Senior Test Engineer

Job Description:

The Senior Performance Tester plays a pivotal role in crafting a comprehensive performance testing strategy, encompassing detailed performance testing requirements and translating these into pertinent scenarios to replicate production. This position is responsible for designing, scripting, and executing load, stress, and scalability testing, as well as delivering exhaustive reports to the project team.

Key Responsibilities:

• Maintain technical expertise in performance/load testing principles and best practices.
• Design and develop solutions for supporting Cloud (Azure DevOps) and CI/CD for SeV utilization.
• Communicate effectively across multiple teams and external vendors (Operations, Project Teams, Quality Service), different personnel (Developers, Technical Team, and Project Managers) when required.
• Monitor server metrics using APM tools.
• Actively participate in continuous improvement measures to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of automation.
• Innovate and implement solutions for industry standards.
• Conduct analysis of business requirements, solution designs, process documentation, etc., for identifying feasible business-critical transactions.
• Implement best performance test practices and standards as part of Enterprise solution.

Operational Management:

• Conduct endurance, stress, load, volume testing to validate production readiness of software applications and infrastructure for stability and performance.
• Provide performance testing software systems support for respective business units.
• Coordinate and execute creation of Test Cases, scripts, and performance test execution.
• Design, develop, and execute scripts that validate, to a high degree of confidence, test cases defined within the projects' test plan.
• Perform load testing across multiple messaging protocols (including HTTP), focusing on overall application performance, validating application response and outputs accurately reflecting business requirements.

Leadership & Governance:

• Mentor and guide junior team members.
• Track and communicate task progress, status, and key performance metrics.
• Use standard defect tracking tool in promptly and accurately reporting defects found in testing.

Requirements:

• 7+ years of performance testing experience.
• Min 5 years of experience with OpenText LoadRunner using protocols Citrix, RDP, Java, and performance testing mobile technologies and database.
• Significant experience working with JMeter and APM tools, including NewRelic and Grafana.
• Proven experience with SOAP Web Services and RESTful Web Services testing using SOAP UI, Postman, and Swagger.
• Strong knowledge and experience in performance testing principles, techniques, and standards, such as test design, test execution, test reporting, and test management.
• Strong knowledge and experience in software development lifecycle (SDLC) and software quality assurance (SQA) processes and practices, such as agile, waterfall, and DevOps.
• Strong knowledge and experience in CI/CD tools and practices, such as Jenkins, Azure Repo, Bitbucket, Azure DevOps, Git, Docker, and Kubernetes.
• Experience working on continuous improvement projects is desirable.
• Experience working in distributed delivery models with teams spread across different regions is highly advantageous.

Personal Attributes:

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and troubleshooting skills.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Strong attention to detail and quality orientation.
• Demonstrate ability to solve technical problems and implement innovative solutions.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Ability to learn new test tools, technologies, and trends quickly and effectively.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks and projects simultaneously and prioritize them.
• Exceptional analytical skills and troubleshooting skills to resolve technical glitches during implementation.