Performance/Failover Testing Engineer Salary: Open + Bonus Location: Chicago, IL Hybrid: 3 days onsite, 2 days remote *We are unable to provide sponsorship for this role* Qualifications Bachelor's degree 2-3 years in the areas of Performance/Failover Testing/Architecture/DevOps Experienced in application, hardware, and network testing Experience with Kafka or other messaging systems Hands-on experience building test automation and failover test suites Responsibilities Analyze the business requirements, understand the expectations from end user, review with Business Analysts/SMEs and design test scenarios. Works closely with development, QA, and operations teams to understand application architecture and performance requirements. Design and develop performance test scripts and scenarios using appropriate tools and frameworks. Monitor system behavior during performance, Load, Stress, and failover tests and ensure systems meet recovery time objectives. Conduct failover tests by simulations of hardware, software, and network failures.
29/04/2025
Full time
Performance/Failover Testing Engineer Salary: Open + Bonus Location: Chicago, IL Hybrid: 3 days onsite, 2 days remote *We are unable to provide sponsorship for this role* Qualifications Bachelor's degree 2-3 years in the areas of Performance/Failover Testing/Architecture/DevOps Experienced in application, hardware, and network testing Experience with Kafka or other messaging systems Hands-on experience building test automation and failover test suites Responsibilities Analyze the business requirements, understand the expectations from end user, review with Business Analysts/SMEs and design test scenarios. Works closely with development, QA, and operations teams to understand application architecture and performance requirements. Design and develop performance test scripts and scenarios using appropriate tools and frameworks. Monitor system behavior during performance, Load, Stress, and failover tests and ensure systems meet recovery time objectives. Conduct failover tests by simulations of hardware, software, and network failures.
NO SPONSORSHIP Senior Associate, Performance and Failover Testing SALARY: $80k - $110k plus 10% bonus LOCATION: DALLAS 3 days onsite Looking for a candidate with 2-3 years performance failover testing on cloud and on prem. n-tiered environments, jmeter, selenium, spiratest and LoadRunner. Conduct failover tests by simulations of hardware software and network failures This role will be responsible for Performance and Failover testing which includes but not limited to segments of the planning, design, and execution of performance, failover tests and produce the reports. Primary Duties and Responsibilities Analyze the business requirements, understand the expectation from end user, review with Business Analysts/SMEs and design test scenarios. Works closely with development, QA, and operations teams to understand application architecture and performance requirements. Design and develop performance test scripts and scenarios using appropriate tools and frameworks. Monitor system behavior during performance, Load, Stress, and failover tests and ensure systems meet recovery time objectives. Conduct failover tests by simulations of hardware, software, and network failures. Identify performance bottlenecks, root causes, and potential solutions. Analyze Results, compare against SLAs, Benchmarks and Provide tuning recommendations to improve End User Experience. Document findings in Test management tool and provide actionable recommendations for improving performance/failover processes. Work closely with development, QA and Operations teams to integrate performance and failover testing into the overall testing Approach documentation. Collaborate with Enterprise Quality Process team and ensure standards are followed during failover testing and audit checks are passed. Find opportunity to automate, improve existing process, & contribute towards innovation by doing POCs on latest technologies. Qualifications Experience in Performance and Failover testing on cloud & on-prem for n-tiered environments. Good understanding of application architecture, Non-Functional Requirements & identifying production workloads. Some experience in using tools such as JMeter, Selenium, SpiraTest, and LoadRunner Good understanding of load, soak, scalability, and other types of performance tests. Understanding of AWS or Azure platform to run performance and failover tests. Exposure in performance engineering for J2EE/.NET/LAMP, etc. Familiar with monitoring queues with tools like Any Point, MQ Explorer etc. Experience in running automated performance tests via CI/CD pipelines (on platforms like Cloud bees, GitHub etc.) Experience with application monitoring/Observability, building dashboards, identifying & establishing SLA's, logging & tracing. Understanding of Capacity planning and Performance tuning. Education and/or Experience Bachelor's/master's degree in computer science, Engineering, and any related discipline. 2-3 years in the areas of Performance/Failover Testing/Architecture/DevOps. knowledge of high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) concepts. Experience in collaborating with Development, Site Reliability Engineering, Cloud Engineering, Security in evaluating performance & scalability issues. Understand the architecture of high volume transactional SaaS Systems. Hands-on experience building test automation and failover test suites.
