About the role
Our Why At Dotmatics
At Dotmatics, we believe science, data, and decision-making must be deeply intertwined for innovation to thrive.
Our Portfolio includes Luma, LumaLab Connect, ELN Platform, Graphpad Prism, Geneious, SnapGene, Protein Metrics, OMIQ, FCS Express, LabArchives, NQuery, EasyPanel, MStar, SoftGenetics and Virscidian.
We have a vision for a new Lab of the Future that will change the future of scientific research.
We have created the world’s most comprehensive digital science platform – best-of-breed software applications already used by more than 2 million scientists, together in a single ecosystem united by a powerful, flexible enterprise data platform. This is not flat data buried away in digital graveyards. This is dynamic, multi-dimensional decision-making.
Scientific enterprises need a new level of effectiveness to achieve tomorrow’s breakthroughs. Illness will not wait. The biosphere will not wait. We are tireless in our vision, because the time for innovation is now.
Shaping the Future of Science At Dotmatics
Our global team of more than 800 colleagues are dedicated to supporting our customers in over 180 countries. Together, with our scientific community of users, we accelerate scientific innovation in order to make the world a healthier, cleaner, and safer place to live.
You’ll join a collaborative, global team pushing the boundaries of scientific innovation. Your ideas and efforts will have a tangible impact, accelerating scientific progress and discovery. We offer a dynamic, remote-friendly environment that fosters high integrity and collaboration, empowering you to excel. Dotmatics is a company built by scientists, for scientists. Combined, we are now the world’s largest cloud-based scientific research R&D platform. We need your help to keep growing and pioneering the future.
We are Science Driven. We are Customer Centric. We are Better Together.
What do we need
The Performance Test Engineer’s primary role is to help improve the quality of Dotmatics’ solutions by planning, creating, running and analysing performance tests. In this role you will work closely with Engineering teams to diagnose performance issues and validate improvements across releases.
This role will also include occasional work with customers to reproduce, analyse and resolve performance issues.
In this role you will get to
- Design, build and maintain performance test suites primarily using Apache JMeter to replicate realistic workloads (including API tests)
- Execute a range of performance tests (baseline, load, stress, soak etc) and carry out results analysis
- Produce high quality and clear reports that cater to different audiences with a range of technical abilities.
- Integrate performance tests into CI/CD pipelines
- Work with customers and engineering teams to triage reported performance problems as well as developing targeted tests to aid in the creation of fixes
- Work with Engineering and Services teams to advocate and drive best practice in coding standards to ensure Performance is at the forefront of development activities.
- Contribute to performance testing standards and documentation
The Key Skills we are looking for
- At least 2 years of experience in Performance Testing roles
- 2+ years of hands-on experience with Apache JMeter or another industry standard performance testing tool such as LoadRunner
- Experience of the full performance testing lifecycle (requirements gathering, planning, test creation, test execution, analysis and reporting)
- Scripting experience to support test creation (Groovy/JSR223 or similar)
- Working knowledge of regular expressions to support test creation
- Strong communication skills, including the ability to explain technical findings clearly to internal teams, management and customers.
- Attention to detail and a willingness to learn
You may also have:
- AWS experience creating and maintaining performance test environments (EC2, AMIs, Security Groups, Route 53 config)
- Experience with monitoring tools (CloudWatch, Glowroot, PRTG)
- Java ecosystem familiarity
- Database performance awareness (Oracle)
- Background in scientific discipline (chemistry, biology, life sciences, informatics)
- SQL experience
- Experience with Apache Tomcat configurations and impact on Performance
Research shows us the confidence gap and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting outstanding candidates, so please don’t hesitate to apply — we’d love to hear from you.
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Dotmatics is an equal opportunity employer. We are a welcoming place for everyone, and we do our best to make sure all people feel supported and connected at work.