Sr. Performance Engineer

Alation continues to hire for roles at various locations with all interviewing and on-boarding done virtually due to COVID-19 crisis. Everyone new to the Alation team, along with our current workforce, will temporarily work from home until it is safe to return to our offices.

Alation pioneered the data catalog market and today is leading its evolution into a platform for a broad range of data intelligence solutions including data search & discovery, data governance, and digital transformation. Nearly 200 enterprises drive data culture, improve decision making, and realize business outcomes with Alation. For more information, visit https://www.alation.com/

Alation is seeking a talented and experienced Senior Performance Test Engineer to join our QA team in Chennai.

Responsibilities:

• Work with development teams that are building our software to generate production workloads and tools to understand and characterize system performance and scalability
• Understand system architecture to isolate and layout limitations/problem areas
• Own development of automated performance test framework
• Establish and define performance baseline, monitor/analyze/catalog the results and ensure that our product hits defined target goals for performance
• Work with the engineering team, customer support, and field engineers to find and analyze performance bottlenecks and initiate discussions about improvements in architecture and underlying code
• Identify and recommend performance testing tools. Install, configure, and implement performance testing tools in a web cloud or N-Tiered application environment for custom developed or packaged software applications and systems.

Desired Qualification and Skills:

• Degree in computer science (e.g., a CS degree or extensive experience)
• 7+ years industry experience in Performance testing
• Experience testing APIs/Microservices and Data platforms
• Skilled with object-oriented scripting languages such as Python
• Good knowledge of database systems and query execution methods
• Extensive experience using JMeter. Experience with other tools like Tsung, Locust, Gatling are nice to have.
• Experience with AWS, Linux
• Experience with Fiddler, Wireshark, or other network packet capture tools are nice to have.
• Experience with agile development methodology
• Understanding of throughput, latency, memory and CPU utilization
• Ability to narrow down root cause of performance bottlenecks on both frontend and backend
• Solid knowledge on performance, the core principles and methodologies

More About Alation
Our founders have come together from different backgrounds: business, engineering, and design. This unique mix from our founding team is important to the Alation culture story. Today, our team consists of creators and communicators with varied backgrounds - from Stanford, to the Indian Institute of Technology, big companies and one-person startups, the United States, and abroad. We continue to seek ever more diverse perspectives as we grow.

Why Alation?

• Market-Leading Data Catalog Provider
• High-growth, collaborative environment with diverse and inclusive teams
• Continuous learning, enrichment and development opportunities
• Competitive pay and health offerings
• Flexible time off to relax and recharge and much, much more!