Senior Test Engineer-Performance and load Test Engineer

Senior Performance and load Test Engineer

Skill Sets

• 7+ years of experience in performance, load and reliability testing.
• Basic Cloud Knowledge in Azure is required to conduct various flavors of performance tests and load tests in Cloud environments
• Worked in complex systems and architecture, preferably eCommerce projects where large amounts of load and concurrent user tests involved
• UI/UX Performance Testing
• API Performance and load Testing using JMeter
• Knowledge in Load Balancers, Operating System (Windows/Unix)
• Experience in using Performance Monitoring tools such as Perfmon, New Relic, AppDynamics, Dynatrace or Splunk
• Identify transaction and workflows and calculate workload TPS goals and rates
• Able to calculate think time and pacing
• Log file analysis, run queries and monitor performance
• Understand littles law
• Advanced SQL Skills
• Understanding user behaviors when it comes to app usage
• Interpreting performance test results
• Java/JMeter Scripting
• Familiar in Visual Studio

Roles and responsibilities

• 7+ yrs. Experience in Performance, load and reliability testing
• Expert in designing and executing performance and load tests on UI, and API applications
• Experience working in Agile teams with exposure to detailing PBIs, DSU with multiple stakeholders
• Identify Performance environment and acceptance criteria, test environment configuration, and participate in test planning, design and execution
• Design, develop, and execute performance, Integration, Stress, Load test cases and scripts through analysis of product specifications and software requirements, mentoring other test team members
• Validate production readiness of software applications and infrastructure for stability and performance
• Define requirements and identify appropriate performance and load testing strategies and approach
• Diagnose and resolve performance and load issues and work on performance fine-tuning
• Work with collaborative project management tools, load generators and other tools for performance monitoring
• Skilled in preparing performance and load test bed
• Conduct system performance and load testing to ensure system reliability, capacity and scalability.
• Work with testing team to develop performance and load test plans and cases.
• Analyze test results and coordinate with development teams for bug fixes.
• Generate test summary reports for management review.
• Analyze root causes of performance and load issues and provide corrective actions.
• Develop automated test scenarios and environments for performance and load testing.
• Review and recommend improvements to existing performance and load test procedures
• Suggest new tools and techniques to improve testing efficiency.
• Expected to maintain technical expertise via self-education in the performance/load testing arena, and Quality Assurance
• Report defects found in testing diligently, promptly, and accurately, using standard defect tracking tools

Tracks and communicates task progress, status, and key performance metrics to stake holders with effective communication and formal reports.