Performance Test Engineer

We are looking for a Performance Test Engineer to conduct system-level performance and load testing. This position will also mimic customer environments and develop and support a test environment to ensure the quality of IPC's software products.

What You Will Be Doing

• Lead a performance testing team consisting of on/offshore team members of Quality Engineering Organization
• Design and mentor those in creating best-in-class performance testing approaches and plans for enterprise-wide projects
• Assist project members with infrastructure and application performance monitoring and analysis.
• Evaluate overall system capacity during end-to-end load tests.
• Work tightly with software development, architecture, and system engineering for performance testing and application analysis initiatives to define success criteria and evaluation methodologies.
• Work closely with the test management team to establish performance testing criteria.
• Provide quality, process, and technical leadership within the Performance Management team.
• Provide insight into performance bottlenecks leveraging a variety of skills and tool sets on multiple platforms.
• Establish a strong presence as a change agent providing innovative, effective, and efficient Performance Management practices and solutions.

What You Need for this Position

• 7+ years of experience in performance testing.
• Experience with Mercury/HP Software automated performance testing tools (including test scripting, test execution, results analysis, tuning/troubleshooting, and reporting);
• Knowledge of VOIP systems (testing or installation);
• Experience with Agile
• Strong Experience in scripting (Perl, TCL, shell, etc.)
• Strong Experience in Load Runner (min. of 2 to 3 years). Test case writing and scenario designing.
• Must possess strong experience using and implementing best practice programs with respect to load generation, bottleneck analysis, usage of modeling tools, and statistical analysis.
• Strong experience in enterprise and distributed application performance testing
• Experience with SQL and Linux.
• Bachelor's degree or the equivalent in Computer Engineering, IT or related field.

What's in It For You

• Outstanding benefits including 401K, full health insurance, commuter benefits, and generous PTO.
• IPC is growing fast with over a thousand employees.
• Award-winning trading communications platform powering the global financial market.