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Performance Engineer
- Mississauga, ON, Canada
$60 to $73 CAD / hour · Contract
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Job details
- Pay
- $60 to $73 CAD / hour
- Job type
- Contract
- Closing date
- Experience
- Approximately 6+ years of Performance Testing/Engineering experience
- Posting language
- English
- Posted
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Performance Engineer
Rate: $60–$73/hour
Duration: 12-month contract
Location: Mississauga, ON
Work Model: Hybrid, currently 2 days onsite
Hours: Monday–Friday, core business hours
Extension/Conversion: Possible
Role Overview
Our client is seeking an experienced Performance Engineer to support enterprise technology initiatives. The role will focus on end-to-end performance engineering, including requirements, scripting, execution, analysis, troubleshooting and performance optimization.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and execute performance testing scripts and scenarios using JMeter
- Conduct large-scale performance, load and scalability testing
- Use Dynatrace for deep-dive monitoring, analysis and bottleneck identification
- Gather and assess non-functional requirements (NFRs)
- Analyze application, database and infrastructure performance
- Troubleshoot performance issues and recommend tuning and optimization strategies
- Partner with developers, architects and operations teams to drive performance improvements
- Produce clear performance analysis and reporting
Must-Have Qualifications
- Approximately 6+ years of Performance Testing/Engineering experience
- Strong hands-on JMeter expertise
- Strong Dynatrace monitoring and analysis experience
- End-to-end performance testing and engineering experience
- Strong understanding of NFRs, system architecture and technology stacks
- Hands-on performance tuning and optimization experience
- Previous experience within banking or financial services
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting and communication skills
Nice to Have
- Splunk, Datadog and log analysis
- SRE, observability or Chaos Engineering exposure
- Test data management and service virtualization
- Mountebank
- Client-side/end-user performance testing
- Previous experience within a large financial institution
Ideal Profile: A hands-on Performance Engineer with strong JMeter and Dynatrace expertise who can go beyond test execution to diagnose bottlenecks, troubleshoot complex performance issues and drive application and infrastructure optimization.
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Responsibilities
The Performance Engineer will develop and execute performance testing scripts while conducting large-scale load and scalability tests. They will also collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify bottlenecks and implement performance optimization strategies.
Requirements
Candidates must have approximately 6+ years of experience in performance engineering with strong expertise in JMeter and Dynatrace. Previous experience within the banking or financial services sector is required.
Skills
- Performance Engineering
- JMeter
- Dynatrace
- Performance Testing
- Load Testing
- Scalability Testing
- Non-functional Requirements
- System Architecture
- Performance Tuning
- Troubleshooting
- Database Performance
- Infrastructure Performance
- Splunk
- Datadog
- Chaos Engineering
- Service Virtualization
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Categories
- Technology
- Software
- Engineering
- Finance & Accounting
- Consulting
Keywords
- Performance Engineer
- JMeter
- Dynatrace
- Performance Testing
- Load Testing
- Scalability Testing
- Non-functional Requirements
- NFRs
- System Architecture
- Performance Tuning
- Optimization
- Splunk
- Datadog
- Chaos Engineering
- Service Virtualization
- Mountebank
- SRE
- Observability
- Financial Services
- Banking
- Infrastructure
- Database Performance
- Test Data Management
- End-to-end Testing
- Bottleneck Identification