The Role

The Performance Test Engineer role will serve as an integral member of a global Agile Product Development team to deliver companies technology products to our external or internal clients. This role works with companies proprietary and/or industry-leading systems and applications, to ensure that these are designed, built and tested according to agreed-upon technical specifications and performance quality standards. You will develop and integrate high quality automated performance tests for products built on the latest software architecture patterns and platforms; you will be part of a forward thinking and technology focused team that seeks to leverage and develop the latest and greatest in the field of performance testing to deliver companies products to the marketplace.

Key Accountabilities / Duties:

• Work with Product, UI/UX, Architecture, IT Ops and Development teams in identifying nonfunctional requirements/performance criteria to define appropriate performance test strategies,
• Be the liaison between technology and Product to help them understand the performance results.
• Tap into available resources to understand client usage patterns and data sizes and reflect that appropriately in load test efforts.
• Define and create the performance test plans and strategic roadmap.
• Create high quality, reliable and reusable performance tests from non-functional requirements and performance quality standards to help get the team closer to the goal of delivering working software to production at the conclusion of every sprint.
• Conduct performance tests; measure, analyze and evaluate performance results; establish benchmarks; and provide summary report/s and recommendation as necessary.
• Work with the development team in the investigation and resolution of performance related issues and bottlenecks.
• Participate in defect review process and continue to identify improvements in preventing and early detection of client production issues related to performance.
• Help support and maintain the goal of continuous and daily automated load/performance test execution and a proper analysis and communication of results.
• Advocate improving performance quality standards and processes during all stages of software development.
• Serve as a champion of load and performance testing, and help support the QA Community of Practice, knowledge sharing sessions, lunch & learn, brown bag sessions, and other learning sessions.
• Conduct trainings and help other Performance Test Engineers and other colleagues.
• Suggest new tools and techniques to improve performance testing efficiency.

The Requirements

• Candidate must possess at least a Bachelor's/College Degree in a technology related discipline, such as IT or Engineering
• Demonstrate a strong understanding of SDLC process and experience in Agile/Scrum framework.
• Experienced with creating performance test scenarios from non-functional requirements and/or User Stories
• Experienced with creating and implementing strategic roadmap for load testing, design standards, tools, architecture
• Working knowledge of load balancing, single/multi tenancy, microservices, cloud, and multi-tier web application architectures
• Applied knowledge and experienced with performance testing categories such as, but not limited to: stress, load, endurance, volume, and scalability testing.
• Applied knowledge or experience with tools such as: WebLOAD from RadView, Visual Studio Enterprise Web Load and Performance Testing, TeamCity, Fiddler, DotTrace Profiler, SQL Server profiler, or other profiling and performance tools
• Experienced in writing SQL queries.
• Nice to have: Experience with any object-oriented programming (C#, Java, etc.) or client side (Javascript, Angular, jQuery, etc.) language.
• Nice to have: Experience in SOAP and REST based Webservices testing
• Experienced working and proactively collaborates with globally distributed development teams and business stakeholders, seeking out information/solution from the appropriate channel/s as necessary
• Excellent organization skills, multitasking ability, manages time effectively by placing the right focus on value adding operations
• Adept and able to summarize results to both technical and non-technical colleagues
• Understanding of test data management strategies to help Performance Testing
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Strong research, analytical, and problem-solving skills

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