Software Engineer III - Performance Testing

We have an exciting and rewarding opportunity for you to take your software engineering career to the next level. 

As a Software Engineer III at JPMorgan Chase within the Consumer and Community Banking team, you are part of an agile team that works to enhance, design, and deliver the performance testing software components of the firm’s state-of-the-art technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. As an emerging member of a software engineering team, you execute software solutions through the design, development, and technical troubleshooting of multiple components within a technical product, application, or system, while gaining the skills and experience needed to grow within your role.

Job responsibilities

• Executes standard software solutions, design, development, performance engineering and technical troubleshooting
• Writes secure and high-quality code using the syntax of at least one programming language with limited guidance
• Designs, develops, codes, and troubleshoots with consideration of upstream and downstream systems and technical implications
• Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain to improve the value realized by automation
• Applies technical troubleshooting to break down solutions and solve technical problems of basic complexity
• Gathers, analyzes, and draws conclusions from large, diverse data sets to identify problems and contribute to decision-making in service of secure, stable application development & testing
• Learns and applies system processes, methodologies, and skills for performance engineering of secure, stable code and systems

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

1. Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 3+ years applied experience

2. Strong conceptual knowledge performance engineering and testing
3. Hands-on experience in building load models
4. Experience in developing test approaches & strategies
5. Experience in writing detailed test plans and test scenarios
6. Ability to code complex automated scripts using C and Core Java using LoadRunner functions and LoadRunner - VUgen & Blazemeter - Jmeter for webservices, SOAP, REST APIs and MQ
7. Ability to script with enhanced correlation techniques, parameterization, validate against multiple users, and generate robust error handling scripts. 
8. Measurements of application performance and processing ceilings to identify tuning opportunities or prepare for growth 
9. Working knowledge of Splunk & Dynatrace for collecting metrics and validating production volumes to build testing load models
10. Ability to understand client behavior, use cases, and build load models with appropriate transactions per second, or # of concurrent users, understand/apply pacing s think time, triangulate geographical positions with latency, and chaos engineering. 
11. Have strong ability for driving triage work streams for defects

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Familiarity with mainframes performance concepts
• Exposure to CI/CD integrated performance testing
• Exposure to cloud technologies
• Strong Java knowledge, with exposure to Python, Shel Scripting and Unix/linux knowledge