Artech is the 10th Largest IT Staffing Company in the US, according to Staffing Industry Analysts' 2012 annual report. Artech provides technical expertise to fill gaps in clients' immediate skill-sets availability, deliver emerging technology skill-sets, refresh existing skill base, allow for flexibility in project planning and execution phases, and provide budgeting/financial flexibility by offering contingent labor as a variable cost.

Job Description:

Job Title: Performance Test Engineer
Location: Minneapolis MN, Des Moines, Atlanta GA and Charlotte NC
Duration: 12 plus months

Looking for W2 candidates

Required Skills

• Technical Experience (prefer 5 or more years' experience)
• Ability to troubleshoot/debug scripts
• Performance Testing
• Testing Tools (ALM PC 12, LoadRunner, VuGen 12 , Analysis 12)
• Programming Languages (C, C++, Java, Java Script, XML, JSON, .NET)
• DB skills (Oracle, MySQL)
• Multiple monitoring tools (App Dynamics, OpTier, Introscope, Splunk, Teleran)
• Multiple Protocols (SOAP, UI, Web HTTP/HTML, Web Services, Java Vuser, TruClient)
• MS Office (Outlook, Lync, LiveMeeting, Excel, Word, PPT, Visio)
• Development, execution, and maintenance of test scripts and scenarios; evaluation, analysis, and documentation of performance results.
• Effectively communicate performance results to application owners and management.
• Provide feedback and recommendations to project/development teams and management for capacity planning and production performance improvements
• create clear documentation for test plans, test strategies, data flows, step documents, scripts, and scenarios; research and planning for performance testing of applications that are new to SPLI testing
• Work with diverse teams/partners located across US and India
• Communication – written and oral
• Self-starter – assertive and highly motivated
• Work flexible hours during execution phase (nights/weekends)

Preferred Skills

• Large Financial institution experience

Responsibilities/Task

• Acts as a lead in providing application design guidance and consultation, utilizing a thorough understanding of applicable technology, tools, and existing designs
• Analyses highly complex business requirements, designs and writes technical specifications to design or redesign complex computer platforms and applications
• Provides coding direction to less experienced staff or develops highly complex original code
• Acts as an expert technical resource for modelling, simulation, and analysis efforts
• Verifies program logic by overseeing the preparation of test data, testing, and debugging of programs
• Oversees overall systems testing and the migration of platforms and applications to production
• Develops new documentation, departmental technical procedures, and user guides
• Leads projects, allocates and manages resources and manages the work of less experienced staff
• Assures quality, security and compliance requirements are met for supported area and oversees
• Creation of or updates to and testing of the business continuation plan
• Responsible for the creation, customization, development, programming and maintenance of performance test scripts and libraries using Client Performance Center testing tool
• Responsible for evaluation, analysis, and documentation of assigned performance testing
• Provide technical guidance of performance testing to application developers, architects, business partners and management

For more information, Please contact

Pavithra P

973 507 7535 

pavithra.p(at)artechinfo.com