Highly Skilled Quality Assurance Professional

Job Title: Senior QA Engineer

We are seeking a highly skilled and analytical professional to lead our application performance testing and regression testing efforts. This critical role involves ensuring the stability, scalability, and reliability of our enterprise applications, particularly as we modernize and migrate existing workloads to cloud environments.

1. Design and Execution: Develop comprehensive performance test plans and strategies for complex enterprise applications, including workload modeling, stress, soak, and scalability testing.
2. Performance Test Scripting: Create and maintain performance test scripts using tools such as JMeter, LoadRunner, or k6, ensuring accurate simulation of user behavior and business transactions.
3. Monitoring and Analysis: Monitor and analyze application performance metrics (e.g., response times, throughput, resource utilization, error rates) using APM tools (e.g., Dynatrace, New Relic, AppDynamics, CloudWatch, Azure Monitor) to identify bottlenecks and areas for optimization.
4. Collaboration and Root Cause Analysis: Collaborate closely with development, DevOps, and cloud engineering teams to pinpoint root causes of performance degradation and recommend solutions.
5. Baselining and Comparison: Conduct performance baselining and compare results against non-functional requirements and pre-migration benchmarks to validate performance improvements or identify regressions.

1. Develop and Execute Regression Test Suites: Develop and execute robust regression test suites to ensure that new features, bug fixes, and especially cloud migrations do not introduce new defects or negatively impact existing application functionality and performance.
2. Verify Migrated Application Integrity: Verify the integrity of migrated applications within AWS and Azure environments, focusing on application-level functionality, data consistency, service interactions, and configuration adherence post-migration.
3. Participate in Cloud Migration Process: Actively participate in all phases of the cloud migration process, focusing specifically on the quality assurance of application functionality, performance, and data integrity within the new cloud landscape.
4. Review and Analyze System Specifications: Review and analyze system specifications, architectural designs, and migration plans to ensure comprehensive test coverage for functional, integration, and performance aspects of migrated applications.

1. Defect Identification and Tracking: Identify, document, and meticulously track defects related to application functionality, performance, and regressions.
2. Collaboration and Coordination: Collaborate effectively with development and cloud engineering teams to prioritize, troubleshoot, and coordinate defect resolution.
3. Testing Reports and Metrics: Generate detailed testing reports and metrics for management review, providing clear insights into application performance, regression status, and overall quality, particularly in the context of cloud migration.

1. Methodology Improvement: Contribute to the continuous improvement of performance and regression testing methodologies, tools, and processes.
2. Shift-Left Adoption: Work with development teams to incorporate performance testing best practices earlier in the development lifecycle.
3. Application Security Considerations: Maintain a fair understanding of application security considerations as they relate to performance and functional integrity.
4. Effective Communication: Communicate complex ideas and technical information clearly and concisely through excellent verbal and written communication skills to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Ai Adoptions: Should adapt to new AI standards in Testing and implement the same in house to improve team productivity and efficiency.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of dedicated experience in Application Performance Testing and Engineering.
• 3+ years of experience in Application Regression Testing, particularly in complex enterprise environments.
• Demonstrated expertise with performance testing tools such as JMeter (strong proficiency required), LoadRunner, or k6.
• Hands-on experience in at least two significant engagements involving the analysis and migration of existing enterprise applications to AWS or Azure, with a focus on ensuring application quality and performance post-migration.
• Solid understanding of application architectures (monolithic, microservices), databases, and network fundamentals.
• Familiarity with APM tools and cloud-native monitoring services (e.g., AWS CloudWatch, Azure Monitor).
• Experience with version control systems (e.g., Git).
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to diagnose performance bottlenecks and root causes of defects.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.