.

· Get trained on:
o Radview WebLoad
o AppDynamics
o F5 Big IP Load Balancers
o Amazon CloudFront
o Idera SQL Diagnostic Monitor
o ThousandEyes
o PowerShell Desired State Configuration

· Work with Aetna’s performance testing team for guidance on performance testing best practices.

Background/Experience:

· 5+ years of experience load testing.

· 2+ years of experience with Windows Server 2008+.

· 2+ years of experience with IIS 8.0.

· Intermediate scripting ability (PowerShell/VBScript/Bash or other language).

· 3+ years of experience with writing SQL Queries.

· Experience writing/executing manual and automated test cases.

· Experience with tools web debugging proxies (Charles, Fiddler, FireBug).

 

Education:

· Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent experience.

 

 

About bswift:

At bswift, our values are Higher Standards, Greater Accountability and More Fun. We pride ourselves on having an engaged, friendly and smart team that goes the extra mile to get the job done right. The reward is fun, flexible and creative environment with ample opportunity for professional and personal growth.

 

bswift was named one of Chicago’s Best and Brightest Companies to Work For® in 2014, 2016 and 2016, as well as one of the Nation’s Best and Brightest Companies to Work For® in 2014 and 2015.

 

We are an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment regardless of personal characteristics or status. We take affirmative action to recruit, select and develop women, people of color, veterans and individuals with disabilities.

 

If you have what it takes to join our award-winning culture, we’d love to hear from you!

Benefit eligibility may vary by position. Click here to review the benefits associated with this position. 

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