Responsibilities

What will you contribute?

Reporting to the [Manager Role Name], the Quality Assurance Professional will work closely with development engineering and product development teams to understand the performance and other non-functional requirements on projects. This position requires a highly motivated individual that is comfortable with rapid changes in direction and a fluid environment. The successful candidate should be detail-oriented, approachable, dependable, and reliable with good business sense and judgment. This position requires a self-starter with the ability to manage & prioritize multiple concurrent automation and performance testing projects.

Responsibilities & Deliverables:

• Deliver against performance engineering goals
• Execute Performance Engineering and Testing activities leveraging Agile methodology
• Create, re-factor, extend, and maintain performance test scripts.
• Help determine appropriate metrics to be gathered during performance testing and be responsible for analyzing and tracking against these performance testing metrics on an ongoing basis.
• Help determine appropriate benchmarks for performance and be responsible for analysis and tracking against these benchmarks.
• Design and implement performance, scalability, stability, and stress tests using industry standard tools, and custom solutions.
• Assist in driving the performance, scalability, and capacity testing strategy.
• Gather performance test requirements and create performance qualification plans.
• Collaborate with development and production support teams on identification of bottlenecks and performance tuning.
• Benchmark Production and Test Labs for base lining and ensure accuracy of test simulation
• Develop tools to simulate and monitor key performance metrics as needed.
• Understanding of impact of application design on performance.
• Work collaboratively across multiple teams to achieve results.
• Communicate test results vs. test schedule and test plans.

• Experience working within a fast-paced Agile/SCRUM system is a strong preference
• Experience with source control and issue tracking systems.
• Experience with a Test Driven Development (TDD) / Behavior Driven Development (BDD) environment.
• Experience with large complex distributed transactional systems.

• Experience in US banking domain.
• Experience in Microsoft SQL Server, writing SQL queries and understanding stored procedures.
• Experience in JIRA and ALM Octane testing tool.