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Vision Point Systems, Inc. Performance Test Engineer in McLean, Virginia

Vision Point Systems is currently recruiting for a Performance Test Engineer. Duties and responsibilities include:

  • Participate as part of an agile software development team to design, implement, execute and analyze automated performance tests of web-based applications.

  • Develop reusable automated test scripts and maintain their compatibility with software as application changes.

  • Utilize repeatable analysis techniques to provide standardized, actionable results

  • Develop performance testing plans to present to business stakeholders.

  • Observe and inspect application server performance metrics to identify bottlenecks.

  • Coordinate testing activities with the rest of the development team to avoid conflicts.

  • Develop and maintain an understanding of the business application under test in order to design a realistic simulation of user behavior.

  • Predict target loads by interviewing business stakeholders, reviewing usage data from existing systems, and modeling predicted future behavior.

  • Communicate identified potential problems clearly and unambiguously, and contribute to project development task prioritization.

Requirements

  • 1-2 years of experience in a technical position

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field

  • Working knowledge and understanding of Java, Groovy, and/or other coding software

  • Working knowledge of SQL

  • Solid experience with MS Excel or other data summarization and graphing tools

  • Demonstrated capability with verbal and written communications

  • Contract requires US citizenship and subsequent background check

Desired Skills:

  • Knowledge and/or experience with serverless AWS architecture

  • Experience with Appian

  • Experience with installation and administration of software applications in both Linux and Windows-based systems.

  • Ability to read and analyze application log files.

  • Experience with Apache JMeter, LoadRunner, or other application performance testing tools.

  • Knowledge and/or experience with HTTP(S), JSON, XML, Regular Expressions, SQL

  • Experience with analysis of RDBMS performance - such as query optimization, indexes, normalization/denormalization

Benefits

Full time employees with Vision Point Systems qualify for a generous benefits plan to include medical, dental, 1x your salary in life insurance, and short and long term disability. VPS also offers 401k participation and matching.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

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