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INTRODUCTION

At ValueMomentum’s Technology Center, we are a team of passionate engineers who thrive on tackling complex business challenges with innovative solutions while transforming the P&C insurance value chain. We achieve this through a strong engineering foundation and continuously refining our processes, methodologies, tools, agile delivery teams, and core engineering archetypes. Our core expertise lies in six key areas: Cloud Engineering, Application Engineering, Data Engineering, Core Engineering, Quality Engineering, and Domain expertise. We are establishing a Sustaining Engineering team focused on improving performance, stability, reliability, and observability of the Guidewire platform (PolicyCenter, BillingCenter, and integrations).

ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Engagement Overview

- Role Type: Contract - SOW
- Team: Sustaining Engineering
- Work Model: Cross-team, platform-focused
- Reporting Structure:
- Reports into Sustaining Engineering
- Dotted line to internal Performance Engineer
- Primary Goal: Improve overall system health through root cause identification and measurable validation of fixes

Key Objectives

- Support remediation of Guidewire Platform Health findings (performance, integration, stability)
- Establish or enhance performance and reliability testing strategy
- Baseline, measure, and track:
- Latency
- Throughput
- Error rates
- Integration success/failure rates
- Batch/job stability and success rates
- Validate that fixes result in measurable improvements in system health
- Contribute to a repeatable, scalable performance and reliability testing practice

Core Responsibilities

Performance & System Testing

- Design and execute:
- Performance, load, and stress tests
- End-to-end system tests across PolicyCenter and BillingCenter
- Validate system behavior under normal and peak conditions

Integration & Distributed System Validation

- Test and analyze:
- API interactions
- Asynchronous processing / messaging flows
- Cross-system data movement (PC ↔ BC)
- Identify and diagnose integration failures and inconsistencies

Batch & Work Queue Stability

- Validate:
- Batch job execution and performance
- Work queue processing and failure handling
- Identify retry issues, bottlenecks, and backlog risks

Root Cause Analysis

- Analyze:
- Application-layer bottlenecks
- JVM/thread behavior
- Database query performance
- API latency and failure points
- Distinguish root causes vs symptoms

Observability & Error Analysis

- Analyze system logs and monitoring outputs
- Identify:
- High-noise vs actionable errors
- Gaps in logging and monitoring
- Recommend improvements to observability

Engineering Collaboration

- Partner with developers to address:
- Query optimization
- Code-level performance issues
- Integration reliability
- Error handling improvements
- Translate findings into clear, actionable recommendations

Validation & Reporting

- Provide before/after metric validation for fixes
- Support sprint/release reviews with quantifiable improvements
- Help establish consistent reporting on system health

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

Technical Capabilities

- Strong experience in performance and reliability testing in distributed systems
- Hands-on experience with performance testing tools:
- JMeter, Gatling, LoadRunner, or similar
- Experience testing system integrations:
- APIs (REST/SOAP)
- Async processing / messaging systems

System Analysis Skills

- Ability to analyze:
- JVM / thread behavior
- Database queries and performance
- API latency and throughput
- Batch/job execution patterns
- Experience diagnosing:
- Integration failures
- High error volumes and log noise
- Systemic vs localized issues

Working Style

- Strong root cause analysis mindset (not just defect identification)
- Ability to translate technical findings into actionable insights
- Comfortable working in cross-team, platform-level environments

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience with Guidewire (PolicyCenter and BillingCenter strongly preferred)
- Insurance domain knowledge (policy and billing flows)
- Experience with:
- Batch processing / job scheduling systems
- Observability tools (e.g., DataDog)
- Background in:
- SRE (Site Reliability Engineering)
- Platform engineering
- Systems-level QA

SUCCESS CRITERIA

The contractor will be successful if they demonstrate:
- Measurable improvements in:
- System performance (latency, throughput)
- Integration reliability (reduced cross-system failures)
- Batch/work queue stability
- Reduction in error noise and improved observability
- Consistent ability to identify true root causes across system layers
- Clear contribution to sustained system health improvements
- Establishment of repeatable performance and reliability testing practices

JOB DESCRIPTION

- Work on Performance Test Strategies/Test Plans
- Identify Performance Test Requirements/Test Scenarios
- Define and Validate Workload Models with the Project Teams
- Create Test Case Workflow/Performance Test Scripts
- Validate Monitoring tools
- Validate Test Environments are ready, available, accurate, etc.
- Define, communicate and plan test schedule/windows
- Execute test per planned windows and analyze executed tests
- Document defects in Microfocus Quality Center
- Review Test Results
- Create Results Report

MANDATORY SKILLS

- Experience in Performance testing, monitoring and analysis with excellent reporting skills
- Experience in Test Strategy, Test Design, Test Plan report
- Experience in creating performance test scripts using different protocols like Web (HTTP/HTML), TruClient, Web Services, REST and .Net applications
- Experience in creating different types of scenarios to simulate different load and user patterns for Stress Test, Peak Load Test, Endurance Test, Volume test and other different types of tests
- Experience in tools like Loadrunner, Jmeter, AppDynamics, Splunk (or other APM Tools) for Web/App and DB layers
- Good experience on Performance testing of the Web (HTTP/HTML), TruClient, Web Services, REST and .Net applications
- Proficiency in one or more general purpose programming languages
- Good understanding of agile methodologies and agile performance testing
- Knowledge of Storm Runner tool
- Ability to work in a team in a diverse/multiple stakeholder environment
- Good communication skills
- Good analytical skills
- Experience and desire to work in a Global delivery environment

DESIRED SKILLS

- Experience in WAS tuning, JVM tuning, PL SQL tuning experience
- Working knowledge in debugging of performance scripts, identification of performance bottlenecks using drill down analysis using monitoring tools; Interaction with various stakeholders for performance issue resolution
- Development performance testing solution for small services in DevOps world
- Strong understanding of techniques such as Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Test Driven Development, Cloud Development, application resiliency and security
- Experience in working for cloud-based application performance testing and tuning
- Experience in CI/CD pipeline for performance testing.