Pay range: USD $177,366.00 - $253,000.00 / Year
Your opportunity
At Schwab, you're empowered to make an impact on your career. Here, innovative thought meets creative problem solving, helping us "challenge the status quo" and transform the finance industry together.
Duties: Research, design, and develop computer and network software or specialized utility programs, primarily for streaming real time market data systems performance and load testing. Create comprehensive performance test plans which ensure all important performance capabilities of the system under test are assessed. Collaborate with business and development resources to identify correct workloads ad performance SLA's. Create, maintain, and execute performance, stress, capacity, resiliency, and load test scripts for multiple projects. Provide detailed test reports to support accurate evaluations of system under test prior to release to production. Leverage application monitoring tools to support testing. Review logs and monitor disk I/O, CPU, and memory for any performance-related issues. Report performance-related defects to delivery teams. Work with teams to support debugging and root-cause analysis. Periodically conduct peer-reviews of application performance test results ensuring accuracy, clarity, and completeness. Position allows for 100% remote work. Reports to company HQs in Westlake, TX. Subject to Schwab's internal approach to workplace flexibility.
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Salary: $177,366.00 - $253,000.00 per year
What you have
Job Requirements: Bachelor's in Computer Science, Computer Applications, Information Systems, or a related field and 72 months of progressive, post-Bachelor's experience in a related occupation. Experience must include the following: Performance and load testing using streaming real-time market data systems, including multicast, and tcp exchange feeds; Develop workloads and multi-threading frameworks using Java, JavaScript, Groovy compatible JSR223 Samplers; Develop VUGen Scripts, build load-test scenarios, and set up the test execution on load generators; Develop tools and programs using Java and C++ to test application/server/protocol types like Web using HTTPS, Websocket, SOAP/ REST Web Services, FTP, Database via JDBC, and JMS; Utilize Java and C++ profilers and log dump analyzers to identify and debug memory leakage, performance bottlenecks, and connection issues; Develop Shell scripts and Python tools and utilities to collect test data and measure performance, as well as develop SQL scripts to gather and format performance test data as input data for other tools; and Develop performance dashboards to monitor, generate, and report server statistics including CPU Usage, memory and network usage, I/O, processes, thread counts, garbage collection, and bytes/sec using Java, C++, Splunk, App Dynamics, and Grafana.
What's in it for you
At Schwab, we're committed to empowering our employees' personal and professional success. Our purpose-driven, supportive culture, and focus on your development means you'll get the tools you need to make a positive difference in the finance industry. Our Hybrid Work and Flexibility approach balances our ongoing commitment to workplace flexibility, serving our clients, and our strong belief in the value of being together in person on a regular basis.
We offer a competitive benefits package that takes care of the whole you - both today and in the future:
- 401(k) with company match and Employee stock purchase plan
- Paid time for vacation, volunteering, and 28-day sabbatical after every 5 years of service for eligible positions
- Paid parental leave and family building benefits
- Tuition reimbursement
- Health, dental, and vision insurance