Performance Tester Details

Performance Tester

EchoStar - Germantown, MD

Employment Type : Full-Time

EchoStar Corporation (NASDAQ: SATS) is a premier global provider of satellite communication solutions. Headquartered in Englewood, Colo., and conducting business around the globe, EchoStar is a pioneer in communications technologies through its Hughes Network Systems and EchoStar Satellite Services business segments. For more information, visit echostar.com . Follow @EchoStar on Twitter.

Hughes has an exciting opportunity for a Performance Tester to work within our Service Delivery Group located at our headquarters in Germantown, MD. The candidate will need to work with multiple teams to support the consumer and enterprise businesses.

Responsibilities:

• Provide input and insight to the architecture process.
• Model technical requirements to evaluate performance impacts.
• Develop performance requirements for helping tune performance bottlenecks in various enterprise architectures.
• Develop performance test strategies, test plans and validate performance test environments.
• Work with cross functional project terms to define performance metrics and acceptance criteria.
• Analyze performance test results to evaluate impacts on production infrastructure and make comparisons with previous release benchmarks.
• Provide performance sign-off and review results with the management and other technical groups.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or closely related field
• 3-5 years of experience in Software Development and Performance Testing & Automation and/or Orchestration.
• Experience with tools such as JMeter, Loadrunner & AppDynamics

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proficient in Oracle scripting.
• Experience in JAVA, Salesforce, Linux, NodeJS, Apache desired
• Open Shift platform is desired

Will be eligible for discretionary bonus, with funding based on company performance.

EchoStar is committed to offering a comprehensive and competitive benefits package. Our programs are designed to provide you with the ability to customize your benefits to best meet the needs of you and your family. Our philosophy for these programs is to support and encourage healthy living and wellness. Our benefits package covers it all–from healthcare savings plans to education assistance and more!

• Financial : 401(k) retirement savings plan with company match; employee stock purchase plan; profit-sharing; company-paid life insurance, AD&D and disability

• Work-Life Balance : Paid Time Off (PTO), company-paid holidays, health and wellness events, exercise and sports facilities (locations may vary)

• Employee Incentives : Tuition reimbursement, employee referral program, year round employee events and community programs, discounts on Dish Network and HughesNet

• Health : Medical, Dental, Vision, Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Health Savings Account (HSA) with opportunities to earn employer contributions; Health Care, Dependent Care and Transportation Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)

EchoStar and its Affiliated Companies are committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, pregnancy, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, genetic information, protected veteran status, disability, or any other basis protected by local, state, or federal law. U.S. Persons or those able to obtain and maintain U.S. government security clearances may be required for certain positions. EEO is the law.