Job Title :- Sr. Performance Test Engineer Duration :- 6 Months Location :- 388 Greenwich Street New York NY NO H1's FINANCIAL EXPERIENCE MOST PREFERRED. Looking for hands-on Senior Performance Test Engineer to lead the planning and execution of test strategies for moderate to complex performance test engagements focusing on system performance, capacity, stability, and scalability. In addition, the candidate will develop and maintain performance test plans, cases, scenarios, and scripts, design test data strategies for performance test, and put together performance requirements and determine workload and usage models. Job Responsibilities The Sr. Performance Test Engineer will perform test execution, monitoring, diagnostics, analysis, tuning, and reporting of results to identify and troubleshoot system performance issues and bottlenecks, as well as review of performance-related work products and deliverables. Education: Bachelors Degree in Computer Science/Engineering, Management Information Systems, or equivalent engineering experience, required. Experience: 3-5 years of experience in performance test engineering or related experience required. Strong Experience with Hewlett Packard (HP) Performance Center/Load Runner. Strong understanding of software development life cycles, software engineering processes, test processes, operating systems, web applications, client/server applications, distributed systems, shared services, communication protocols, and architectures required. Strong knowledge of application software, performance test methods, infrastructure, and network required. Good knowledge of OS internals. Working knowledge of one or more software programming languages required, 'C' preferred. Working knowledge of word processing, spreadsheet, database, diagramming and presentation software required. Working knowledge of project planning and estimation preferred. Performance tool certification or performance designation preferred. The position requires the candidate to work non-standard hours as needed. Preferred: Strong/proven experience in pre-production application/transaction level tracing/monitoring preferred. Proven experience in implementing performance test strategies, designing tests, and executing performance tests through moderately complex systems is preferred. Strong understanding of TCP/IP networking. Working knowledge of underlying technologies including HTTP & HTML, AJAX, ASP.Net, Siebel is preferred. Experience diagnosing and debugging performance bottlenecks by interpreting test results and analyzing metrics gathered using tools, such as HP Diagnostics, HP SiteScope, server logs is preferred. If interested, please reply back with updated copy of resume and hourly rates.