Senior Performance Engineer

If you are looking for a meaningful job where people work and act with passion, rethink the existing and always strive to find the best solution - you have come to the right place. We develop future technologies to conquer supply chain complexity, together.

Senior Performance Engineers are responsible for design, implements and improves load automation framework solution for the developed products of the Körber. Must be able to work in an agile team environment with other quality engineers, software engineers, quality analysts, technical writers, and product owners. Proficiency in load/performance engineering principles and standards is a key requisite for success in this position.

What a Day In The Life Looks Like

• Develop and define comprehensive performance testing strategies for multiple projects, ensuring alignment with business objectives
• Develop and maintain performance testing frameworks, tools, and methodologies
• Analyze the business scenarios and understand the non-functional requirements to lay the foundation for robust performance testing frameworks
• Build a performance testing roadmap for the Koerber products by analyzing the current state of the projects
• Proficient in breaking down the phases and building the performance architecture roadmap. Collaborate with development, architecture, and infrastructure teams to optimize application performance
• Build modular automated performance test scripts to identify load and scalability concerns for web-based applications and mobile applications utilizing SOA design and APIs in a continuous integration environment to provide remediation plans
• Collaborate closely with the technical team lead and director to deliver non-functional test solutions aligned with defined objectives, schedules, standards, and cost targets, reflecting the technical test strategy
• Take ownership of the non-functional test solution throughout the project lifecycle, ensuring responsibility for each milestone within the release cycles
• Provide professional project planning, estimation, non-functional test approaches, technical test solution quality, issue/risk management, and results/analysis considering the department standards
• Employ load, stress, and analysis tools to model performance scenarios. Conduct initial analysis using performance monitoring tools, identifying potential system and resource bottlenecks
• Analyze performance results and produce relevant reports and quality metrics with suggestions for improvements
• Stay abreast of emerging trends in performance testing, researching and recommending system configuration and tuning improvements based on thorough observations
• Leverage some experience in load/performance testing microservices for SaaS products. This includes performance testing UI, APIs, and microservices with other service dependencies
• Work with the development, QA, DevOps, and Services teams as required to analyze the load execution results
• Mentor and guide fellow team members leveraging technical test resources to enhance overall team proficiency
• Demonstrate a working knowledge of cloud environments and deployments
• Develop dashboards and reports to offer ongoing visibility
• Provide actionable information and suggestions for the scalability and security of the application
• Develop and execute load automated test scripts using tools like K6, JMeter, Load Runner, or similar, ensuring comprehensive performance testing
• Work closely with DevOps and services teams to define test data for performance test execution
• Executes and maintains the continuous integration pipeline
• Suggests new tools and techniques to enhance the testing team’s productivity
• Must participate in demos and code reviews to learn how the feature functions to write load test cases and give feedback on the design
• Proactively seek assistance as needed to complete work in a reasonable amount of time
• Proactively seek to provide ideas on how to automate the product(s)
• Mentor more junior performance engineers in the process, tools, Products, etc
• Works independently while following established guidelines and delivering quality work on time at defined checkpoints
• Manages multiple projects simultaneously and delivers on-time results
• Actively participate in the Agile process such as daily huddles, estimating, code reviews, and retrospectives
• Continuous education to stay up to date on new automation practices
  
  

Skills Required

• Experience with Load/Performance Tools used in the project
• Proficiency in performance testing tools such as LoadRunner, JMeter, or similar
• Experience with performance monitoring tools
• Experience with cloud-based performance testing and monitoring tools
• Knowledge of DevOps practices and tools (e.g., Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes)
• Understanding of different technologies and methodologies including SDLCs, Continuous Integration, Automated Testing, Source Control, etc.
• Good understanding of any Performance tools, Performance Stats, C#, Visual Studio, VS Code, SQL, SQL tuning, Tracing tools, Azure DevOps, VSTest Console, Junit, and PowerShell
  
  

What We Do For You

• Work in fast-paced and dynamic environment, with international clients and colleagues
• Access to competitive Medical, Dental and Vision insurance
• Fun, casual, and flexible work environment
  
  

Help enable those who move goods to do good by contributing your skills and individual viewpoints in a highly collaborative, caring team environment.

Körber Supply Chain Software better enables those who move goods to do good when we prioritize diversity, equity, and inclusion. It’s better for our people, better for our business, and better for the world. That’s why at Körber we cultivate and celebrate our colleagues’ experiences and perspectives, whether they look, think, move, believe, or love differently than us. We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment and pride ourselves on being an equal opportunity employer. We encourage people from diverse backgrounds to apply and all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to gender and identity, age, race, religion, ethnicity, ancestry, sexual orientation or expression, disability, or veteran status.