Businesses face challenges every day building responsive and agile IT capabilities to grow and stay ahead. Since everyone has access to the same tools, your competitive advantage directly depends on how you apply technology – on the people leading, supporting and optimizing your IT initiatives. USM Business Systems, established in 1999, is an industry-leading private talent management firm, specializing in providing unique IT turnkey solutions, IT staffing solutions, and Talent management insights, enabling you to sustain a truly competitive advantage in this fast-moving environment. USM has offices throughout the US and offshore delivery centers in India. USM is a certified Minority Business Enterprise and is a CMMi Level 3 Organization.
USM is recognized as one of the fastest growing IT Temporary Staffing firms in the US and most recently was ranked #3 on the list of the Top Temporary Staffing firms in the DC Metro Area – Washington Business Journal (2016).
Job DescriptionPerformance Engineer - Only GC or EAD or CITIZENS
Reston VA
Must have skill: C#, Javascript, SQL, JSON, Visual studio
Senior QA Performance Engineer
Job Description: (the candidate needs dev and scripting skills, not just an HP LoadRunner admin)
The ideal candidate for the Performance Engineer position will have strong experience in developing performance and load test suites, diagnosing performance bottlenecks, and assisting development and test teams with performance optimization. This position will have the responsibility for performance and load testing various applications. The candidate must be a self-starter, have excellent communication skills and be an adaptable team player.
Responsibilities & Requirements
Responsibilities:
- Develops test suites to conduct load, stress and performance testing according to industry accepted best practices
- Designs, develops, executes and analyzes the performance test cases and scripts through analysis of product specifications and software requirements
- Maintains the quality and overall integrity of the test data
- Creates defects when issues are uncovered
- Writes, implements and reports status for all load/performance testing scenarios used for testing including performance under load, scalability and performance bottlenecks
- Analyzes test results and provides explanations of results to assist in the tuning process
- Work as a member of SCRUM team delivering high quality deliverables within the defined sprints
Requirements:
- Between 3- 5 years’ experience Performance and Load testing on Enterprise Web Applications
- Solid programming and scripting skills with an emphasis on C# and JavaScript languages
- Strong knowledge of SQL queries and stored procedures on Microsoft SQL 2012 and above
- Strong knowledge of HTTP, JSON and RESTful web service architecture and performance best practices
- Experience with performance testing and tuning on Microsoft IIS 7.0 and above
- The ability to infer or reverse engineer source code and database schemas in order to develop test harnesses that sufficiently exercise applications for performance and scalability
- Demonstrable experience with Visual Studio Ultimate test agents/controllers or similar commercial/open source performance and load testing tools
- Ability to assess the physical hardware supporting the application and extrapolate server environment needs based performance test results
- Ability to profile application source code to assist developers in identifying performance bottlenecks in the software Ability to formalize test results into reports that communicate findings
- Experience under iterative/agile methodologies a plus
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills and ability to multi-task
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Works well in a team environment and individually
Navya
navyar@usmsystems.com
703-953-1819
Additional InformationIf you are interested in the below position please forward your profile to navyar@usmsystems(dot)com or call me on 703 953 1819
Skills Required
- 3-5 years experience in performance and load testing
- Strong programming and scripting skills in C# and JavaScript
- Knowledge of SQL queries and stored procedures on Microsoft SQL 2012 and above
- Experience with performance testing on Microsoft IIS 7.0 and above
- Demonstrable experience with performance and load testing tools
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is considered acceptable to good overall, with market-competitive figures evident in certain technical roles. Payroll is described as on time with straightforward arrangements, supporting baseline confidence in compensation.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is characterized as solid in some contexts, including earlier mentions of free employer-paid insurance and a recent note of comprehensive benefits for certain employees. These experiences indicate pockets of strong medical coverage within the organization.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Access to paid time off and some work-from-home flexibility is cited, contributing to a workable balance in select situations. These elements add practical lifestyle support even when other benefits are average.
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What We Do
USM is helping companies change existing business paradigms by bringing tomorrow’s AI and Automation solutions to today’s businesses. Disruptive new technologies are helping corporations become more agile, competitive and profitable. Predictive algorithms are provisioning customer orders more accurately than ever before. Cognitive technologies are enhancing the customer experience at every touch point and open-ledger validation methods are improving the accuracy of complex, global financial transactions. Automation is no longer a choice, it is the engine that drives business growth. Established in 1999 as an IT Consulting services company in the Washington DC metro area, the USM group of companies today consists of 1000+ employees across North America, Europe, Asia and Australia, providing a range of services such as * Automation & Innovation * Architecture & Consulting * Maintenance & Support * Contingent Workforce. Our experts are SMEs in the following critical business areas – data sources (internet devices), mobile commerce strategies, customer acquisition & retention and ultimately, leveraging enterprise data management to drive competitiveness. We have the resources that can help you design your enterprise architecture, build & deploy your applications, as well as manage your IT operations 24x7. Our focus areas include AI, Data science, RPA, Connected cars & devices, Natural language processing, Computer vision, Virtual agents, Blockchain, IoT, Mobile commerce, Retention programs, AR, VR, Gaming, and Enterprise data management.
