Job Description :
Position Summary:
The Quality Engineering Performance Specialist is responsible for leading the evaluation and testing for new or modified software programs as part of complex systems. Provides leadership in the development of QA processes and procedures. Candidates will be a part of the software quality assurance team for any internal or external application development projects
Key Responsibilities
Build a performance engineering culture and actively champion performance and reliability in all parts of the SDLC.
Own Performance, Scalability, Reliability, High Availability testing functions
Align performance testing goals, initiatives, processes, and execution with QA strategic plans.
Lead and develop a process of Performance Engineering, lead performance testing activities and provide leadership to the performance testing team members.
Guide engineering teams through technical analysis to resolve performance issues.
Work closely with business and engineering teams to derive capacity planning and forecasting models to identify bottlenecks and provide tuning recommendations. •
Refine volumes of data, analyze performance results, diagnose performance problems, and clearly articulate application/system performance to stakeholders.
Create performance test strategy which includes performance testing built in CI/CD at various points: Dev, QA Regression, etc.
Plan, design, implement, execute, and maintain performance test framework(s) and tools to enable performance testing and analysis.
Develop and publish accurate performance test results, determine and communicate the performance risk of go-live.
Develop optimizations to improve performance, scalability, and reliability
Test, debug, and measure the performance of implemented features.
Design post-deployment system performance testing and monitoring, working with DevOps and Engineering.
Job Qualifications:
Education and Training
Required - 4-year College Degree or Foreign equivalent in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
Business Experience
10+ years in software quality assurance or equivalent experience.
Specialized Knowledge and Skills:
Required Experience
5-7 years’ experience in Performance Engineering
Expertise in creating performance test plans at the component and end to end level.
End-to-End Performance Engineering across all tiers (UX / UI, Network, Web Server, Application Server, Database Server, Hardware & Storage, etc
Hands-on experience in performance analysis of infrastructure, application, and system levels using profiling tools to identify bottlenecks in CPU, memory, network, etc.
Direct contributions to application / system performance analysis and tuning for projects
Experience in benchmarking and sizing. Ability to articulate and create performance benchmarks and baselines.
Good working knowledge of distributed system testing.
Experience with micro services architecture.
Strong experience in creation of performance test strategy, design, planning, load modeling, and elicitation of non-functional requirements for testing.
Experienced in troubleshooting and resolution of production performance issues.
Proficiency in Enterprise Performance Testing, Monitoring, and Analysis tools (or similar) such as: JMeter, JProfiler, JUnit, New Relic, AppDymamics
Experience with (or similar): Java, Python, JavaScript, Message queues (RabbitMQ), Web Services, REST APIs, SoapUI.
Expertise of performance testing in areas, including: Stress, Load, Spike, Endurance and Scalability.
Ability to write complex test scripts that are portable, re-usable, and maintainable
Working Conditions:
Environment
Candidate is expected to work in General office environment. Occasional travel may be required. Candidate may be asked to work overtime occasionally. They must be flexible for various project assignments whenever needed.