Performance Test Engineer III

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Basic Purpose

Seeking a Performance Test Engineer to support performance testing for agile projects that manage development and deployments using Azure DevOps. The candidate will support performance testing using Micro Focus Performance Center and other tools such as NeoLoad. The candidate will collaborate with DevOps engineers, developers, and network and cloud engineers to plan, design, and develop performance tests in support of DevOps and Continuous Integration Continuous Delivery (CICD) pipelines. The candidate will ensure all testing complies with Navy Federal policies, system requirements, standards, and best practices. The candidate will manage test planning and test cases using Azure Test Plans and will be responsible for testing web application User Interfaces, APIs, and participating in the development of performance test frameworks.

Required Skills:

•    Conduct performance engineering and testing activities for cloud, web-based, and client-server applications, and REST API and web services.
•    Experience in understanding non-functional requirements and designing test strategy and design.
•    Hand on performance testing experience with large scale on-premises and cloud native applications.
•    Significant experience performance testing with VuGen scripting and Performance Center. 
•    Hands on experience in web services testing including REST APIs.
•    Experience creating LoadRunner scripts using protocols such as web/HTTP/HTML and web services. 
•    Experience in using web services and REST API testing tools such as Postman and SoapUI.
•    Collaborate with delivery teams, developers, and testing teams to build integrated Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines.
•    Experience with monitoring tools such as CA APM, New Relic, AppDynamics, Dynatrace, DataDog, and AppInsights.
•    Experience with log monitoring tools such as Splunk.
•    Prior experience configuring performance testing in a CI/CD pipeline (Azure DevOps classic and release pipelines, Jenkins, or AWS Code pipelines)
•    Experience in monitoring architectural components of systems under test (e.g., client-side analysis, web, application, database and network layers). 

Desired Skills: 

•    Experience with NeoLoad, JMeter, or similar tools.
•    Experience in programming languages such as C, C++, or Java
•    Selenium - High level 
•    SQL Queries - High level
•    AWR Report Analysis
•    JVM Internals (e.g., Garbage Collection)
•    Linux Commands
•    Client-side analysis Tools (WebPageTest, Google Lighthouse, Sitespeed.io) 

Hours: Monday - Friday, 8:00 - 4:30pm

Location: 820 Follin Lane, Vienna, VA 22180 | 5550 Heritage Oaks Dr Pensacola, FL 32526 | 141 Security Dr. Winchester, VA 22602 

*Due to COVID-19 and social distancing, this position will be temporarily working from home with plans to return to campus at the desired location listed once Navy Federal is back to normal operations. The specific logistics for returning to campus will be determined at a future date by individual leadership. 

Salary: Navy Federal Credit Union assesses market data to establish salary ranges that enable us to remain
competitive. You are paid within the salary range, based on your experience, location and market position.

The salary range for this position is: $83,100 to $142,000 Annual Salary

Equal Employment Opportunity

Navy Federal values, celebrates, and enacts diversity in the workplace.  Navy Federal takes affirmative action to employ and advance in employment qualified individuals with disabilities, disabled veterans, Armed Forces service medal veterans, recently separated veterans, and other protected veterans.  EOE/AA/M/F/Veteran/Disability

COVID-19 Vaccine Information

As a COVID-19 safety measure, our employees must either provide proof of COVID-19 vaccination or follow additional safety protocols, including testing.

Disclaimer

Navy Federal reserves the right to fill this role at a higher/lower grade level based on business need. An assessment may be required to compete for this position.

Bank Secrecy Act

Remains cognizant of and adheres to Navy Federal policies and procedures, and regulations pertaining to the Bank Secrecy Act.

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