Title: Performance Engineer/Quality Assurance (QA) Location: Reston, VA/Chicago, IL/New York, NY/Atlanta, GA/Dallas, TX/San Francisco, CA Duration/Terms: Direct-Hire/Permanent (no visa sponsorship and no 3rd parties) Travel: 100 % (Monday Thursday) Thompson Technologies is seeking a Performance Engineer/QA Engineer for an exciting and fast-paced environment. This is a great opportunity to work with cutting edge technology, deliver high-quality solutions, work on a variety of projects ranging in both size and scope, and receive continuous training and gain rapid career progression. Responsibilities: Design, deliver, and optimize high-performing systems. Contribute to all aspects of the delivery life cycle in performance prototyping, capacity modelling, performance driven design, profiling, performance testing, availability management, and troubleshooting. Provide architecture and application design and development guidance that ensures scalability and minimizes performance issues. Comfortable operating on highly visible assignments, and dive deep into designs, application code, and frameworks, and ultimately provide clear insight and direction to business and IT stakeholders. Utilize diagnostic and monitoring tools to detect, isolate, and resolve performance issues throughout the technology stack. Qualifications: Minimum of 4 years of combined experience in any of the following: performance diagnostics, capacity planning, performance architecture design, performance tuning, performance monitoring, or code profiling. Minimum of 2 years of experience with planning and managing any of the following teams: performance diagnostic, capacity planning, performance architecture design, performance tuning, performance monitoring, or software development team. Minimum of 2 years of hands-on experience with any of the following profiling or diagnostics tools: CA/Wily Introscope, HP/Mercury Diagnostics, Mercury LoadRunner, Quest Performasure, Opnet Panorama, JInspired JXInsight, Compuware AppVantage, Borland Optimizeit, Yourkit, Quest JProbe, JProfiler, Symantec i3 for .NET, dynatrace Diagnostics, or Visual Studio Performance Tools. Excellent communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills. Minimum of a Bachelor's degree; degree in Computer Science, Engineering, MIS or Life Science preferred. Preferred Skills: Hands-on J2EE or .NET design and development of highly scalable applications or architecture frameworks. Resource usage monitoring for physical Servers, application Servers, or databases. Experience with planning and managing any of the following teams: performance diagnostic, capacity planning, performance architecture design, performance tuning, performance monitoring, or software development team. Ability to distill volumes of data, analyze performance results, and diagnose performance problems. Ability to clearly characterize system performance to stakeholders. Performance monitoring and integrated operational processes. Performance test planning, setup, and execution. Performance test Scripting and test data management. Capacity estimating, modelling, or planning. Application and architecture code profiling. Infrastructure and application performance tuning. Thompson Technologies has been named several times as one of the fastest-growing companies in the country by Inc. 500. We have recently been selected as one of Atlanta's 50 fastest growing companies by the Atlanta Business Chronicle! Our growth is due mainly to a partnering approach with our Clients. We are focused on making Clients successful, and we do it with honesty and integrity.


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