Performance Engineer (Remote)

You will work on: We help many of our clients to deploy their applications in a continuous manner and with confidence – by meaningful performance test automation. You will have the opportunity to build frameworks for performance benchmarking and improving cloud-native applications. What you will do (Responsibilities): • Collaborate with Developers and Architects of products to build test automation scripts • Improve the performance of non-functional automation by parallelizing test executions • Test planning and management, defect lifecycle, traceability matrix and security breaking testing • Write performance test plans, create and automate test cases • Execute test cases including collecting system and Java performance data during testing • Consolidate test results into clear and concise reports • Create and track detailed JIRA issues for any performance or scalability problems • Work closely with functional testers to ensure that any functional issues that may be revealed during... performance testing are verified and reported • Work with product managers to assess the impact and severity of performance issues and identify and track issues that must be fixed • Work closely with developers to identify the root cause of performance problems What you bring (Skills): • 3+ years of performance testing experience with multi-tier web based applications built using the Java/JEE technology stacks • You know JMeter so well that people are convinced you developed it yourself • You effortlessly form strong give-and-take relationships with everyone you work with • After reading a functional specification, you can identify the performance and scalability concerns long before a single line of code is written • You move seamlessly between solving problems yourself and employing the assistance of others when it makes sense to do so • You’re an expert at conveying complicated statistics with clear and concise reports that highlight the most critical conclusions to even a non-technical audience. • Extensive experience developing and executing automated performance tests utilizing JMeter and other open source test tools • Extensive experience with Linux/Unix OS with a high command-line and shell scripting comfort level • Extensive experience with system and java performance analysis tools (YourKit experience a plus) • Strong understanding of Internet technologies (video technologies and/or ad decision systems experience in internet and/or cable environments a major plus) • Experience with MySQL databases and writing SQL scripts • Experience with Apache web servers, JBoss and Tomcat app servers • Experience with client-side technologies such as web browsers, YUI Grid, JavaScript, CSS, AJAX, HTTP, HTML/XML, XSL/XSLT, XPath, etc. Great if you know (Skills): • Experience with Java programming and debugging a plus • Experience working in development environments using Agile methods Advantage Cognologix: • Higher degree of autonomy, startup culture & small teams • Opportunities to become expert in emerging technologies • Remote working options for the right maturity level • Competitive salary & family benefits • Performance based career advancement About Cognologix: Cognologix helps companies disrupt by reimagining their business models and innovate like a Startup. We are at the forefront of digital disruption and take a business first approach to help meet our client’s strategic goals. We are automation driven organization helping our clients to deliver their next generation of products with confidence