Performance Test Lead
Dallas, TX
6+months
SKILLS: performance engineering, tuning and testing applications (Capacity Planning, Performance Tuning), Provides architecture and application design that ensures scalability.
Job Description:
Experience:
• 10+ years progressive experience focused on Performance Testing, with a minimum 3 years leading a team
• Min 8 years experience using automated test tools for Functional and/or Performance, Stability, Scalability, and Reliability testing using LoadRunner, WebTest, JMeter, Watir, Fit, FitNesse, Ruby or others
• Min 3 years of object oriented programming experience, with C#, Java, Ruby, or C++
• Min 3 years SQL experience and an ability to write intermediate to complex SQL code
• Tenacity to take each performance issue as far as possible, often to the point of being able to suggest a fix
• Entrepreneurial spirit to get great things done for the team and the business
• Possess in-depth knowledge of multiple performance tools (Load Runner / Jmeter / VSTS / NeoLoad, etc.) , web testing, frameworks and infrastructure
• Expertise in performance engineering, tuning and testing applications (Capacity Planning, Performance Tuning)
• Provides architecture and application design that ensures scalability and minimizes performance issues.
• Responsible for capacity estimation/planning, modeling, monitoring, analyzing and recommending solutions to performance problems with enterprise business applications.
• Plan and manage deliverables for: performance diagnostic, capacity planning, performance architecture design, performance tuning, and performance monitoring.
• Conduct system performance and stress testing, analyze test results and suggest action plans.
• Analyzes competitive products and technologies and makes appropriate suggestions (may use demos, POCs) to influence product / technology direction
• Should have experience working directly with customer and working with CoEs.
• Hands on Experience in designing various Performance Framework
Education:
• Bachelor’s degree in science/technology/Engineering, Master’s degree in Science / management (preferable)
Roles & Responsibilities:
Primary Responsibilities:
• Ensure quality for our customers by validating Performance, Stability, Scalability, and Reliability business critical application
• Discover thresholds and data impact, Design and Develop automated Performance, Stability, Scalability, and Reliability tests
• Participate in the constant improvement of our Performance Test Automation practices
• Architect and develop your own tools to facilitate and enhance Performance Testing
• Debug, troubleshoot, and work with team members to find and fix software defects
• Testing at the System, Sub-System, and Component level and create reports that describe detected defects and possible causes
• Gain a technical and functional understanding of our product architecture and become part of the ongoing improvement of the performance of our enterprise application
• Communicate with product analyst in creating acceptance tests as part of the requirements, and execute those tests with whatever automation tools necessary
• Work proactively with members of an Agile team to find and fix defects in our product architecture
• Analyze defects / test results and be able to deduct the chain of events leading to a failure
• Communicate critical issues and status updates in a timely manner to SCRUM team
Job Requirements:
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Experience developing your own testing tools to facilitate performance testing is a major plus
• Microsoft .NET experience
• Microsoft IIS Web server experience
• Ability to work as part of a self-directed Agile team.
Warm Regards,
Sunil Dixit
Canopy One Solutions, Inc.
Office: 703-831-8282 x257