Senior Capacity-Technology Performance Management Consultant

Optum is a global organization that delivers care, aided by technology to help millions of people live healthier lives. The work you do with our team will directly improve health outcomes by connecting people with the care, pharmacy benefits, data and resources they need to feel their best. Here, you will find a culture guided by inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health optimization on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Serving as a core member of an engineering team that designs and develops performance test scripting for Pega Based applications
• Assists in the diagnosis and resolution of an issue, including the determination and provision of workaround solution or escalation to BAs, SSAs, LSAs, Pega Client Support
• Identifies and proposes PRPC enhancements from trends in requirements
• Demonstrates an understanding of both the business process(es) and the technical application of the Framework(s) worked on
• Identifies Performance Test Framework enhancements or modifications made at client sites in order to meet project functional requirements or to meet ongoing compliance need
• Comply with all applicable Company policies, procedures, and business directives, changes including those relating to work location, team assignments, work schedules, and flexible work arrangements.
  

Required Qualifications:

• 7+ years of experience working on software development projects 
• Hands on experience in Performance Tools like HP Load Runner, JMeter, Blaze Meter CYARA etc.
• Experience working with enterprise level profiling and monitoring tools e.g., Dynatrace, HP Diagnostics, Splunk, App Dynamics, Grafana, SiteScope, Zabbix
• Experience in performance, capacity, and endurance testing, as well as results analysis and recommended remediation is required - JMeter experience is a must
• Worked on deploying the application builds, importing/exporting database schemas, configuring data sources in the app server, configuring the application in the Performance environments etc.
• Team leadership and team management experience 
• Experience prototyping and performance tuning applications deployed across multiple operating systems, languages and computing platforms
• Good understanding of JVM tuning, GC logs, Memory leaks, JConsole, JVisualVM, and AWR, ADDM report analysis and NMON reports
• Good knowledge on installing WebLogic Server and Oracle database servers on the OCI
• Familiarity with agile methodologies (i.e. SCRUM) 
• Familiarity with hosting Pega applications on OpenShift platforms 
• Proven ability to organize and facilitate discussions with 5+ people (all levels) 
• Proven solid oral and written communications 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Expertise in performance testing script development using various protocols like Web- HTTP/HTML, Web Services, SAP Web Writing performance scripts for Pega based application
• Knowledge on POSTGRESQL
• Knowledge on K8 will be an added advantage
• Healthcare domain knowledge

At UnitedHealth Group, our mission is to help people live healthier lives and make the health system work better for everyone. We believe everyone-of every race, gender, sexuality, age, location and income-deserves the opportunity to live their healthiest life. Today, however, there are still far too many barriers to good health which are disproportionately experienced by people of color, historically marginalized groups and those with lower incomes. We are committed to mitigating our impact on the environment and enabling and delivering equitable care that addresses health disparities and improves health outcomes - an enterprise priority reflected in our mission.