LoadRunner Enterprise (LRE) Administrator

Job Title: LoadRunner Enterprise (LRE) Administrator
Experience: 5-8 Years
Grade: P3
Location: Chennai Only
Notice Period: Immediate to 30 Days
JR ID: 1495700

Role Overview

We are looking for an experienced LoadRunner Enterprise (LRE) Administrator to manage the installation, configuration, administration, maintenance, and support of OpenText/Micro Focus LoadRunner Enterprise environments.

The candidate will be responsible for maintaining platform availability, stability, security, and performance while supporting enterprise performance-testing teams. The role involves administration of users, projects, controllers, load generators, integrations, upgrades, monitoring, and troubleshooting.

Key Responsibilities

LRE Platform Administration

• Install, configure, upgrade, patch, and maintain LoadRunner Enterprise environments.
• Administer LRE Servers, Controllers, Load Generators, MI Listeners, and Analysis components.
• Create and manage projects, domains, users, roles, permissions, and access controls.
• Perform regular environment health checks and capacity planning.
• Monitor platform availability, performance, and resource utilization.

Infrastructure & Environment Management

• Manage Windows and Linux servers supporting LRE infrastructure.
• Configure and maintain host pools, load generators, network settings, and test infrastructure.
• Troubleshoot connectivity, firewall, SSL/TLS, server, and infrastructure-related issues.
• Coordinate with infrastructure, network, database, security, and application teams.

Performance Test Environment Support

• Provision and allocate performance-testing resources based on project requirements.
• Support workload execution, test scheduling, and test-run management.
• Configure and maintain distributed load-testing environments.
• Ensure controllers and load generators are available during test execution.
• Support performance engineering teams during critical test cycles.

Integration & Automation

• Integrate LRE with:
• Jenkins
• Azure DevOps
• ALM/QC
• Service Management tools
• Support CI/CD-based performance testing.
• Enable automated performance-test execution through release pipelines.
• Support scripting and automation of administrative activities.

Monitoring & Troubleshooting

• Monitor LRE platform health, capacity, and system resources.
• Analyze application and platform logs to identify issues.
• Troubleshoot:
• Controller failures
• Load Generator connectivity issues
• Authentication and authorization problems
• Test execution failures
• Database connectivity/issues
• Network and firewall-related issues
• Perform root-cause analysis and coordinate resolution of incidents.

Security & Compliance

• Manage LRE user access, authentication, roles, and authorization.
• Implement enterprise security and access-control standards.
• Configure and troubleshoot SSL/TLS certificates and secure communication.
• Support audit, compliance, backup, and recovery activities.

Documentation & Governance

• Maintain SOPs, runbooks, architecture diagrams, and administration guides.
• Prepare reports related to platform usage, capacity, availability, and incidents.
• Support operational reviews, governance activities, and audits.
• Identify opportunities for platform optimization and automation.

Mandatory Skills

• LoadRunner Enterprise (LRE) / OpenText LoadRunner Enterprise
• LoadRunner Professional / VuGen
• Performance Center Administration
• Controller and Load Generator Administration
• ALM/QC Administration
• Windows Server Administration
• Linux Administration
• SQL Server / Oracle Database
• IIS / Apache / Tomcat
• Performance Testing concepts and lifecycle
• Network and Firewall troubleshooting
• SSL/TLS configuration

Preferred Skills

• Azure DevOps
• Jenkins
• Dynatrace
• AppDynamics
• Splunk
• Grafana
• PowerShell
• Shell scripting
• Python automation
• Azure / AWS cloud platforms

Key Competencies

• Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills
• Good understanding of the performance-testing lifecycle
• Strong infrastructure and environment management experience
• Incident and problem management
• Stakeholder coordination and communication
• Automation and process-improvement mindset
• Ability to work in enterprise production environments