Performance Test Lead

Working as a member of testing delivery team, responsible for all aspects of performance testing (analysis, design, coding, execution and maintenance). The objectives of performance testing are to: measure the performance and behavior of the solution in a pre-production environment under a variety of conditions to validate it meets the non-functional performance requirements, and to observe the behaviors and trends in performance and behaviors under load or stress.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Customer interface and Service leadership
• Identify test environment requirements
• Develop Performance Test Scripts
• Execute Performance Test Scripts, analyze results, log defects, report testing outcomes
• Ensure performance testing deliverables comply with agreed applicable standards/practices

Experience

• Superior knowledge of the performance scripting best practices
• Superior knowledge of performance testing tools and methodologies as necessary for the assigned project
• Prior and comparable experience in the role being assigned to
• Proficient in executing the responsibilities of the role being assigned to
• Strong analytical skills
• Extreme attention to detail
• Service Leadership (it's a customer facing role)
• Expert knowledge of the Performance Testing competencies
• Proficient in Performance Engineering

Technologies Needed

• Performance Centre
• SOA (testing web services)
• Network / architecture
• Client Quality Center
• Tools Experience required
• Client Performance Centre (SaaS)
• SQL Management Studio (SQL Query Analyzer)
• ALM / Quality Centre v11
• Jira defect management tool
• Wily Introscope and other application / network monitoring tools