Performance Engineering

• Provide technical assistance to improve system performance, capacity, reliability, and scalability.  
• Perform root cause analysis of performance issues and suggest corrective actions. 
• Lead Technology Initiatives to address the stability, performance, and resilience of production systems.
• Analyze test results and work with developers and engineers to perform bug fixes.  
• This role will be responsible for reviewing operational trends to identify key areas to focus on to improve the environment's overall production readiness. 
• Lead Complex Engineering Initiatives.
• This role will be responsible for developing plans and roadmaps to drive new initiatives; will be required to have deep expertise and technology leadership skills. 
• Analyze operational data to identify performance and stability issues. Sizing infrastructure needs and optimizing them for higher performance.
• Analyze business requirements and data processing problems to oversee the development of test plans and strategies for various applications. 
• Provide guidance to engineering teams on complex technology performance challenges and/or issues. 
• Define performance engineering requirements and architecture for new applications. 
• Develop/provide standard reports on performance and resilience testing results for senior management.

• Must have proven experience of 4-7 years
• Must have experience in working with cloud infrastructure technologies -  Openshift/AWS/Kubernetes/Docker etc.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, or related field.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification preferred.
• Proven ability to solve problems creatively.

• Minimum 5 years of Testing experience , with at least 3 years of Test Automation
• “Automation first” attitude.
• Strong sense of accountability and ownership.
• Good team player and communicator with a flexible, customer-driven attitude.
• Agile / Lean attitude and mindset.
• Believe in daily improvement, easily adapt to change and have fun while doing it.
• Work well independently and within a team.
• Knowledgeable about different Software Delivery Lifecycles.
• At least 1 year experience in using at least one tool for:
• Test automation tools: Selenium Web driver, Postman, RestApi Automation
• Non-functional testing: JMeter, HP LoadRunner

Job Title: Performance Engineer

Experience: 6+ years

Primary Skill: Jmeter, Neoload

Location: Hyderabad

Fulfilment Type: Fulltime

• Identify future performance needs and architectural changes based on platform scale;
• Bring your passion to contribute to an exceptional customer experience regarding the performance and scalability of our platform;
• Develop a framework to run PSR tests and measure stats for them;
• Continuously tune Infrastructure and platform performance;
• Provide capacity planning for platform services and influence product architecture for higher resiliency and lower cost of ownership;
• Operate internal testing infrastructure and raise potential defects to development teams;
• Establish best practices and standards for performant platform development;
• Create and maintain reports that describe performance issues and possible root causes;
• Work with various development teams to ensure SLA of their core APIs are tracked and maintained release over release;
• Collaborate with developers, architects, Product Management, Operations and other cross functional teams to successfully achieve teams’ objectives;
• Build and enhance infrastructure and framework and provide actionable metrics to help understand performance issues and address them proactively;
• Evaluate system performance and recommend improvements;
• Provide technical assistance to improve system performance, capacity, reliability and scalability;
• Perform load tests to validate system and solution performance and stability.

• 5+ Years of experience in performance testing
• Must have proven experience in JMeter.
• Willing to join in a short notice period (20-25 days)
• Excellent proficiency in architecting and designing performance tests at an enterprise/application level on a variety of technical stacks based on the understanding of the architecture
• Excellent analytical skills and proficiency to dig down and pinpoint performance issues and recommend probable tuning solutions

This role is for a passionate and meticulous Test Engineer, with a strong focus on ensuring better customer experience through hands-on implementation of QA best practices

• Designing test strategies, covering functional and non-functional requirements, planning, execution, reporting and automating
• 100% automation accountability
• Multitask on release deliverables, customer issues, stake-holder management
• Ensuring traceability matrix processes between requirements, test design, test cases artifacts to achieve 100% customer requirements coverage
• Plan and achieve code coverage targets via test design and test automation
• Prompt and meticulous in reporting status of ongoing tasks/deliverables
• Challenging status-quo, responding to opportunities/organization needs, showing proactive accountability with a strong focus on fundamentals of Test engineering

Mandatory skills:

• Deep understanding of SaaS/Web-based applications/ Micro Services architecture
• Strong in fundamentals of Functional and Non-functional testing concepts (Reliability, Stress, Load, Limits, Performance, Scalability, Usability, Security, Configuration/Compatibility, ad-hoc, etc.)
• Automation :
  Selenium (Java) OR
  API testing (Jmeter, RestAssured)
• SDLC, STLC (Agile), JIRA, Defect Life Cycle
• At least 1 - 4 years of experience in tech product companies.
• BE/BTech/MTech graduate

PSQs:

• Are you willing to work as a 100% hands-on Individual Contributor?
• Do you have hands-on experience in test design strategies, covering both Functional and Non-functional testing?
• How many years of hands-on automation experience do you have?
• Please specify scripting languages and tools?
• Are you flexible to work from the office (Bangalore) as and when needed, in a hybrid model?

