Performance Engineer - Only GC or EAD or CITIZENS

Company DescriptionBusinesses 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 CITIZENSReston VAMust have skill: C#, Javascript, SQL, JSON, Visual studioSenior QA Performance EngineerJob 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 & RequirementsResponsibilities:Develops test suites to conduct load, stress and performance testing according to industry accepted best practicesDesigns, develops, executes and analyzes the performance test cases and scripts through analysis of product specifications and software requirementsMaintains the quality and overall integrity of the test dataCreates defects when issues are uncoveredWrites, implements and reports status for all load/performance testing scenarios used for testing including performance under load, scalability and performance bottlenecksAnalyzes test results and provides explanations of results to assist in the tuning processWork as a member of SCRUM team delivering high quality deliverables within the defined sprintsRequirements:Between 3- 5 years' experience Performance and Load testing on Enterprise Web ApplicationsSolid programming and scripting skills with an emphasis on C# and JavaScript languagesStrong knowledge of SQL queries and stored procedures on Microsoft SQL 2012 and aboveStrong knowledge of HTTP, JSON and RESTful web service architecture and performance best practicesExperience with performance testing and tuning on Microsoft IIS 7.0 and aboveThe ability to infer or reverse engineer source code and database schemas in order to develop test harnesses that sufficiently exercise applications for performance and scalabilityDemonstrable experience with Visual Studio Ultimate test agents/controllers or similar commercial/open source performance and load testing toolsAbility to assess the physical hardware supporting the application and extrapolate server environment needs based performance test resultsAbility to profile application source code to assist developers in identifying performance bottlenecks in the software Ability to formalize test results into reports that communicate findingsExperience under iterative/agile methodologies a plusStrong analytical and problem-solving skills and ability to multi-taskExcellent written and verbal communication skillsWorks well in a team environment and individuallyNavyanavyar@usmsystems.com703-953-1819Additional InformationIf you are interested in the below position please forward your profile to navyar@usmsystems(dot)com or call me on 703 953 1819SummaryFunction: Information TechnologyExperience level: Mid-Senior LevelIndustry: Information Services