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Performance Engineer, Quality Engineering Innovation and Automation

EY is a leader in serving the global financial services marketplace and the only professional services firm with a separate business unit dedicated to the financial services industry – the Financial Services Organization (FSO). Our focused model and bold ambition have put us at the center of the events that continue to reshape and redefine our industry, working side by side with a range of clients from our most venerable institutions to dynamic new entrants across Banking and Capital Markets, Wealth and Asset Management, Insurance, and Real Estate, Hospitality and Construction. Our purpose is to help build a financial services industry in which financial institutions are trusted and flourish, and the global economy is healthy, growing, and secure. If you have a passion for rallying together to solve complex challenges, then come join our dynamic FSO team!

The opportunity:

You have the opportunity to become a thought leader and change agent by applying your technical skill and innovative thinking to help our clients adopt performance engineering principles in their projects. You must stay on the leading edge of technology and use that technology to solve problems for our clients. Specifically, your mission will be to design, build, and deliver performance engineering services including performance architecture, performance diagnostics, performance testing and post-production scaling and resiliency. You will be expected to build strategies, tools, and integrations between existing tools and frameworks to provide new, cutting edge capabilities.

Your Key Responsibilities:

In this role, you will be a part of developing the scope and approach for performance engineering on your project, develop and implement tools, execute tests, perform in-depth analysis, and translate between business and technical audiences. You will need to ask better questions to truly understand our client’s “why” and develop better answers by drawing on your experience in consulting and technology.

1. Create and articulate innovative solutions that add value to our clients and differentiate EY

2. Be a champion for our thought leadership and leading capabilities internally and externally

3. Develop relationships and communicate effectively with client peers and executives

4. Look beyond deliverables to understand client needs and pain points

5. Use performance engineering tooling effectively

Skills and attributes for success:

To be successful, you must understand your purpose and passion and how to apply that to your work. This includes:

1. Being a passionate technologist, innovator, and solution builder

2. Take ownership of your power to impact the success of our clients and EY by living our purpose statement

3. Experience in conceptualizing, building, implementing and operationalizing technology solutions to work smarter

To qualify for the role, you must have

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field

• Good understanding of Performance Engineering concepts. The candidate should be able to implement performance strategy, and lead performance testing team.

• Technical experience with all aspects of the software lifecycle including design, architecture, development, and testing

• Experience in creative solutions leveraging easily accessible technology (cloud provider offerings, open-source technology, and common technology tooling)

• Experience using and creating event analytics views using Dynatrace, Splunk or similar tools

• Experience with component level and end to end performance testing

• Experience in Performance testing scripting using common protocols like – HTTP and Webservices/API

• Experience with UI performance optimization for web and mobile front-end applications.

• Exposure to load generation tools like JMeter, Microfocus Performance Center / LoadRunner, NeoLoad, SOASTA Junit, BlazeMeter, Silk Performer, Gatling or similar

• 4 years of hands-on experience in dealing with performance testing and engineering concepts such as:

• Understanding functional and non-functional requirements of multiple applications

• Conducting thorough analysis of requirements specifications and design documents and using structured techniques to identify testable conditions

• Experience in creating performance test strategy, design planning, workload modelling, and elicitation of non-functional requirements for testing

• Experience with Performance test execution, reporting, and results analysis

• Strong collaboration skills with Project and technology delivery teams in understanding the non-functional requirements and application performance SLAs

• Understanding of the distributed load test environments, and the application architecture

• Knowledge in Servers, network protocols including load-balancing, proxies, and firewalls, as well as Cloud Computing concepts for business continuity

• Familiar with statistical concepts: average, median, percentile, standard deviation

• Ability to perform and report on a Proof of Concept and tool selection exercise

• Scalability Testing and Capacity planning

• Batch Process Testing

• At least 4 years of experience performing diagnostics and results analysis:

• Application Performance Monitoring (APM) Tools – Dynatrace, New Relic, AppDynamics, Datadog or similar.

• Database Tools - Oracle Enterprise Manager, or other DB analytics tools, app server logs, etc.

• At least 4 years of experience in at least 1 of the below programming languages:

• Java

• C

• At least 4 years of experience in consulting

• Client relationship building and becoming their trusted advisors

• Executive communication

• Seeing problems as challenges and opportunities, not roadblocks

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Experience with Azure, Aws Cloud and setting up Performance Monitoring Tools.

• Consumer products experience also including prior consulting experience

• Relevant industry certification such as, ISTQB, LoadRunner Professional, Silk Performer, Apache JMeter Pro, Neotys Certified Expert, Dynatrace Associate, AppDynamics Certified or other specialized IT certifications

What we look for

We’re most interested in intellectually curious actuaries that also have great communication skills and can adapt quickly in the face of rapidly changing client needs.

What we offer you

At EY, we’ll develop you with future-focused skills and equip you with world-class experiences. We’ll empower you in a flexible environment, and fuel you and your extraordinary talents in a diverse and inclusive culture of globally connected teams. Learn more .

• We offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits package where you’ll be rewarded based on your performance and recognized for the value you bring to the business. The base salary range for this job in all geographic locations in the US is $101,500 to $186,000. The base salary range for New York City Metro Area, Washington State and California (excluding Sacramento) is $121,700 to $211,300. Individual salaries within those ranges are determined through a wide variety of factors including but not limited to education, experience, knowledge, skills and geography. In addition, our Total Rewards package includes medical and dental coverage, pension and 401(k) plans, and a wide range of paid time off options.

• Join us in our team-led and leader-enabled hybrid model. Our expectation is for most people in external, client serving roles to work together in person 40-60% of the time over the course of an engagement, project or year.

• Under our flexible vacation policy, you’ll decide how much vacation time you need based on your own personal circumstances. You’ll also be granted time off for designated EY Paid Holidays, Winter/Summer breaks, Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being.

Are you ready to shape your future with confidence? Apply today.

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