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Performance Test Engineer

Employer
Northwest Evaluation Association
Location
Portland, OR, US
Salary
Competitive
Description

Performance Test Engineer

Who you are...

You're passionate about Quality Assurance and see it as an integral piece in the SDLC. Instead of just focusing on locating the bugs of an application , you look at the entire workflow for ways to increase performance.

Testing complex applications can be daunting, so you look to speed up the QA process by automating what you can . You're proficient with Java or Python , and you've worked with either JMeter or SOASTA in a past role .

You're highly organized and manage your time well. You prefer to work in a collaborative team setting over being a solo contributor. If this sounds like a environment you'd like to work in, let us know!

Must haves...

  • Experience creating workflows
  • Experience developing scripts in either JMeter or SOASTA
  • Scripting experience with Java or Python
  • Experience with SQL
  • Previous experience testing web applications

Traits for Success...

  • Needs to be comfortable working in a collaborative environment
  • Good communication skills
  • Able to succeed in a fast-paced environment.
  • Must be able to multi-task efficiently

Education and Experience...

  • 2-4 years as a Performance Engineer
  • Minimum B.S. degree in computer science or a related field; or equivalent work experience and/or education in lieu of a degree


About the Product Engineering Team....

Comprised of nearly 200 professionals, NWEA's Product Engineering team offers our employees the ability to work with cutting-edge technologies, on a platform that has one of the highest concurrency applications in the Portland Metro area, that assesses nearly 10 million students annually across the world.

Our Product Engineering group is made up of large-scale teams focused across many tech fields like infrastructure, applications engineering, business analysis, operations, QA, and solutions delivery.

About us....

Founded by educators nearly 40 years ago, NWEA™ is a global not-for-profit educational services organization known for our flagship interim assessment, Measures of Academic Progress® (MAP®).

More than 7,400 partners in U.S. schools, districts, education agencies, and international schools trust us to offer pre-kindergarten through grade 12 assessments that accurately measure student growth and learning needs, professional development that fosters educators' ability to accelerate student learning, and research that supports assessment validity and data interpretation.

What we can offer you....

At NWEA we not only offer competitive pay, a 15% contribution of eligible employees' base salary to a defined contribution 403(b) retirement savings plan, career development opportunities and an awesome culture, we also offer industry leading benefits and perks that are focused on supporting our employees' holistic wellbeing. To learn more about what we can offer more, click here .

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