Performance Engineering Lead - Brisbane

at  Planit Testing

Planit are world leaders in application testing and quality engineering. We provide solutions that support organisations to deliver high quality systems, applications, and IT architecture.
Planit is now a proud NRI company and part of a global movement to deliver a sustainable and secure future through better Information Technology exchanges. Our team offer expert consultancy, bespoke services, tailored training and unique solutions to complex projects. Specialising in digital quality, Planit have a geographic footprint across many continents, with 1700+ permanent employees and have been recognised in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Application Testing Services.
Our values and ethos are focused on an intrinsic connection to our people, the awareness of our environment and our pursuit to be better than yesterday. We continue to lead the industry with unrivalled ideas, ability, and a quest to discern paradigms.

ESSENTIAL SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

• Microfocus LoadRunner, Apache JMeter, Tricentis NeoLoad or another similar tool
• Scripting experience in C/C++, Java, Perl, Python or SQL
• Performance testing experience across Micro-services & REST APIs
• Exposure to moving workloads to cloud environments (AWS or Azure)
• Exposure to open source data visualisation tools would be ideal (but not essential).

ABOUT THE ROLE:

As Planit continues to grow and bring on new customers, we’re looking for experienced Performance Engineers to help our top-tier client base solve technical challenges. You will be called upon to operate in traditional and agile environments where you will be required to understand the client’s applications and architectures and engineer solutions to improve their performance. This will require technical acumen and soft skills to work with other team members and project stakeholders.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Implement performance solutions for our top tier client base.
• Conduct performance risk assessments and develop risk-based performance test plans for simple applications / architectures.
• Produce workload models from information provided by the project.
• Produce performance test schedules (effort / timeline).
• Create test plans to meet DevOps performance testing.
• Utilise multiple performance tools across multiple protocols and extend tools where necessary with custom code.
• Configure scripts to work with CI and wrapper tools.
• Collaborate with development and operations.
• Execute performance tests and provide clear and concise analysis of test results in a business context with recommendations.
• Generate load from multiple machines/locations.
• Understand impact on application and network of generating load from different network locations.
• Use complex techniques such as IP spoofing.
• Integrate metrics from performance testing into monitoring solutions.
• Implement processes for process monitoring and tool data quickly and automatically.