Senior Engineer – Performance Test

RMS is a team of people with backgrounds in mathematics, civil engineering, finance and computer science. We share the responsibility of ensuring product excellence for our global customer base. RMS utilizes the latest tools and techniques for quality assurance and quality control of products for assessing risks from natural and manmade catastrophes.

Risk Management Solutions is seeking a Senior Engineer to support performance testing of our software and data solutions for catastrophic risk analysis. This is an individual contributor role, which will include automation and test tool creation to support performance engineering as well as performance lab maintenance.

Responsibilities:

• Develop performance and load test strategy supporting immediate project targets as well as long term goals
• Design, execute, and maintain automated performance/load tests and test framework/tools. Thorough understanding of market based and open source tools
• Debugging automated test failures, defect isolation
• Advise software engineering team on opportunities for optimizing/tuning performance during all phases of development cycle, including improvements from environment reconfiguration, architectural review, code inspection.
• Clear and concise reporting of performance results for trending and troubleshooting, including maintenance of automated performance results reporting
• Develop flexible performance/load test system capable of adapting quickly/easily for new test scenarios
• Troubleshooting internal and external performance issues on demand

The successful candidate must have:

• 3+ years experience in software engineering/testing including memory/performance profiling, performance and load testing, test lab maintenance
• Strong written/oral communication skills; ability to articulate thoughts/opinions on tools/processes clearly
• Ability to work independently with little direction as well as with a team
• Strong test design skills and knowledge of standard principals of SQA
• Strong programming/scripting skills (C#, VBScript)
• Experience with Windows XP, Vista, Windows Server 2003/8 operating systems
• Strong knowledge of SQL databases
• Understanding of throughput, latency, memory and CPU utilization
• B.S. in Computer Science, Information Systems, Math. Master’s in Computer Science

Risk Management Solutions (RMS) is the world’s leading provider of analytics and decision science solutions for the quantification and management of catastrophic risks throughout the world. The models and consulting services of RMS are used by hundreds of insurance and reinsurance companies, hedge funds, corporations, and governments to assess a wide-range of natural and man-made perils such as – earthquake, flood, hurricane, windstorm, wild fire, disease pandemic. RMS continues to grow and diversify in order to service and meet the requirement of its clients through research and technology innovation and superior client service. The company’s strength lies in its ability to use and develop the skills of its people across a wide remit of business activities.

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