Sr. Performance Test Engineer : Oracle ( Bangalore )

Oracle EPM, is the leader in the Finance, Performance and Analysis market according to Gartner.  Our Performance PSR team ensures that every release improves in performance or identifies any product area where perfornance degrades.  We also test new features to understand how they will perform when customers use them.

Responsibilities:

 At a high-level, the candidate will work closely with the PSR, Development and Product Management team to gather information to build and run regression tests for new features and resolve customer performance issues as necessary.   Working directly with the Developers and Product Management to understand requirements and then use that information to implement tests in a scripting language for automated load testing to produce actionable information for analysis and subsequent review with Developers is our primary objective.  The information provided to the Developers enables them to quickly identify and implement solutions to performance problems.

Being a self-motivated, team player, eager to contribute to the performance, scalability and reliability of our software is very important.  Other important qualities are completing work quickly and proactively seeking out new work when nearing completion of tasks and persistent when facing obstacles, seeking out solutions until they find one that works well.

The performance work is highly technical, requiring a firm understanding of computer architecture and programming principles in order to analyze test results for bottlenecks.  This work also requires coding skills in order to create complex load testing scripts that may need detailed parameterization to ensure different simulated users access unique datasets and maintain proper session information. 

The tests scripts may require manual correlations and parameterizations, checkpoints and sync points for every transaction. 

The Candidate will be able to execute different type of tests such as response time, scalability and uptime with different usage patterns.

The Candidate will participate in technical discussions with Development leads about the causes of performance issues and possible solutions.

Skill Sets:

Can understand the business processes our products support and how to best test them in a realistic process. 

Ability to understand how to read EPM services logging to debug performance issues.

Ability to investigate slow executions and scalability issues in EPM at the WebLogic, Essbase, Relational and Services level.  Understanding how to work with various tools to identify and resolve bottlenecks are also important, for example, Fiddler and JRocket. 

Understand the use of profiling tools such as JFR recordings

Ability to analyze heap dumps and GC logs through GC verbose tools

Expertise in most of the following technologies:

Scripting languages like LoadRunner, OATs, PERL or SH scripts.

Development experience in XML technologies (XML, XSD, XSLT etc.)

Web services (REST, SOAP) development experience

Object-oriented analysis and design

Relational database design and strong SQL knowledge, knowledge of industry leading RDBMS systems.

Working experience in on-demand application's deployment, security, performance, scalability area

Exp : 7-14 Yrs