Performance Engineer
Location: Malaysia
NextLabs® is the leading provider of policy-driven information risk management (IRM) software for large enterprises, provides an exciting opportunity for Performance test engineers to join hands with highly talented product development teams in producing documentation for the next generation data protection and entitlement manager products. Our customers include many prominent enterprises in Aerospace & Defense, Financial Services, and High-Tech Manufacturing and Engineering industries. NextLabs’ flagship data protection and entitlement management products, Enterprise Data Protection and Compliant Enterprise®, combine with the CloudAz XACML-based policy management platform with integrated content aware and identity-driven enforcement technology to offer the most comprehensive information risk management (IRM) solution. Our products preserve confidentiality, prevent data loss, and ensure compliance across more channels and more points, within a single unified solution with the unmatched user acceptance and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).
We are looking for a talented PERFORMANCE ENGINEER for our award-winning Information Risk Management products. You will be responsible for designing performance test architecture, test plans, executing performance tests and building performance benchmark for cloud and on-premises applications. Join a rapidly growing company that delivers solutions for an increasingly critical component of information technology.
Responsibilities
- Design performance test architecture, strategy and test plans for cloud and on-premises applications.
- Build performance test workload models that can simulate load scenarios.
- Build and maintain a scalable, portable and configurable test scripts.
- Execute load, stress, volume, endurance, spike, break point, and concurrent testing.
- Execute performance compatibility testing on various cloud and on-premise platforms.
- Analyze performance matrices such as response time, throughput, resource utilization and error rates.
- Compare system performance with varying levels of physical resources (Memory, CPU, Disk, Network, etc.).
- Build performance benchmark for component and application levels of systems.
- Deliver various end-user performance test reports.
- Collaborate with Engineering team to develop system capacity planning guidelines based on the performance data.
- Conduct performance profiling across the entire software stack to identify performance bottlenecks.
- Collaborate with Engineering team to address identified issues and optimize performance of the products.
Requirements
- A bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field.
- Proven experience (min. 5 years) in performance testing or engineering of enterprise software applications.
- Strong understanding of system architecture, including databases, networks, servers and cloud infrastructure.
- Good understanding of the software stack from the application down to the OS and CPU levels.
- Ability to assess performance testing requirements and prerequisites.
- Experience designing test plans that accurately simulate real-world usage patterns, including various types of performance testing such as load, stress, volume, endurance, spike, break point, and concurrent testing.
- Strong scripting abilities to build and automate performance tests.
- Experience in performance testing of web applications, APIs and database.
- Good understanding of industry-leading performance test tools such as JMeter and HP LoadRunner.
- Experience building performance benchmarks and workloads, performance analysis.
- Expertise in application performance monitoring and profiling tools to identify bottlenecks.
- Strong analytical skills to interpret test results, and suggest optimizations.
- Keep up-to-date with the latest trends, tools and best practices in performance testing and engineering.
- Strong teamwork skills, a self-learning mindset, effective communication abilities, and a can-do attitude.
Interested candidates may send resume to jobs.my@nextlabs.com or use our online form.