Performance Test Engineer

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the release & service teams to identify & define mitigation strategies for release performance risks.
• Implement performance risk mitigation activities including JMeter/LoadRunner test scripts, manual activities & custom code.
• Summarise technical analysis to formulate clear execution results for non-technical stakeholders
• Develop a strong understanding of the integrated environment to assist in the identification of integration, functional & performance defects.
• Identify and implement areas of process & test improvements.
• Identify, define and manage test data requirements across multiple integrated systems.

Skills

• 3+ years' experience in delivering performance testing in a large organisation
• Must possess a strong knowledge of enterprise application architecture and technologies including web, web services, JMS and Oracle databases.
• Must also have a strong understanding of the monitoring solutions and KPIs used to determine performance of these technology stacks.
• Must have a strong ability in analysing performance metrics and reporting these performance indicators to both technical and business stakeholders.
• Must be able to create performance scripts for HTTP, SOAP, JMS protocols using JMeter and HP LoadRunner.
• Must possess an understanding of Agile software development methodology.
• Experience in working in an Agile team is desired.
• Must be able to adapt quickly to unforeseen project issues and provide alternate paths forward to maintain project velocity
• Must possess strong experience using and implementing best practice process with respect to load generation, bottleneck analysis and statistical analysis.
• Must have excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Tools/Languages:

Required - JMeter, Taurus, Java, LoadRunner, AMQ/WMQ, Bash/Shell scripting, SQL, Swagger & RESTful API

Desired - Jenkins, Groovy, Perl, Python, AppDynamics, Splunk, JAVA