Cognizant Technology Solutions is currently seeking a highly skilled Sr. Performance Architect who will be responsible for leading a large strategic delivery with responsibility including end to end performance testing & engineering.

Are you ready to be a change-maker? At Cognizant, we believe those who challenge the way they work today will lead the way tomorrow!

Ability to work independently and remotely, with willingness travel for client engagements as needed.

Responsibilities:

• Performance Requirement gathering - Responsible for gathering NFR by collaborating with various business team and architects. Analyze the performance requirements to assess the capacity requirement, performance, reliability, and scalability of the applications being evaluated for its compatibility and baseline
• Performance test strategy and design – Responsible for creating performance test strategy based on the requirement provided. Should be able to design Load, Scalability, Reliability, Failover and Endurance tests to simulate projected production load. Develop performance test requirements to ensure critical software and infrastructure components are performance tested in peak load.
• Performance Test execution, monitoring and analysis – Responsible for performance test execution, creating performance evaluation and analysis reports detailing the root cause for the performance bottlenecks along with tuning recommendations.
• Performance Engineering - Involve in application source code profiling, analyzing the performance hotspots, thread dump and heap dumps. Provide recommendations for problematic scenarios to improve performance using inbuilt JVM tools and also using APM tools like dynaTrace, AppDynamics, etc.
• Involve in workload modelling, analyzing, and tuning the performance characteristics of a system to plan infrastructure capacity for future releases and rollouts
• Architecture - Involve in architecture review, code review, database design review, query optimization and provide effective solutions
• Monitor end to end performance using the APM tools like dynaTrace and provide component level response times at each layer and provide tuning recommendations

Required Skills/Qualifications:

• Graduate (Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or in “STEM” Majors or related field)
• Should have 12+ years experience in Non-Functional Requirement validation, performance test design, test execution and analysis support and providing recommendations to resolve performance/scalability issues
• Should have excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Should be able to work with customers independently
• Should have working experience in architecture review, code review, database design review, query optimization.
• Proficient with Neoload for performance test scripting and execution
• Should have experience in capacity planning and provide infrastructure level recommendation.
• Expert is application performance monitoring leveraging AppDynamics/Dynatrace

Preferred Skills/Qualification:

• Experience with performance testing of cloud application. Cloud certification is preferred.
• Experience in setting up CI/CD pipelines

Home office setup (network, phone, etc.) Our strength is built on our ability to work together. Our diverse backgrounds offer different perspectives and new ways of thinking. It encourages lively discussions, inspires thought leadership, and helps us build better solutions for our clients. We want someone who thrives in this setting and is inspired to craft meaningful solutions through true collaboration.

If you are comfortable with ambiguity, excited by change, and excel through autonomy, we’d love to hear from you.

Job Location : Richardson, Texas, United States || Chicago, Illinois, United States

Employee Status : Full Time Employee

Shift : Day Job

Travel : Yes, 25 % of the Time

Job Posting : May 12 2023

Cognizant (Nasdaq-100: CTSH) is one of the world's leading professional services companies, transforming clients' business, operating and technology models for the digital era. Our unique industry-based, consultative approach helps clients envision, build and run more innovative and efficient businesses. Headquartered in the U.S., Cognizant is ranked 185 on the Fortune 500 and is consistently listed among the most admired companies in the world. Learn how Cognizant helps clients lead with digital at www.cognizant.com or follow us @USJobsCognizant.

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