25/04/2025
Full time
NO SPONSORSHIP Senior Associate, Performance and Failover Testing SALARY: $80k - $110k plus 10% bonus LOCATION: DALLAS 3 days onsite Looking for a candidate with 2-3 years performance failover testing on cloud and on prem. n-tiered environments, jmeter, selenium, spiratest and LoadRunner. Conduct failover tests by simulations of hardware software and network failures This role will be responsible for Performance and Failover testing which includes but not limited to segments of the planning, design, and execution of performance, failover tests and produce the reports. Primary Duties and Responsibilities Analyze the business requirements, understand the expectation from end user, review with Business Analysts/SMEs and design test scenarios. Works closely with development, QA, and operations teams to understand application architecture and performance requirements. Design and develop performance test scripts and scenarios using appropriate tools and frameworks. Monitor system behavior during performance, Load, Stress, and failover tests and ensure systems meet recovery time objectives. Conduct failover tests by simulations of hardware, software, and network failures. Identify performance bottlenecks, root causes, and potential solutions. Analyze Results, compare against SLAs, Benchmarks and Provide tuning recommendations to improve End User Experience. Document findings in Test management tool and provide actionable recommendations for improving performance/failover processes. Work closely with development, QA and Operations teams to integrate performance and failover testing into the overall testing Approach documentation. Collaborate with Enterprise Quality Process team and ensure standards are followed during failover testing and audit checks are passed. Find opportunity to automate, improve existing process, & contribute towards innovation by doing POCs on latest technologies. Qualifications Experience in Performance and Failover testing on cloud & on-prem for n-tiered environments. Good understanding of application architecture, Non-Functional Requirements & identifying production workloads. Some experience in using tools such as JMeter, Selenium, SpiraTest, and LoadRunner Good understanding of load, soak, scalability, and other types of performance tests. Understanding of AWS or Azure platform to run performance and failover tests. Exposure in performance engineering for J2EE/.NET/LAMP, etc. Familiar with monitoring queues with tools like Any Point, MQ Explorer etc. Experience in running automated performance tests via CI/CD pipelines (on platforms like Cloud bees, GitHub etc.) Experience with application monitoring/Observability, building dashboards, identifying & establishing SLA's, logging & tracing. Understanding of Capacity planning and Performance tuning. Education and/or Experience Bachelor's/master's degree in computer science, Engineering, and any related discipline. 2-3 years in the areas of Performance/Failover Testing/Architecture/DevOps. knowledge of high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) concepts. Experience in collaborating with Development, Site Reliability Engineering, Cloud Engineering, Security in evaluating performance & scalability issues. Understand the architecture of high volume transactional SaaS Systems. Hands-on experience building test automation and failover test suites.
