Senior Performance Testing Engineer

Key Responsibilities :

• Defines Performance Testing strategy based on the requirements, gathered statistics, application architecture and its components and discuss it with customer.
• Gathers or advises customer how to gather necessary statistics.
• Has basic knowledge concerning risk management, able to share main risks that can have an impact on the process and performance.
• Selects proper testing tools, sets up test environment.
• Develops complex scenarios with mix of transactions and distribution across components.
• Automates Performance Testing process, include it into delivery pipeline, able to share with customer its pros and cons.
• Runs performance tests in / from a cloud and against application in a cloud.
• Incorporates client-side testing into performance delivery.
• Investigates performance problems on various levels (application / database / network / infrastructure), understands how to drill down the problem and corresponding approaches and tools.
• Creates necessary test documentation and organize regular reporting to project management.
• Actively participates and presents results in project meeting, retrospective, demos.
• Participates in regular product performance reviews with customer.
• Shares knowledge with colleagues.
• Sets up Performance Testing for a project.
• Actively mentors less experienced colleagues.

Qualifications :

• Should have more than 6+ years of experience
• Good understanding of methodology, including specific types of tests and approaches. Able to select appropriate strategy for the exact goals.
• Experience with work planning, defining stories, tasks, estimations.
• Able to integrate Performance Testing into existing process.
• Has experience and good understanding how to investigate performance problems on various levels, knows tools for the analysis.
• Has knowledge and experience with tuning and optimization of the system under test to reach performance goals.
• Experience and good understanding of both server and client side testing and analysis.

Tools :

Is able to investigate performance issues either with APM or with specific tools like profilers.

• for load testing : Jmeter, Gatling, Load Runner, Carrier, or similar
• for monitoring : monitoring in Cloud platform (Azure, AWS), Grafana, datadog,
• for profiling : data trace, Visual VM

Software Process Knowledge :

Knows differences between various process like waterfall, scrum, kanban etc. Able to discuss preferable process for Performance Testing, organize self work in one of the process and follow defined process.

Documentation skills :

Able to read and understand project and requirement documentation. Able to create strategy, plans and high-level overview of the process.

Able to create reports for various audience, define templates for the reports taking into account its purposes.

Project Roles : Key Performance Analyst or Key Tester

Reliability : Works independently without direct supervision.

Quality : Creates deliverables in good quality.

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