Senior Associate

Job Description/ Responsibilities Responsibilities:
• Define, develop and apply performance/scalability benchmarks.
• Work in cross-functional teams to characterize, debug, and improve system performance and scalability.
• Work efficiently with various profiling tools to identify performance bottlenecks and provide root cause analysis.
• Devise and conduct experiments to evaluate the performance impacts of system changes.
• Plan and execute performance tests using an automated testing environment and conduct analysis of results.
• Participate in architecture and design reviews of complex solutions in cross-team engineering efforts and own quality perspectives for the design.

Must-Have Experience:
• Minimum 3+ years of proven hands-on software performance testing experience.
• Strong experience in performance testing of SAP applications.
• Candidate must have experience working on Brown or Green field S/4 HANA implementations
• Strong knowledge of one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, Perl, ABAP, Java, C++).
• Experience in performance testing tools - LoadRunner Enterprise, Apache JMeter, SoapUI, Postman.
• Experience in data analysis and visualization, end-to-end performance, and root cause analysis.
• Experience in service-oriented architecture, and RESTful APIs.
• Strong knowledge of performance-tuning SQL queries.
• Extensive hands-on experience with JVM tuning techniques.
• Experience with application performance monitoring tools like Dynatrace, and AppDynamics.
• Efficiently work with various profiling tools to identify performance bottlenecks.
Following experience is a plus / Nice to have
• Working knowledge of Agile or Scrum software development methodologies.
• Experience in Cloud-based platforms like AWS and GCP.
• Expertise in performance assessment and optimization of complex applications built on the SAP BTP platform.
• Strong understanding of BTP components like API management (APIM), SAP Integration Suit, Conversational AI (CAI), Data Intelligence (SAP DI), and AWS storage services.
• Skilled in BTP technologies like Smart Data Integration (SDI).
• Strong experience in performance testing and analysis of SCP iOS SDK mobile apps.
• Proficient in application & DB performance monitoring in SAP BTP using Kibana, HANA DB cockpit and SAP BTP cockpit.
• Understanding of basic Machine Learning algorithms & principles.
• Strong understanding of relational database systems as well as in-memory databases.
• Understanding of Algorithms and O-Notation.
• Code management using Git.

What are the top 3 skills required for this role?
1. SAP performance testing/engineering
2. HANA performance testing
3. LoadRunner

Additional Information:
• Bachelor's degree in mathematics, Computer Science, Engineering, or other relevant major.
• Certifications like AWS Solutions Architect and GCP Associate Cloud Engineer are a plus.