Sr. Performance Test Engineer Job Description Template
Our company is looking for a Sr. Performance Test Engineer to join our team.
Responsibilities:
- Facilitate agile teams delivery with high degree of focus on quality & timeliness;
- Escalate issues & communicate the status of deliverables to key stake holders;
- Provide leadership and work with the team in managing scope, issue resolution, project priorities, support & operations;
- Keep leadership apprised on the progress, risks in performance testing practice with timely updates, metrics & reports as required;
- Must have strong interpersonal skills, capable of working both independently as well as part of a team;
- Act as subject matter expert on LoadRunner and Performance Center 12.5;
- Provide automated reporting of tests and test results;
- Ability to effectively multi-task & adapt to changing business priorities;
- Production, preparation and execution of unit test plans;
- Quantitative tracking of project quality and completeness;
- Prevent recurrence of issues by identifying trends and implementing fix;
- Ensure full system and interface testing coverage prior to system delivery and implementation;
- Ability to collaborate with cross-functional, project managers, offshore & nearshore resource teams;
- Load and performance testing developing, execution and reporting;
- Develop performance test strategy/planning, test case development and coding.
Requirements:
- Analytical and problem-solving abilities, effectively prioritize & execute tasks in a high-pressured environment;
- BS in Computer Science with professional work experience in HPE Load Runner and Performance Center 11+ years;
- Experience working in fast paced, startup, agile environments is a must;
- Ability to conduct POCs & research into load testing technologies, standards, & products;
- SQL programming experience is must;
- Knowledge of data privacy practices & laws, especially HIPPA, PHI & PCI Compliance;
- Programming experience using one or more performance testing tools such as HP LoadRunner;
- Ability to interpret, diagnose, and recommend technical performance issues and translate them into possible solutions;
- Experience with JMeter & Blaze meter is desired;
- Skilled in performing load/performance assessments and providing recommendations to correct performance/load bottlenecks;
- Ability to analyze APM data from test results using tools such as Dynatrace, Zabbix, AWS Cloudwatch and SCOM;
- Performance/load testing expertise;
- Good background in JIRA, ITIL, Kanban, Asana, TFS or RTC.