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About the position
Cognizant Technology Solutions is seeking a skilled SAP S/4 HANA Implementation Consultant with Performance Engineering experience to join our team of IT professionals in a permanent role. This position is part of Cognizant's Quality Engineering and Assurance (QEA) Practice, which is recognized as the largest Quality Assurance Practice globally, servicing over 800 clients. Our practice is dedicated to helping clients with their Quality Engineering transformation journey, offering next-generation QA services such as System Modernization Assurance, Business Process Assurance, Quality Engineering, Cloud Platform Assurance, Customer Experience Assurance, and Robotic Test Automation. We have consistently been ranked #1 for Market Impact by Everest Group and have received accolades for our completeness of vision in the Gartner Magic Quadrant. As an SAP S/4 HANA Implementation Consultant, you will play a crucial role in defining, developing, and applying performance and scalability benchmarks. You will collaborate with multifunctional teams to characterize, debug, and enhance system performance and scalability. Your expertise will be essential in identifying performance bottlenecks using various profiling tools and conducting root cause analysis. You will also be responsible for planning and executing performance tests in an automated testing environment, analyzing results, and participating in architecture and design reviews of complex solutions. This role requires a minimum of 3 years of hands-on software testing experience, with a strong focus on performance testing of SAP applications. Candidates should have experience with both Brownfield and Greenfield S/4 HANA implementations, as well as proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Perl, ABAP, Java, or C++. Familiarity with performance testing tools like LoadRunner Enterprise, Apache JMeter, and application performance monitoring tools such as Dynatrace and AppDynamics is also essential. The position is based in Austin, TX, and Raleigh, NC, with a hybrid work model requiring three days in the office.
Responsibilities
- Define, develop, and apply performance/scalability benchmarks.
- Work in multifunctional teams to characterize, debug, and improve system performance and scalability.
- Utilize 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.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in mathematics, Computer Science, Engineering, or other relevant major.
- Minimum 3+ years of proven hands-on software testing experience.
- Strong experience in performance testing of SAP applications.
- Experience working on Brownfield or Greenfield S/4 HANA implementations.
- Strong knowledge of one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, Perl, ABAP, Java, C++).
- Experience in performance testing tools such as LoadRunner Enterprise, Apache JMeter, SoapUI, and 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.
Nice-to-haves
- 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 Suite, 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.
Benefits
- 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
