Teracore is a Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) classified management consulting and information technology services firm. We are committed to creating and maintaining a corporate environment and culture that promotes long-term employment. Diverse talents help us to achieve the missions and objectives of our customers. We hope we can partner together to achieve those goals.

The customer administers the nation’s lawful immigration system, safeguarding its integrity and promise by efficiently and fairly adjudicating requests for immigration benefits while protecting Americans, securing the homeland, and honoring our values. Quality and Independent Verification & Validation (IV&V) Services for Delivery This organization is the evolution of two programs and two task orders supporting those programs: Delivery Quality Assurance and Testing Services and Integration Testing and DevOps.

 Required Skills:

• US Citizen to obtain clearance
• BS/BA preferably in Technical area Computer Science or Information Technology
•  Minimum of 7-10 years of experience in Performance Testing.
• Minimum of 7-10 years of direct hands-on experience with load and performance testing with performance testing and associated tools (LoadRunner or JMeter). LoadRunner strongly preferred.
• Utilize LoadRunner tool suite to build dynamic automated performance test scripts to identify load and scalability concerns for web-based and mobile applications in a multi-tiered services-based architecture
• Must have strong experience with scripting using Vugen, including correlation and data parameterization techniques
• Functional knowledge of C for LoadRunner script customization
• Create and customize new scripts, or analyze and refactor / update existing LoadRunner scripts as applicable
• Review the performance test scripts created or modified by peers to ensure compliances with standards
• Experience designing and data driving dynamic test cases, identifying and planning test data based on real-life production volumes
• Strong experience in working with developers, system analysts and business partners to define business processes and associated volumes when applicable
• Communicate and collaborate with operational support teams to ensure testing requirements are identified and included in the test design
• Ability to work with, and guide, project/development teams in understanding and defining performance test scope. Translate identified scope into a solution that can be designed using the LoadRunner tool suite.
• Design and manage performance test scenarios using LoadRunner Enterprise
• Must have experience with performance diagnostics monitoring, performance test solution architecture design, performance tuning collaboration
• Experience with performance monitoring tools – New Relic or similar (Dynatrace et al), Splunk, Amazon RDS Performance Insights or other tools in order to identify and drill down for bottleneck or issue identification
• Ability to provide meaningful observations to SMEs using data available in performance monitoring tools
• Understanding of server resources and metrics such as throughput, latency, memory, and CPU utilization
• Ability to identify, isolate and ensure that results for system architecture components (servers, services, etc) performance can be quantified and communicated
• Execute tests, analyze results and monitor performance diagnostics via continuous collaboration with development / architecture SMEs
• Collect, analyze, and report performance testing results to management, developers, architecture SMEs or business stakeholders
• Experienced in understanding architecture (end-to-end)
• Experience with cloud based technology such as AWS or Azure
• Understanding of DevOps and CI/CD related components, such as Apigee, Kafka, Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins, CloudBees, GitHub
• Functional use of SQL
• Functional knowledge of JSON, XML and services request and response structure and syntax
• Exposure to frameworks such as React, Angular, Node js
• Functional knowledge of Java, Javascript or other currently prevalent programming languages
• Experience with Agile project delivery methods and concepts

At Teracore, we support, depend and thrive on differences for the benefit of our associates and customers. Teracore is an equal opportunity employer. Employment decisions are based solely on a person's merit and professional qualifications directly related to job competence.