SAP Performance Engineer

As a Performance Engineer , the individual will need to work with development engineers and functional analysts, understand new cutting-edge software, and identify performance tuning opportunities. The individual will work on emerging technologies like BTP as they design and conduct performance tests. The individual should have in-depth knowledge and experience of performance testing, troubleshooting and analysis.

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 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/required experience:

• Minimum 3+ years of proven hands-on software testing experience.
• Strong experience in performance testing of SAP applications.
• 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, AppDynamics.
• Efficiently work with various profiling tools to identify performance bottlenecks.

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 SAP BTP platform.
• Strong understanding of BTP components like API management (APIM), Cloud Platform Integration (CPI) Conversational AI (CAI), Data Intelligence (SAP DI) and AWS storage services.
• Skilled in BTP technologies like Smart Data Integration (SDI) & Hana Sidecar.
• 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.
• Strong understanding of relational database systems as well as in-memory databases.
• Understanding of Algorithms and O-Notation
• Code management using Git or other VCS.

Behavioral Skills:

• Excellent Communication skills and collaboration skills
• Ability to propose and implement improvements in the system
• Ability to work with cross-functional stakeholders.