Senior Performance Tester with APM

Cognizant Technology Solutions is looking for "Senior Performance Tester with APM" to join in our team of IT professionals in a permanent role. If you meet our background requirements and skills and are looking for an opportunity with these skills and expertise, here is the ideal opportunity for you!

About Cognizant's QEA Practice:
We are the largest Quality Assurance Practice Globally servicing 800+ Clients. We bring the industry leading vision and expertise to help with Quality Engineering transformation journey for our reputed clients. We provide Next Gen QA offerings like System Modernization assurance, Business Process Assurance, Quality Engineering, Cloud Platform Assurance, Customer Experience Assurance and Robotic Test Automation. We have been ranked #1 for Market Impact by Everest Group for four times in a row and ranked #1 for completeness of vision, test advisory and Digital Business Assurance in Gartner Magic Quadrant!

Senior Performance Tester with APM
Location: Pittsburgh, PA

Required Qualifications:
* BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent
* Experience in translating non-functional requirements into Performance tests using workload modeling
* Extensive experience in executing performance tests (load/stress/endurance) using LoadRunner/JMeter/BlazeMeter and performance monitoring using APM tools to identify performance issues
* Proficiency in designing and automating performance test executions for CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins, Gitlab CI or Azure Devops
* Hands-on experience in APM tools like Dynatrace & AppDynamics to conduct root cause analysis for performance and scalability bottlenecks
* Able to analyze Splunk logs, Dynatrace distributed traces, method hotspots and response-time hotspots to identify slow components and provide recommendations
* Experience in performance testing for Cloud deployments, Docker/Kubernetes containerized applications and microservices

Roles/Responsibilities:
* Work with technical teams to analyze, design, and convert non- functional requirements to performance test scenarios
* Has an oversight on application quality, automation, and guides the team to achieve key quality results
* Responsibilities include performance testing, performance engineering, performance monitoring & analysis, etc.
* Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a focus on root cause analysis, troubleshooting activities and driving proactive resolutions
* Helps to grow NFT Quality Test Strategy standards within the system/application and compatibility with the architecture of the platform
* Individual Contributor with highly developed communication skills

Work Authorization:
Cognizant will only consider applicants for this position who are legally authorized to work in the United States without company sponsorship (H-1B, L-1B, L-1A, etc.)

Benefits: Cognizant offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements:

* Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance
* Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off
* 401(k) plan and contributions
* Long-term/Short-term Disability
* Paid Parental Leave
* Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Disclaimer: The salary, other compensation, and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. Cognizant reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.