You will work with a top-notch tech team and report to the engineering head.

A wholesome opportunity in a fast-paced environment that will enable you to juggle between concepts, yet maintain the quality of content, interact, and share your ideas, and have loads of learning while at work. Work with a team of highly talented young professionals and enjoy the benefits of being at Xoxoday.

Xoxoday is a rapidly growing fintech SaaS firm that propels business growth while focusing on human motivation. Backed by Giift and Apis Partners Growth Fund II, Xoxoday offers a suite of three products - Plum, Empuls, and Compass. Xoxoday works with more than 2000 clients across 10+ countries and over 2.5 million users. Headquartered in Bengaluru, Xoxoday is a 300+ strong team with four global offices in San Francisco, Dublin, Singapore, New Delhi.

We look forward to connecting with you. As you may take time to review this opportunity, we will wait for a reasonable time of around 3-5 days before we screen the collected applications and start lining up job discussions with the hiring manager. We however assure you that we will attempt to maintain a reasonable time window for successfully closing this requirement. The candidates will be kept informed and updated on the feedback and application status.

Requirement:

• 5+ years of experience in Quality Assurance
• Knowledge of Casino Gaming Domain
• Experience in Kiosk Application testing
• Experience in Assets Testing
• Configuration of Screens, Promotions and Drawings
• Experience in Azure DevOps bug tracking tool
• Experience of regression testing, integration testing.
• Debugging skills
• Good communication skills and ability to interact with clients.
• Good problem solving skills.
• Bug raising and retesting.

• Deep experience on Performance Engineering with understanding of Java/J2EE technologies.
• Experienced in defining and realizing end-to-end Technical Architecture for large scale real- time enterprise systems. Ability to identify and define non-functional requirements and design systems to meet the same.
• Ability to review existing Architectures and identify Risks, Trade-offs, and share recommendations for addressing the identified issues.
• Demonstrate strong understanding of cloud architecture considerations when scaling and tuning application deployments. Must have hands on experience working on any of the Cloud deployments on AWS or Azure.
• Good experience on leveraging APM tools to provide deep dive analysis on performance problems. Deep understanding of the dashboards which can be built for CIO level interactions. Must have relevant experience on APM tools like Dynatrace or AppDynamics.
• Experience in performance optimization of J2EE systems on any of different types of application servers - WebLogic, WebSphere, JBoss etc. Deep expertise in any one of the application servers is a must.
• Experience in creating and reviewing technical documents like Architecture blueprint, Design specifications, Deployment architecture.
• Experience on working on Performance Testing Projects. Fair understanding of Performance Testing tools - Apache JMeter /Gatling/ HP Load Runner for Load testing. Must be in a position to review Performance Testing programs and steer directions towards right Workload Model, appropriate Test and Monitoring Strategy, build performance models and derive at right Capacity Planning.
• Experience in Big Data Analytics like - Apache Kafka, Apache Storm, Apache Hadoop, Apache Spark.
• Good skills in RDBMS like: Oracle, MS-SQL, MySQL, Cassandra, and Mongo DB
• Exposure to Agile methodologies & Continuous Integration Tools
• Entrepreneur / Intrapreneur (someone who has built technology teams ground-up, built new solutions from scratch)
• Very sound understanding of technology and have a consultative approach.
• Sound understanding of complex enterprise IT environment and issues faced by CIOs in the digital era.
• Excellent Pre-sales experience and have played a key role in winning business along with the sales team.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, liaison and problem-solving skills with the ability to work in a multi-cultural environment
• Good negotiation skills
• Go getter and results oriented
• High energy level with ability to work well under pressure
• Good relationship building skills. Someone who enjoys CIOs trust and has an ability to develop relationships at all levels (technology teams) of the customer organization.