Performance Engineering / Performance Testing Lead

Title: Performance Engineering / Performance Testing Lead

Location: Mississauga (Hybrid)

Key Responsibilities:

·         Gather and analyse business technical system architecture SLA and performance testing requirements

·         Define the performance testing strategy scope test approach detailed test plan workload model entry and exit criteria and execution schedule

·         Analyze production logs application usage patterns transaction volumes and peakload data to develop productionlike workload models

·         Design develop enhance and maintain performance test scripts using LoadRunner JMeter IBM Rational Performance Tester BlazeMeter and SOAP UI

·         Perform load stress scalability endurance volume batchprocessing API and integration performance testing

·         Develop scripts for Web HTTPHTML web services RESTSOAP APIs TruClient Citrix SAP GUI Siebel Java Vuser RDP XML and other clientserver protocols

·         Configure performance test scenarios execute tests collect metrics analyze results and prepare detailed performance reports

·         Monitor application servers web servers middleware databases operating systems Kubernetes environments Kafka platforms and cloud infrastructure during testing

·         Analyze response time throughput scalability CPU memory processor queues context switches page faults network latency and database performance

·         Perform JVMlevel analysis using logs heap dumps and thread dumps and work with development teams to identify performance issues

·         Analyze AWR ADDM SQL execution plans query execution time resource utilization and cachehit ratios to support database tuning

·         Use Dynatrace AppDynamics Splunk Kibana Grafana Prometheus Datadog AWS CloudWatch ITRS Geneos and related monitoring tools for bottleneck identification and rootcause analysis

·         Conduct multidimensional analysis request tracing hotspot identification and SLAimpact analysis and provide actionable optimization recommendations

·         Perform performance testing and monitoring of Kafka microservices Kubernetes pods cloudhosted applications middleware platforms and batch jobs

·         Integrate performance tests with CICD pipelines using Jenkins Maven GitHub GitLab and Bitbucket

·         Coordinate with business teams architects application development infrastructure database support QA cloud and globally distributed delivery teams

·         Lead performance engineering teams provide technical guidance review deliverables and ensure timely delivery with required quality standards

·         Support RFP responses solution design effort estimation tool evaluation and performance testing proposals

Mandatory Skills:

·         Strong experience in performance testing and performance engineering

·         Advanced handson experience with OpenTextHP LoadRunner and Apache JMeter

·         Strong scripting experience with Web HTTPHTML TruClient web services REST APIs and SOAP APIs

·         Experience in workload modelling production log analysis scenario design test execution and results analysis

·         Strong knowledge of application performance monitoring and observability tools such as Dynatrace AppDynamics Splunk Kibana Grafana Prometheus Datadog or AWS CloudWatch

·         Experience with JVM performance analysis including logs heap dumps and thread dumps

·         Experience analyzing Oracle AWR and ADDM reports SQL queries execution plans and database performance

·         Knowledge of application middleware database operatingsystem network and cloud performance metrics

·         Experience identifying performance bottlenecks and providing capacity scalability and tuning recommendations

·         Experience working in Agile and CICD delivery environments

·         Strong stakeholder management technical leadership analytical documentation and communication skill.