Performance Test Engineer

About DMI

DMI (Digital Management, LLC.), the world’s first end-to-end mobility company, combines all the skills and services necessary to deliver mobile enterprise solutions. Built to reinvent business through mobility, DMI has expertise in mobile strategy, UX, web, and app development, omni-channel commerce, brand and marketing, IoT and big data analytics, and secure device and app management. The company’s unique, integrated approach to mobility has resulted in dramatic growth as well as an expanding client base, which includes hundreds of Fortune 1000 commercial clients and all fifteen U.S. Federal Departments. DMI is headquartered in Bethesda, MD, with satellite offices around the world. The company was named one of the 2018 Top Workplaces in the Washington, DC area by The Washington Post and received Inc. Magazine’s Hire Power Award as one of the top 100 Private Job Creators in the US. Additional information is available at www.dminc.com and on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.

About the Opportunity

DMI is currently seeking to hire a Performance Test Engineer to support a Federal Government customer in the DC metro area. This Performance Engineer will provide support for an enterprise web-based system.

Description

• Conducts system performance evaluation to ensure system reliability, capacity, and scalability.
• Support and assist with Infrastructure profiling to find bottlenecks at the Infrastructure level.
• Experience in windows server performance evaluation, and IIS configurations. Evaluate application performance at the server level.
• Experience in troubleshooting application integration issues with windows server and the underlying network.
• Experience in Azure infrastructure, a plus
• Work with the testing team to develop performance plans and baselines. Analyzes results and coordinates with development teams for bug fixes.
• Generates performance summary reports for management review for system baseline. Analyzes the root causes of performance issues and work with the maintenance development team to provide corrective actions.
• Suggests new tools and techniques improve the overall performance of the system by developing prototypes.
• Monitor technology improvements, recommend upgrades, and evaluate alternatives across on-premises and cloud IT infrastructures, both virtual and physical.
• Monitors application performance during performance tests or production usage using monitoring tools such as Splunk to isolate the fault domain, dive deep into application code, and identify the root cause of performance issues.
• Plan and manage deliverables for performance diagnostic, capacity planning, performance architecture design, performance tuning, and performance monitoring.
• Collaborate with QA, Development, DevOps, Security, and Architecture teams to ensure proper, defined performance specifications are maintained.

Qualifications

Basic Qualification

• At least 8 years of professional work experience; minimum of 6 years experience in a Performance Engineer role.
• Experience with industry-leading Load testing tool for .NET applications with options for multiple browsers, Intel physical-server, and Cloud-based infrastructures.
• Must demonstrate experience with memory dump analysis, HP Performance Center (Loadrunner), Jmeter, Windows, Linux, Middle-ware components, and advanced system debugging.
• Familiarity with monitoring products such as Splunk, Splunk ITSI, and Splunk Machine Learning Toolkit is desired.
• Should employ Test-driven development practice in day to day activities
• Demonstratable competencies in Azure Architecture, design, and performance tuning.
• Demonstratable competencies in Windows Server & SQL Server Architecture, design, and performance tuning.

Physical Requirement(s): N/A

Location: Tyson, VA/Remote

Min. Citizenship Status Required: Perm Resident (US Citizen preferred)

Location: McLean, VA/Remote

Working at DMI

DMI is a diverse, prosperous and rewarding place to work. Being part of the DMI family means we care about your wellbeing. As such, we offer a variety of perks and benefits that help met various interests and needs, while still having the opportunity to work directly with a number of our award winning, Fortune 1000 clients. The following categories make up your DMI wellbeing:

• Community – Blood drives, volunteering opportunities, Holiday parties, summer picnics, Tech Chef, Octoberfest just to name a few ways DMI comes together as a community.
• Convenience/Concierge - Virtual visits through health insurance, pet insurance, commuter benefits, discount tickets for movies, travel and many other items to provide convenience.
• Development – Annual Performance management, continuing education and tuition assistance, internal job opportunities along with career enrichment and advancement to help each employee with their professional and personal development.
• Financial – Generous 401k match for both pre-tax and post-tax (ROTH) contributions along with financial wellness education, EAP, Life Insurance and Disability help provide financial stability for each DMI employee.
• Recognition – Great achievements do not go unnoticed by DMI through Annual Awards ceremony, service anniversaries, peer-to-peer acknowledgement through Give-A-Wow, employee referral bonuses.
• Wellness – Healthcare benefits, Wellness programs, Flu Shots, Biometric screenings, on-site lactation rooms provide employees with several wellness options. 

Employees are valued for their talents and contributions. We all take pride in helping our customers achieve their goals, which in turn contributes to the overall success of the company.

The company does and will take affirmative action to employ and advance in employment individuals with disabilities and protected veterans, and to treat qualified individuals without discrimination on the basis of their physical or mental disability or veteran status. DMI is an Equal Opportunity Employer Minority/Female/Veterans/Disability. DMI maintains a drug-free workplace.

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Applicants selected may be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information. US citizenship may be required for some positions.

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