Performance Test Engineer
Yum! Brands, Inc.2 months ago
Remote, United StatesSenior
Base Salary
$109k - $129k/yr
Responsibilities
- Review requirements, identify performance risks, and execute performance tests with Engineering, Quality Engineering, Product, and SRE teams.
- Design, develop, and execute performance test strategies, scenarios, and workloads based on business events, system architecture, and scalability requirements.
- Analyze performance results, application metrics, logs, traces, and infrastructure data to identify bottlenecks and optimization opportunities.
- Maintain and enhance performance testing frameworks, tooling, automation, documentation, best practices, and test assets.
- Evaluate scalability, reliability, capacity, resiliency, and resource utilization under varying workloads.
- Communicate performance findings, risks, bottlenecks, and recommendations to technical and leadership stakeholders.
- Develop scripts, test data, environments, monitoring dashboards, and configurations, and support ongoing Byte Platform performance certification.
- Guide POD teams through performance testing frameworks, mentoring, documentation, and service-level performance ownership.
- Drive continuous improvements across performance testing workflows, methodologies, and practices.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer information systems, engineering, or equivalent experience.
- At least 5 years of performance engineering experience.
- At least 3 years of experience with the code-first k6 performance testing tool and performance analysis using Datadog or similar platforms.
- Advanced coding skills in JavaScript or TypeScript.
- At least 3 years of hands-on experience with microservices architectures, RESTful APIs, GraphQL APIs, and web applications.
- Extensive hands-on experience with AWS cloud services and Kubernetes, including monitoring, scaling, and troubleshooting.
- Experience with profile or baseline, load, stress, soak, and spike testing.
- Ability to perform deep-dive root-cause analysis of performance results.
- Strong technical communication and documentation skills.
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About Yum! Brands, Inc.
Yum! Brands is a publicly traded restaurant company that operates and franchises KFC, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, and The Habit Burger Grill for consumers worldwide. Its model centers on franchising, digital ordering, and delivery platforms, with corporate teams supporting marketing, supply chain, and enterprise technology. The company was formed in 1997 and is headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky, with thousands of restaurants across more than 150 countries.