PERFORMANCE TEST ENGINEER
Cognizant is one of the world's leading professional services companies, transforming clients' business, operating, and technology models for the digital era. Our unique industry-based, consultative approach helps clients envision, build, and run more innovative and efficient businesses. Headquartered in the U.S., Cognizant, a member of the NASDAQ-100, is ranked 195 on the Fortune 500 and is consistently listed among the most admired companies in the world.
At Cognizant, together with your colleagues globally, you will collaborate on crafting solutions for prestigious companies and help them become more flexible, innovative, and successful. And this is your chance to join the success story: we are looking for Performance Test Engineers to join our Quality Assurance and Engineering practice.
About Cognizant Latvia and QA&E practice:
Cognizant Latvia focuses on delivering application development and application maintenance services to support its clients in becoming more digital. Riga Delivery Center with its dedicated, multilingual IT and telecom specialists is providing maintenance and support, cross-functional agile teams, and the capability to manage complex, large-scale transformation projects together with multi-country implementation and integration, making the center something of a one-stop-shop for businesses and IT competence.
Currently, in the practice, we are a team of ~ 30 people and we continue to grow and increase our QA knowledge and use modern automation and testing practices to give the best results to our clients. We work with multiple solutions and clients with the possibility to work with different tools, programming languages, and roles. Expanding our knowledge and giving clients not only the expected result but investing in giving automation and innovative solutions is our long-term goal.
Our ideal candidate:
• Minimum 5 years experience in performance test engineering
• Experience with NFRs of full-stack Legacy & Microservices architecture (Mainframe legacy architecture, Java-based headless applications, Javascript based Front-end applications, mobile apps)
• Experience in performance testing, analysis & reporting
• Experience in performance engineering (Isolated & Integrated Application Performance Testing, Microservices Testing, Network Performance Testing, Cache Performance Testing, and Performance Testing with Web Crawlers)
• Technology Skills
• Performance Testing Tools (LoadRunner, JMeter, K6, Gatling)
• Performance Monitoring Tools (AppDynamics, Dynatrace, Logging)
• Performance Testing in CI/CD
• Automated Performance Test Generation
• Workload Profiling
• On-Demand Performance Test Environment Creation
• Hands-on experience working with microservices in Kubernetes orchestration environment
• Service Virtualization
• SQL Tuning
• Soft Skills are a MUST HAVE ( Good Communication Skills, Understand Business Requirements, Coordinate between various platforms, data, coe & agile teams, Agile WoW, Documentation Skills, Quick Learner, Trainer)
What you can expect:
The competitive compensation package consists of a base salary of 2600 - 4200 EUR gross/ monthly. Please note that the offer for the final candidate will depend on the experience and competencies of the candidate for the required job.
• An annual bonus, and monetary recognition.
Benefits package that encourages healthy living, well-being, and desire to learn and grow:
• from the first working day available Life insurance and Health insurance plan which also include dentistry, pharmacy coverage, various sports;
• compensation of optical glasses or contact lenses up to 180 EUR;
• accessing a smartphone and mobile subscription, as well as free car parking or bike shelter;
• individual life coaching and mindfulness sessions;
• flexible working hours, and the ability to work from home;
• various learning platforms with over 50,000 self-paced courses, books, and other training resources;
• self-realization opportunities through outreach, committees, and communities.
Cognizant as a digital company, makes employee health and safety its top priority. With that in mind, we are implementing virtual hiring and work practices which means interviews will be conducted online.
