Staff Quality Performance Engineer

Company Description
It all started in sunny San Diego, California in 2004 when a visionary engineer, Fred Luddy, saw the potential to transform how we work. Fast forward to today - ServiceNow stands as a global market leader, bringing innovative AI-enhanced technology to over 8,100 customers, including 85% of the Fortune 500®. Our intelligent cloud-based platform seamlessly connects people, systems, and processes to empower organizations to find smarter, faster, and better ways to work. But this is just the beginning of our journey. Join us as we pursue our purpose to make the world work better for everyone.
Job Description
DT Testing Services - Performance Engineering

• Performance lead driving Improvements in performance, scalability and reliability of DT ServiceNow applications
• Work within agile software development process, certify applications, upgrade for release readiness in terms of performance, scalability and reliability
• Benchmark key business flows against production scale infrastructures, data volume and concurrency to simulate large customers
• Review customer usage patterns, customer logged performance defects and enhance performance test coverage based on gaps identified. Proactively suggest performance use cases and data loads for testing
• Create infrastructure, automation, and tools that drive realistic loads against the core services of our platform
• Architect and drive complex performance engineering projects that measure the characteristics of systems running under dynamic, real-world workloads
• Log and track performance bugs, collect and report performance metrics
• Support engineering organizations in troubleshooting or addressing issues with performance environments, maintain test branches and support merge activities
• Stay up-to-date with latest developments in the industry on performance testing practices and apply them in performance testing initiatives. Learn quickly when facing new situations, apply new concepts and principles to address problems
• Enable peers in engineering,TPM and cloud teams to leverage tools built to provide related services

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience with 2+ years of experience in architecting and driving performance testing / engineering projects and solutions. Proven experience with concurrency, multithreading, and distributed system architectures
• Strong hands-on technical skills and experience in developing performance testing strategy, performance testing process in enterprise software platforms and applications
• Strong communication skills and ability to work with professionalism, integrity, passion, and accountability in a globally distributed hybrid work environment
• Proven skills in JMeter/NeoLoad or other industry standard performance testing frameworks
• Strong skills in profiling, monitoring & root cause analysis of performance issues
• Exposure to monitoring and reporting frameworks such as Splunk, Grafana, InfluxDB, ELK/Kibana
• Highly skilled in DB SQLs, analyzing performance issues at DB layer and recommending solutions
• Skilled in scripting / programming with languages such as Java, Java Script, Python , Shell scripts
• Ability to carry out root cause analysis of complex performance issues, analyze results and recommend solutions
• Solid understanding and experience with agile software development methodologies
• Ability and experience in working with globally distributed cross-functional teams to drive results
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills with an aptitude for learning new technologies
• BS/MS Degree in Computer Science or equivalent with proven experience in performance testing/engineering for mission critical software products & services

Additional Information
Work Personas
We approach our distributed world of work with flexibility and trust. Work personas (flexible, remote, or required in office) are categories that are assigned to ServiceNow employees depending on the nature of their work and their assigned work location. Learn more here . To determine eligibility for a work persona, ServiceNow may confirm the distance between your primary residence and the closest ServiceNow office using a third-party service.
Equal Opportunity Employer
ServiceNow is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin or nationality, ancestry, age, disability, gender identity or expression, marital status, veteran status, or any other category protected by law. In addition, all qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with legal requirements.
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