Senior Software Engineer

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About The Role

Senior Performance Test Engineer, Warwick or Wokingham, Permanent

The world of energy is adapting at an incredible pace. Energy is vital to every aspect of our lives. But as we look to the future, we must make the shift towards cleaner, renewable energy to both power and preserve our world. Between 1990 and 2020 we reduced our carbon emissions by 70% and are committed to helping the UK achieving carbon neutral status by 2050.

We are currently seeking an innovative, adaptable, and results-oriented professional to be part of Solutions Engineering team as a Senior Performance Test Engineer. You will be responsible to execute the performance engineering activities aligned to SDLC and will work closely with product engineering teams to understand the performance and other non-functional requirements on our platforms.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver against performance engineering goals.
• Execute Performance Engineering and Testing activities in SDLC leveraging Agile methodology and understand the importance of working/developing iteratively.
• Create, re-factor, extend, and maintain performance test scripts.
• Help determine appropriate metrics to be gathered during performance testing and be responsible for analysing and tracking against these performance testing metrics on an ongoing basis.
• Help determine appropriate benchmarks for performance and be responsible for analysis and tracking against the benchmarks.
• Design and implement performance, scalability, stability, and stress tests using industry standard tools, and custom solutions.
• Assist in driving the performance, scalability, and capacity testing strategy.
• Gather performance test requirements and create performance qualification plans.
• Collaborate with Product engineering and production support teams on identification of bottlenecks and performance tuning.
• Ensure re-use through consumption and expansion of shared platform technology assets
• Benchmark Production for baselining and ensure accuracy of test simulation.
• Develop tools to simulate and monitor key performance metrics as needed.
  

About You

• 8+ years in Performance validation (profiling, tuning, workload simulation, benchmarking) & testing, Capacity Planning, Application Performance Monitoring and problem detection and resolution, as well as cloud & On-Perm Platform solutions.
• 8+ years of experience with 2 or more performance testing tools such as Apache JMeter, NeoLoad, Gatling, RPT, Loadrunner, httperf etc and APM, infrastructure monitoring tools like Dynatrace, SumoLogic, NewRelic, Prometheus and AppDynamics.
• 5+ years of experience with high-traffic, large-scale distributed systems, stream-processing platforms, client-server architectures, cloud DevOps.
• 3+ years of hands-on coding experience using languages and DSLs (at least 2 or more) - C#, .Net Core, Java, JavaScript, PowerShell, Python, Groovy, Bash, and SQL.
• Practical experience with the following Mobile app (iOS), Web technology stack (HTTP, REST, HTML, JavaScript, CSS etc), COTS Products/Platforms (SalesForce, SAP, MuleSoft, Oracle Fusion/MSM, CDSA, Ellipse, Maximo), O365, Data Lake, PowerBI, Analytics & insights and Azure services.
• Multi-system Integration using industry standards such as REST, API, JSON, SOAP, etc
• Experience with SQL databases – querying, profiling and performance tuning.
• Extensive relevant industry experience required, demonstrating working knowledge of relevant software infrastructure products/platforms.
• Experience performing DevOps engineering on a platform/product.
• Experience with resilient and highly available mission critical technology components, multi-tier service design and operations.
• Experience delivering products/Platforms and services using the Agile methodology.
• Excellent interpersonal communication and organizational skills to contribute as a leading member within the function, distributed teams passionate about delivering quality services and solutions.
  

What You’ll Get

A competitive salary dependent on capability

As well as your base salary, you will receive a bonus based on personal and company performance and a competitive contributory pension scheme where we will double match your contribution to a maximum company contribution of 12%. You will also have access to a number of flexible benefits such as a share incentive plan, salary sacrifice car and technology schemes, support via employee assistance lines and matched charity giving to name a few.

Closing date : 22nd July

About Us

National Grid touches the lives of almost everyone in the UK, with an energy network that stretches across the Atlantic. We’re an international team, and our work underpins the lives of millions of people. Feet forwards, head up, and eyes bright, we’re working hard to create value for people today – and shape the future of energy tomorrow.

In the UK, we don’t generate or sell energy – we join the dots to get energy from A to B. From making a cup of tea in the morning, to keeping the lights on in hospitals, our electricity network puts power in the hands of people. Without it, the world as we know it would grind to a halt.

The world of energy is changing beyond recognition. Working at National Grid, you won’t just be touching the lives of almost everyone in the UK – you’ll be shaping the way we use and consume energy for generations to come.

Our values and principles

At National Grid, through listening to what our customers need, every day we do the right thing and find a better way.

As a National Grid employee, you’ll treat our customers as a priority, taking time to listen and work with them to help give them the best experience we possibly can. You’ll need to be proactive and flexible in your approach and continually look for ways to exceed their expectations – sometimes in unexpected and helpful ways. You’ll provide accessible information when our customers need it and make things simple by using your expertise to guide them. Above all, you’ll follow through on your promises to deliver value, drive efficiency and give them a great customer experience.

We offer inclusion and diversity training for everyone here at National Grid, with a view to building an inclusive working environment and developing all our employees. Training opportunities range from unconscious bias and reverse mentoring to targeted training initiatives which are tailored to support our diverse and innovative work force.