Technology Professional

**Performance Test Architect (NFR)**

**JOB DESCRIPTION**

The Performance Test Architect is a technical leader in the testing organization and is a strategic participant across many development efforts. The Performance Test Architect sets the overall direction for performance testing throughout the organization. Also, the Architect provides overall leadership on performance test strategy, test environment design and is responsible for the design, enhancement and future growth of performance testing architecture and framework.

**This is your role. What part will you play?**

The Performance Test Architect will:

- Drive the definition and testing of non-functional requirements (NFRs), coordinating the efforts across
- the IT Domain teams that continuously develop and deploy software enhancements and new products
- within the company's technology platform.
- Definition of Performance / NFR test strategies and plans, driving the definition of the test cases
- supporting the testing of NFRs.
- Management and coordination of the test execution across Technology, including the risks and issues
- related to Performance / NFR test delivery.
- Lead the analysis of the current technology environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommend
- solutions for improvement.
- Oversee, and execute, technology implementation and modification activities, particularly for new or
- projects on performance and non-functional requirements matters. Serve as the point of contact for
- non-functional testing initiatives.
- Perform cloud, front and backend in-depth analysis and troubleshooting to identify root cause of
- performance-related issues and provide key recommendations
- Advise and assist delivery teams in design and construction of performant, scalable software solutions
- Recommend and drive key performance optimizations by collaborating across multiple Product
- Development and Service Delivery departments.
- Drive improvements in system availability, reliability and consistency of software performance across
- our product offering
- Effectively communicate risks, employ appropriate risk mitigation strategies and tactics, and engage
- with stakeholders at all levels
- Coaching/mentoring performance test engineers and scrum teams on performance testing best
- practices.
- Provide guidance and direction to performance engineers/testers to ensure high standards of
- deliverables.
- Oversight of portfolio team’s work products: performance strategy plans and results analysis.
- Evaluate new technology stacks against current tool set, implementing appropriate changes as
- necessary.
- Provide technical leadership in the development and implementation of performance engineering
- processes, maintaining performance industry standards and Cloud best practices across the
- organization.
- technologies to enable improvements and innovations on the company's technology platform overall's
- technical performance.

**We don’t need superheroes, just super minds**
- B.E or master’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, or other related field.
- development/engineering, administration and support, and technical performance testing and
- management.
- Strong proven experience in performance test planning, Hands on executing multiple projects
- Experience designing and executing integrated testing and large acceptance testing within industrial
- Testing related certifications (ISTQB (CT-PT), SAFe Agilist etc.)
- QA related publications in developer/tester conferences would be a plus

**TECHNICAL EXPERTISE**
- Proven background in performance and NFR testing from strategy to execution
- Experience of delivering performance testing across SaaS, PaaS and on-premise technologies, in
- particular across solutions implemented in public cloud environments. Experience working in AWS
- environments is highly valued.
- appropriate test design methods to addressing it.
- Experience in architecture documentation e.g. after the arc42 standard
- Experience of Performance Load Modelling.
- Proficient in designing scripts & executing tests using tools like LoadRunner, Apache JMeter,
- Selenium etc.
- Experience on working with Application Performance Management (APM) tools like DataDog,
- AppDynamics, Splunk, Dynatrace to capture various performance metrics such as Response times,
- Throughput, Hits per second, CPU, Garbage Collection, Memory utilization and Memory leaks of the
- Hands-on experience in automating QA across the testing lifecycle (unit testing, integration testing,
- performance testing).
- Hands-on experience working under agile methodologies and DevOps environments. Proficient
- working with DevOps toolchains and CI/CD software delivery models.
- Ability to quickly debug and troubleshoot problems that may arise in work products.
- access control
- Proficiency in program and quality management and issue management.
- Strong OOPS programming skills
- Solid Design Principles
- Hands-on experience in using Git or SVN a