ONLY APPLICATIONS WHO ARE HAPPY WITH HYBRID TRAVEL PER WEEK TO DUNDEE WILL BE CONSIDERED FOR THIS ROLE Mechanical Design Engineer Location - Dundee Contract My client are looking for a skilled mechanical designer with expertise in plastic molding, and manufacturing processes. Proficient in CAD (ProE/Creo), tolerance analysis, and design for assemblies with PCBs. Experienced in leading projects from concept to production, collaborating across disciplines, and working with suppliers. Strong communicator with a focus on quality, documentation, and multitasking Your responsibilities in the role Strong understanding of Mechanical design principles and technologies. Clearly understand documentation and the ability to work solely on problems as well as within a team environment Must be willing to work to and set high work standards and be a good communicator Strong understanding of plastic moulding and sheet metal fabrication design as well as a good understanding of tooling and parts manufacture. Lead Mechanical activities with a good understanding of different manufacturing and assembly options, also review/recommend new manufacturing/assembly technologies Lead/support; design reviews, assembly process, testing, etc Work with Engineers from different disciplines for the benefit of the project as a whole Able to work on multiple projects/tasks at the same time Experience of working on projects from basic concepts right through to production CAD (ProE/Creo preferred) Work with Suppliers throughout project life cycle Drawing, dimensioning & tolerancing experience Stress and Tolerance analysis experience Experience with assemblies containing PCBs/harnesses including design for EMC & Safety Experience with Rapid prototyping technologies BOM cost tracking Status reporting and tracking to schedule Documentation - Functional and Unit Test Specifications Further information provided upon application. ECS Recruitment Group Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
25/04/2025
Project-based
ONLY APPLICATIONS WHO ARE HAPPY WITH HYBRID TRAVEL PER WEEK TO DUNDEE WILL BE CONSIDERED FOR THIS ROLE Mechanical Design Engineer Location - Dundee Contract My client are looking for a skilled mechanical designer with expertise in plastic molding, and manufacturing processes. Proficient in CAD (ProE/Creo), tolerance analysis, and design for assemblies with PCBs. Experienced in leading projects from concept to production, collaborating across disciplines, and working with suppliers. Strong communicator with a focus on quality, documentation, and multitasking Your responsibilities in the role Strong understanding of Mechanical design principles and technologies. Clearly understand documentation and the ability to work solely on problems as well as within a team environment Must be willing to work to and set high work standards and be a good communicator Strong understanding of plastic moulding and sheet metal fabrication design as well as a good understanding of tooling and parts manufacture. Lead Mechanical activities with a good understanding of different manufacturing and assembly options, also review/recommend new manufacturing/assembly technologies Lead/support; design reviews, assembly process, testing, etc Work with Engineers from different disciplines for the benefit of the project as a whole Able to work on multiple projects/tasks at the same time Experience of working on projects from basic concepts right through to production CAD (ProE/Creo preferred) Work with Suppliers throughout project life cycle Drawing, dimensioning & tolerancing experience Stress and Tolerance analysis experience Experience with assemblies containing PCBs/harnesses including design for EMC & Safety Experience with Rapid prototyping technologies BOM cost tracking Status reporting and tracking to schedule Documentation - Functional and Unit Test Specifications Further information provided upon application. ECS Recruitment Group Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
Quantitative Analyst, Modeling and Audit Salary: Open Location: Chicago, IL Hybrid: 3 days onsite, 2 days remote Qualifications Bachelor's degree required. Master's degree in mathematics or Statistics, Financial Engineering, Economics, or other field possessing strong quantitative, analytical, and problem-solving skills. Alternatively, a Ph. D degree majored in quantitative field and over 1 year of work experience. 5+ years of experience in model risk management methodology. Experience using the principles, practices, and techniques involved in conducting audits in accordance with the requirements set forth in the Global International Audit Standards (IIA GIA). Experience in Internal Audit, Model Risk Management, Financial Services/Securities Industry and working with regulatory organizations such as: Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), Federal Reserve. Experience in evaluating complex derivatives and performing advanced statistical analysis on underlying risk factors. Experience with reviewing credit/counterparty risk and stress testing models for derivative instruments (eg, Historical VaR, Monte Carlo, TIMS and SPAN). Experience in data analysis and programming languages such as Python, C++, and Java. Experience in executing model risk audits. Responsibilities Lead or execute quantitative reviews/audits/validations (conceptual soundness, documentation, data, methodology, development code, testing, and implementation for accuracy) of models or financial risk tools used for credit risk, market risk, liquidity risk and stress testing. Support financial risk management