Advanced Performance Engineer - (Multiple positions available) at Kroger Tech & Digital

Posted in General Business 22 days ago.

Type: Full-Time
Location: Blue Ash, Ohio





Job Description:

Measure, analyze, plan, and execute production-like simulations across mobile and web solutions to identify and remediate performance problems, prevent production outages, and guarantee predictable performance. Identify key technologies and architectures to creatively scale and improve code base performance, reduce resource consumption, and shorten request latency. Monitor application performance during performance tests or production usage using APM and other monitoring tools to isolate the fault domain, dive deep into application code, and identify root cause of performance issues. Monitor resource usage for physical servers, application servers and databases to drive optimization changes in production environment. Collaborate with development leads and project team to review and refine application NFRs, SLAs, & KPIs to create acceptance criteria and performance budgets necessary to measure, validate, and improve performance. Profile application performance from end-user perspective to inventory performance concerns and suggest tuning opportunities across the application stack. Interact with project teams, development, operations, and infrastructure resources to recommend solutions to remediate performance issues. Distill volumes of data, analyze performance results, diagnose performance problems, and clearly characterize system performance to stakeholders. Develop shift left performance practices, including execution of performance tests in Continuous Integration & Delivery pipeline. Execute end-user performance tests using selenium or similar automation tools to capture performance metrics on browser & mobile devices. Contribute learnings and experiences to the Kroger Performance Center of Excellence (CoE). Duties may be located at any Kroger Co. office throughout U.S. Telecommuting from home office is authorized pursuant to company policy.MINIMUM POSITION QUALIFICATIONS:


  • Bachelor's degree (or foreign educational equivalent) in Computer Science or a closely related information technology field
  • 8+ years of experience in software product development and delivery
  • 3+ years of experience in performance testing/engineering
  • Any amount of experience in REST/Soap Web services with knowledge in API documentation such as Swagger
  • Any amount of experience in Web server, Application server and Database performance tuning
  • Any amount of experience in analyzing error and system logs of Web and Application Server, Heap Dump, Thread Dump during failure to determine the cause of failure
  • Any amount of experience in SQL programming and SQL, NoSQL & graph databases
  • Any amount of experience in Git usage and concepts
  • Any amount of experience using load testing tools such as Neoload, JMeter, LoadRunner or similar industry tools
  • Any amount of experience with application performance monitoring tools such as Dynatrace, New Relic, or AppDynamics
  • Any amount of experience in Web Applications and Services using JAVA/JAVA EE, Spring or other related technologies
  • Any amount of experience with automated testing in a cloud environment
  • Any amount of experience creating test data and utilizing test data management tools
  • Any experience may have been gained concurrently





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