Performance Test Engineer

Capital One Financial Corporation, incorporated in July 21, 1994, is a diversified banking company focused primarily on consumer and commercial lending and deposit origination. Its principal business segments are Local Banking and National Lending.

* Strong application performance engineering experience * Java/J2EE development experience with a strong and proven passion for software performance tuning * Experience analyzing, profiling and tuning Java source code, database queries, web/application servers and infrastructure with the aim of making systems more resilient and scalable * Passion for automation and federation of fully automated performance tools to delivery teams for data gathering for analysis * Solid understanding of system architecture and design principles * Experience building or using open source tools for automated log analysis, monitoring web, app and DB layers * Experience in proactive performance engineering as well as reactive performance remediation activities in production * Solid understanding of operating systems and networking * Strong knowledge of relational databases and NoSQL * Knowledge of any performance testing tool (Jmeter, Grinder or similar)

**Basic Qualifications:** * Bachelors Degree * At least 5 years in Java and database performance tuning and solving performance issues * At least 3 years of Java/J2EE development experience building RESTful services * At least 3 years of experience in SOAP Web Services * At least 2 years in APM tool New Relic * At least 2 years in log analysis tool Splunk * At least 2 years of experience in working on Linux environments * At least 1 year working on AWS environments and remediating performance issues on public cloud environments **Preferred Qualifications:** * 2 years of experience building and leading a performance engineering taskforce * 2 years of experience guiding development teams on performance engineering best practices