audits and validations as required. Effectively communicate complex technical quantitative analysis (based on data and models), principles, methods, and approach to relevant stakeholders. Perform audit activities including risk assessments, audit planning, audit testing, control evaluation, and complete work paper documentation in accordance with Internal Audit requirements (eg IIA GIA). Communicate identified findings and enhancements to audit management and key stakeholders. Draft audit reports clearly communicate overall conclusions, key risks, findings and their root cause, and impact on company overall risk exposure. Perform continuous monitoring of model risk identifying patterns and trends to understand their impact on company overall risk level and controls. Effectively challenge risk management (first and second lines of defense) to adopt appropriate policies, procedures, and effective controls designed to mitigate financial risk. Support the development or enhancement of audit procedures and templates for auditing financial risk management. Support in developing and implementing data analytics and automated testing. Ensure audit quality, accuracy of results, and delivery in a timely manner. Proactively identify regulatory, operational, and/or strategic risks to the organization and present them to IA leadership. Coach and develop junior audit staff in financial risk management practices as part of their on-going development. Maintaining an understanding of policies, procedures, standards, and supporting technologies, and educating staff accordingly, to effectively identify potential risks and alternatives to mitigate risk exposure leveraging leading practices. Ability to understand and apply professional principles and standards (eg, AICPA, IIA GIA, COSO) and the relevancy to risk management and impact on policies and procedures. In addition, leveraging these principles and standards to test and evaluate corporate risk management processes and controls.
23/04/2025
Full time
Quantitative Analyst, Modeling and Audit Salary: Open Location: Chicago, IL Hybrid: 3 days onsite, 2 days remote Qualifications Bachelor's degree required. Master's degree in mathematics or Statistics, Financial Engineering, Economics, or other field possessing strong quantitative, analytical, and problem-solving skills. Alternatively, a Ph. D degree majored in quantitative field and over 1 year of work experience. 5+ years of experience in model risk management methodology. Experience using the principles, practices, and techniques involved in conducting audits in accordance with the requirements set forth in the Global International Audit Standards (IIA GIA). Experience in Internal Audit, Model Risk Management, Financial Services/Securities Industry and working with regulatory organizations such as: Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), Federal Reserve. Experience in evaluating complex derivatives and performing advanced statistical analysis on underlying risk factors. Experience with reviewing credit/counterparty risk and stress testing models for derivative instruments (eg, Historical VaR, Monte Carlo, TIMS and SPAN). Experience in data analysis and programming languages such as Python, C++, and Java. Experience in executing model risk audits. Responsibilities Lead or execute quantitative reviews/audits/validations (conceptual soundness, documentation, data, methodology, development code, testing, and implementation for accuracy) of models or financial risk tools used for credit risk, market risk, liquidity risk and stress testing. Support financial risk management audits and validations as required. Effectively communicate complex technical quantitative analysis (based on data and models), principles, methods, and approach to relevant stakeholders. Perform audit activities including risk assessments, audit planning, audit testing, control evaluation, and complete work paper documentation in accordance with Internal Audit requirements (eg IIA GIA). Communicate identified findings and enhancements to audit management and key stakeholders. Draft audit reports clearly communicate overall conclusions, key risks, findings and their root cause, and impact on company overall risk exposure. Perform continuous monitoring of model risk identifying patterns and trends to understand their impact on company overall risk level and controls. Effectively challenge risk management (first and second lines of defense) to adopt appropriate policies, procedures, and effective controls designed to mitigate financial risk. Support the development or enhancement of audit procedures and templates for auditing financial risk management. Support in developing and implementing data analytics and automated testing. Ensure audit quality, accuracy of results, and delivery in a timely manner. Proactively identify regulatory, operational, and/or strategic risks to the organization and present them to IA leadership. Coach and develop junior audit staff in financial risk management practices as part of their on-going development. Maintaining an understanding of policies, procedures, standards, and supporting technologies, and educating staff accordingly, to effectively identify potential risks and alternatives to mitigate risk exposure leveraging leading practices. Ability to understand and apply professional principles and standards (eg, AICPA, IIA GIA, COSO) and the relevancy to risk management and impact on policies and procedures. In addition, leveraging these principles and standards to test and evaluate corporate risk management processes and controls.
