Performance Engineer : Failover Testing(Onsite)

Cognizant North America
life insurance, parental leave, paid time off, paid holidays, 401(k)
United States, Illinois, Chicago
Apr 09, 2025
Performance Engineer : Failover Testing(Onsite) Cognizant Technology Solutions is seeking a "Performance Engineer : Failover Testing(Onsite)", to join our team of IT professionals in a permanent role. If you meet our background requirements and skills and are seeking an opportunity with these skills and expertise, here is the ideal opportunity for you! About Cognizant's QEA Practice: We are the largest Quality Assurance Practice Globally servicing 800+ Clients. We bring the industry leading vision and expertise to help with Quality Engineering transformation journey for our reputed clients. We provide Next Gen QA offerings like System Modernization assurance, Business Process Assurance, Quality Engineering, Cloud Platform Assurance, Customer Experience Assurance and Robotic Test Automation. We have been ranked #1 for Market Impact by Everest Group for four times in a row and ranked #1 for completeness of vision, test advisory and Digital Business Assurance in Gartner Magic Quadrant. Performance Engineer : Failover Testing(Onsite) Onsite Location : Chicago, IL Qualifications Professional experience as Performance Engineer with good hands-on experience in implementing high availability and disaster recovery solutions, failover strategies to optimize the performance and availability of applications. Mandatory Skills : Kubernetes, Splunk, JMeter Strong hands-on skills with test script development using JMeter. Experience in implementing performance tests (load/stress/endurance) using JMeter and performance monitoring using APM tools to identify performance issues. Hands-on experience in APM tools such as Dynatrace & AppDynamics to conduct root cause analysis for performance and scalability bottlenecks Able to analyze Splunk logs, Dynatrace distributed traces/AppDynamics snapshots, method hotspots and response-time hotspots to identify slow components and provide recommendations Experience in writing Splunk queries to extract relevant information from application logs and creation of Splunk Dashboards Experience in performance testing for Cloud (AWS) deployments, Kubernetes containerized applications and microservices. Candidate should have a good knowledge on Kubernetes deployments and commands Hands-on experience in crafting and implementing Chaos and failover test scenarios to measure and test for application resilience. Candidate should have a good knowledge on auto-scaling, circuit breakers, failover strategies and disaster recovery solutions Proven understanding on Java/Python, SQL query creation and manipulation skills Strong ability to track and contribute to technical discussions about application integration and high-availability, resilience and observability Individual Contributor with good communication skills Roles & Responsibilities Work with technical teams to analyze, design, and convert non functional requirements to performance engineering scenarios Track and contribute to technical discussions about application performance and high-availability, disaster recovery, failover, resilience and observability Has an oversight on application quality, automation, and guides the team to achieve key quality results Responsibilities include performance engineering, failover testing, chaos testing, performance monitoring & analysis Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a focus on root cause analysis, troubleshooting activities and driving proactive resolutions Helps to grow NFT Quality Test Strategy standards within the system/application and compatibility with the architecture of the platform Individual Contributor with highly developed communication skills Work Authorization Cognizant will only consider applicants for this position who are legally authorized to work in the United States without company sponsorship (H-1B, L-1B, L-1A, etc.) Salary and Other Compensation: Applications will be accepted until 4/25/25 The annual salary for this position is between $ 64,734/- to $ 102,500/- depending on experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate. This position is also eligible for Cognizant's discretionary annual incentive program, based on performance and subject to the terms of Cognizant's applicable plans Benefits: Cognizant offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements: Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off 401(k) plan and contributions Long-term/Short-term Disability Paid Parental Leave Employee Stock Purchase Plan #li-si2