SAP Performance Engineer(Onsite)

Cognizant Technology Solutions is looking for a "SAP Performance Engineer(Onsite)" to join in our team of IT professionals in a permanent role. If you meet our background requirements and skills and are looking for an opportunity with these skills and expertise, here is the ideal opportunity for you!

About Cognizant's QEA Practice:
We are the largest Quality Assurance Practice Globally servicing 800+ Clients. We bring the industry leading vision and expertise to help with Quality Engineering transformation journey for our reputed clients. We provide Next Gen QA offerings like System Modernization assurance, Business Process Assurance, Quality Engineering, Cloud Platform Assurance, Customer Experience Assurance and Robotic Test Automation. We have been ranked #1 for Market Impact by Everest Group for four times in a row and ranked #1 for completeness of vision, test advisory and Digital Business Assurance in Gartner Magic Quadrant!

SAP Performance Engineer(Onsite)
Locations: Austin, TX & Raleigh NC - Hybrid - 3 days in Office

Qualifications:
* Bachelor's degree in mathematics, Computer Science, Engineering, or other relevant major.
* Certifications like AWS Solutions Architect and GCP Associate Cloud Engineer are a plus.

Roles and Responsibilities:
* Define, develop, and apply performance/scalability benchmarks.
* Work in multi-functional teams to characterize, debug, and improve system performance and scalability.
* Work efficiently with various profiling tools to identify performance bottlenecks and provide root cause analysis.
* Devise and conduct experiments to evaluate the performance impacts of system changes.
* Plan and complete performance tests using an automated testing environment and conduct analysis of results.
* Participate in architecture and design reviews of complex solutions in cross-team engineering efforts and own quality perspectives for the design.

Required Skills:
* Minimum 3+ years of proven hands-on software testing experience.
* Strong experience in performance testing of SAP applications.
* Candidate should have an experience working on Brown or Green field S/4 HANA implementations.
* Strong knowledge of one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, Perl, ABAP, Java, C++).
* Experience in performance testing tools - LoadRunner Enterprise, Apache JMeter, SoapUI, Postman.
* Experience in data analysis and visualization, end-to-end performance, and root cause analysis.
* Experience in service-oriented architecture, and RESTful APIs.
* Strong knowledge of performance-tuning SQL queries.
* Extensive hands-on experience with JVM tuning techniques.
* Experience with application performance monitoring tools like Dynatrace, and AppDynamics.
* Efficiently work with various profiling tools to identify performance bottlenecks.

Good to have Skills:
* Working knowledge of Agile or Scrum software development methodologies.
* Experience in Cloud-based platforms like AWS and GCP.
* Expertise in performance assessment and optimization of complex applications built on the SAP BTP platform.
* Strong understanding of BTP components like API management (APIM), SAP Integration Suit, Conversational AI (CAI), Data Intelligence (SAP DI), and AWS storage services.
* Skilled in BTP technologies like Smart Data Integration (SDI).
* Strong experience in performance testing and analysis of SCP iOS SDK mobile apps.
* Proficient in application & DB performance monitoring in SAP BTP using Kibana, HANA DB cockpit and SAP BTP cockpit.
* Understanding of basic Machine Learning algorithms & principles.
* Strong understanding of relational database systems as well as in-memory databases.
* Understanding of Algorithms and O-Notation.
* Code management using Git.

Work Authorization:
Cognizant will only consider applicants for this position who are legally authorized to work in the United States without company sponsorship (H-1B, L-1B, L-1A, etc.)

Benefits: Cognizant offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements:

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance
Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off
401(k) plan and contributions
Long-term/Short-term Disability
Paid Parental Leave
Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Disclaimer: The salary, other compensation, and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. Cognizant reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.
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