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Locals Only Urgent Need Performance Engineer

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USM Business Systems Inc. is a quickly developing worldwide System Integrator, Software and Product Development, IT Outsourcing and Technology assistance supplier headquartered in Chantilly, VA. We offer world-class ability in giving most astounding quality and administrations through industry best practices planned to convey remarkable worth to our customers.

Established in 1999, the organization has corner qualities in building and dealing with a Business Oriented IT environment with rich involvement in technology innovation, ERP and CRM counselling, Product Engineering, Business Intelligence, Data Management, SOA, BPM, Data Warehousing, SharePoint Consulting and IT Infrastructure.

USM, a US ensured Minority Business Enterprise (MBE), is recognized as one of the fastest developing IT Systems Integrator in the Washington, DC zone. We are a project-driven firm that reliably meets the IT needs of our State and Government customers through development and business keenness.

Position: Performance Engineer

Location: San Francisco CA (Locals Only)

Duration: 6-12 Months

Responsibilities:

1. Provide accurate scoping, clear strategies, and milestones for performance tests.
2. Analyze performance results to identify bottlenecks and suggest optimizations.
3. Participate in discussions and planning with Development.
4. Design and implement overhead, scalability, stability, and stress tests using industry standard tools and custom developed software written in Java.
5. Review automation implementations and encourage sound design principles.
6. Review test plans, results analysis, and capacity planning guides for inflight releases.
7. Work closely with the Production Success Performance Team to provide product and automation expertise for use in patches, research projects, sizing, and capacity planning.
8. Coordinate technical presentations and training for capacity planning guides.
9. Report weekly trends highlighting product performance and team status against committed milestones and projects.

Experience/Skills Required:

1. 6-8 years' experience in Performance Engineering.
2. 4+ years of experience with Databases and SQL.
3. 4+ years of benchmark testing, performance analysis using industry standard benchmarks.
4. 4+ years of programming experience in Java, C++, C#.
5. Software development experience with a distinguished track record on technically demanding projects.
6. Outstanding attention to detail and communication skills.
7. Ability to analyze/interpret technical data.
8. Ability to identify/resolving system bottlenecks.
9. Ability to identify potential limitations in software architectures.
10. Ability to write clear and concise technical documents.
11. Troubleshooting and reasoning skills.
12. Understanding of throughput, latency, memory and CPU utilization.
13. Working knowledge of TCP/IP, networking topology, routers, switches.
14. Working knowledge of Network packet sniffers (e.g. TcpDump, Network Monitor, WinDump, EtherPeek, Observer).
15. Working knowledge of operating system design/tuning (e.g. Linux, Solaris).
16. Working knowledge of database tuning and administration (e.g. Oracle, DB2).
17. Working knowledge of HTTP load generation/measurement software (e.g. LoadRunner, JMeter, Grinder, Fiddler, Firebug).
18. Bachelor's Degree in CS or any engineering discipline.
19. Familiar with Application servers (e.g. Resin, Weblogic, WebSphere, JBoss).
20. Familiar with J2EE Technologies (e.g. JSP, Servlets, EJB, WebServices, SOA).
21. Familiar with Java Debugging/Monitoring Software (e.g. JProbe, Dynatrace, Introscope).
22. Familiar with Oracle SQL/PL SQL query plan analysis/tuning, contention/locking analysis and tuning.
23. Familiar with Oracle clustering technologies (e.g. RAC, Grid, OPS).
24. Familiar with Open Source Automation Frameworks (e.g. STAF).
25. Familiar with Appliance Load Generators (e.g. Spirant Avalanche).

If my requirement matches your resume, then please do reply on my email id alih(at) usmsystems(dot)com and contact no is 703-###-####.