Performance Tester

Job Title: Performance Tester

Duration: Long term

Location: San Diego, CA, Pensacola, FL, and Vienna, VA (Hybrid/2 Days onsite each week)

Top Required Skills:

Experienced in scripting

Experienced in understanding user behavior

Experienced in understanding architecture (end-to-end)

Experienced in solving complex issues

Experienced with NeoLoad and/or LoadRunner

Job Description:

You will be responsible for designing, implementing, and supporting performance testing across our digital platforms. Identifying the stability, scalability, speed, and responsiveness of non-functional software in a given workload. Ensuring that critical components of an application perform as expected under varying user loads.

Responsibilities:

Performs stress, load, regression, and performance testing to validate production readiness of software applications and infrastructure for stability and performance

Build modular automated performance test scripts to identify load and scalability concerns for web-based and mobile applications.

Utilizing load, stress, and analysis tools to model performance scenarios, perform initial analysis using performance monitoring tool and identify potential system and resources bottlenecks

Communicate and collaborate with operational support teams to ensure testing requirements are identified and included in the test plan

Design, develop, and execute performance test cases and scripts through analysis of product specifications and software requirements

Collects, analyzes, and reports performance testing results to the project, program, and business stakeholders

Reviews the performance test scripts created or modified by peers to ensure compliances with standards

Collaborates with the test automation team to leverage reusability of existing scripts

Develop automated test scenarios for performance testing to make sure applications can handle traffic, users, and data exchanges in an acceptance manner

Make recommendations to improve product performance, scalability, and availability metrics

Testing within an agile team to include writing, executing, and debugging automated and manual test cases.

Design, implement and maintain performance test frameworks

Work with cross-functional teams to ensure quality throughout the software development lifecycle

Qualifications – knowledge, skills, and abilities:

6+ years of hands-on experience in software testing.

6+ years hands-on experience in performance testing

Extensive knowledge in monitoring the performance of applications under test using CA APM, Splunk, and cloud monitoring tools

Hands-on experience in Agile performance testing projects

Extensive knowledge of DevSecOps, automated testing, and script development with NeoLoad and/or LoadRunner to performance test non-functional behaviors of applications

Extensive knowledge of the software testing lifecycle.

Proficient with Grafana for visualizing data/metrics

Proficient with InfluxDB for storage and retrieval of time series data analytics.

Proficient working in Azure DevOps

Strong communication, analytical and problem-solving skills.

Strong knowledge in functional, regression, and performance automation testing for highly structural and complex systems

Strong knowledge of JAVA programming language.

Strong knowledge of understanding test processes (requirement analysis, test scenario design, test case creation, test scripting and status reporting to stakeholders for testing services).

Create a performance test strategy document: set approach, metrics, benchmarks, baseline, user response requirements environments, and toolsets to use in executing the performance testing.

Qualifications – Not required, but a plus to have

Strong knowledge in Selenium, Cucumber, TestNG, Maven, Postman, Rest Assured Library, JDBC Driver, Perfecto, Appium, GIT (version control), Strong knowledge of CI/CD pipelines