ICE · 2 weeks ago
Senior Performance Test Engineer
Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (ICE) is seeking a results-oriented, self-motivated individual for its Capacity and Performance Management team. The successful candidate will design and execute performance, capacity, and failover tests of ICE’s Clearing Enterprise technology platform, ensuring systems meet goals for reliability, scalability, capacity, and performance.
Responsibilities
Build and enhance performance testing harnesses, informed by real production traffic, to enable reliable measurement and profiling
Act as a Performance Testing and Engineering expert and review the performance of existing systems; provide clear, data-backed recommendations
Build and maintain Performance Engineering KPI Dashboards
Determine the root cause of hotspots or bottlenecks—whether inefficient use of a programming language, operating system resources, GC/heap, I/O etc
Evaluate areas for performance optimization and provide recommendations; drive fixes with dev/ops and validate improvements
Create custom tools / script to simplify/automate repeatable routine tasks
Certify—conceptually and via test execution—each component’s reliability and failover capabilities
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree or equivalent in Computer Science
5+ years' experience in the IT industry working in Java development and/or performance testing and tuning of high-volume, transactional systems
Proficiency with Java, Oracle Database and scripting tools such Python, Groovy, Linux Shell
Proficient in analyzing code at a micro level; naturally curious with strong troubleshooting skills
Excellent ability in analyzing Heap Dumps, Thread Dumps, GC logs, event logs, and application stack traces to find performance root causes
Proficiency in load generation frameworks like JMeter and Gatling
Good verbal and written communication skills. Ability to work well with application development team leads and architects is key criterion. You will need to speak and understand technical leads and architects of our enterprise transactional Java systems, to be able to influence design and code changes based on test outcomes
Preferred
Understanding of automation frameworks like Selenium and TestNG is a plus
Company
ICE
We are building the largest jewelry marketplace.
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Funding
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Late StageTotal Funding
$49MKey Investors
Polaris Partners
2017-12-07Acquired
2016-03-15Series Unknown
2015-07-01Seed· $2M
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