Assist senior engineers in crafting load models, designing and developing cohesive load, stress, capacity and endurance tests which span micro front-ends, application services and core enterprise services
Write code that is of high quality and consistent with our coding standards
Through automation, enable engineers outside your team to understand how recent code changes impact performance
Produce automated performance and capacity testing reports in an easily digestible format for varying audiences such as Software Engineers, Site Reliability Engineers and Senior Leadership
Participate in Communities-of-Practice in those technologies in which you have an interest
Participate in continuous education programs to grow your skills both technically and in the Williams- Sonoma business domain
Serve as a member of a Scrum team and participate in all planning, stand-up and retrospective meetings
Requirements
2 - 4 years of experience writing and maintaining performance tests in tools such as Apache JMeter
Experience with APM (Application Performance Monitoring) and visibility tools such as AppDynamics, Open Search and Grafana
Experience working with containerized Java and NodeJS applications running in Kubernetes as well as traditional Virtual Machines with Apache Tomcat as the Java application container
Working knowledge of web technologies including HTML, HTTP, REST, JSON, and JavaScript
Proficiency with SQL and a thorough understanding of relational database systems such as Oracle
Knowledge of no-SQL and time series databases such as Oracle, Apache Cassandra and InfluxDB are a plus
Knowledge of core web vitals as well as measurement tools such as SiteSpeed.io, Lighthouse, Chrome Performance Tools as well as WebPageTest are a plus
An understanding of source code management tools such as Git and other core programming practices
Enthusiasm for constant improvement as a Software Engineer
Ability to review and understand proposed designs and offer thoughtful feedback in a collegial fashion
Ability to communicate clearly and effectively both verbally and in writing