The Hospitality Cloud SRE team is focused on maximizing service reliability for our Cloud Native hotel product service offerings across global Oracle data centres. Our team runs with a start-up like approach, leaving room for creative freedom. We have worked to assemble the smartest people in the industry to build and grow this revolutionary and disruptive team. We are currently seeking a highly motivated experienced Senior performance engineer to join our amazing performance Engineering organisation.
Career Level - IC4
Main Objectives and Activities
- Contribute to the effort in designing the load and performance test framework based on analysis of production workloads.
- Contribute to the development and maintenance of load and performance testing standards, tools, techniques, and processes.
- Assist in the development of load and performance test strategies and complete load and performance testing assignments.
- Write and execute load and performance tests following industry best practice and coding standards.
- Work with developers and architects to understand application architecture.
- Conduct defect triage meetings, approve fixes to performance test environment, and track defects to closure.
- Conduct and communicate the test results to the project stakeholders via industry standard performance testing reports.
- Identify areas of performance bottlenecks, report observations to stakeholders, and make appropriate recommendations.
Review the results captured from application performance monitoring tools, support the identification of performance issues, and make recommendations to stakeholders.
Knowledge, Skills & Experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, a related field, or significant real-world business experience.
- Good understanding and appreciation of Cloud Native Computing Foundation Charter (CNCF) and Cloud Native Technologies
- Knowledge of Container technology (Docker etc.) and developing software to work in containers and container orchestration technologies (Kubernetes, Docker Swarm)
- Proficiency in multiple scripting languages such as Python, Bash, Perl, or Ruby. Ability to write clean, maintainable, and efficient code.
- At least 8 years of experience with a focus on load and performance testing and automated testing.
- Experience using continuous integration tools.
- Technical awareness and a solid understanding of software modern Cloud Native architectures.
- Ability to understand NFRs and liaise closely with Architects and Product Owners.
- Experience working in continuous integration environment and configuring tools.
- Experience testing within Agile delivery environments.
- Experience with version control systems such as Git.
- Expertise in effective defect management and triage strategies.
- Proficient in using load and performance test tools like Visual Studio, Apache Jmeter, K6, Gatling, Blazemeter, Neoload and Smartbear Load UI.
- Experience developing API, Service level, and UI tests with frameworks such as Visual Studio, PlayWright, Postman, Selenium, ReadyAPI, Quick Test Professional, UFT, and Jmeter.
- Knowledge and experience of Monitoring and Observability pipeline and Observability enabling tools (Prometheous, Grafana, Thanos, ELK, Datadog etc)
- Understands load and performance frameworks, how they are configured, how to troubleshoot them when things go wrong.
- Excellent oral and written communications; an ability to present and discuss technical information in a way that establishes rapport, persuades others, and gains understanding. (Fluent in English is essential)
