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Senior Performance Tester

Employer
Kairos Technologies Inc
Location
Bethesda, MD
Closing date
Oct 19, 2019

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Greeting's From Kairos Technologies. Position: Senior Performance Tester Location: Bethesda, MD Full Time Direct Client Must Have: TOSCA Minimum Experience Minimum of 5 years of direct hands-on experience with load and performance testing with performance testing and tools (LoadRunner or JMeter). Minimum 5 years of proven experience managing and leading QA/Dev activities on a project, to include experience reviewing test deliverables, defects, test results created by team members. Minimum 5 years of experience with database analysis and validation Must have strong SQL knowledge. Specialized Knowledge & Skills Experience creating, executing and managing automation scripts (QTP, WinRunner, RFT, Visual Studio, Selenium, Cucumber etc.). Performance monitoring tool - Dynatrace(Nice to Have) Good knowledge of SQL, query execution plans, and optimization techniques Good understanding of core Java, server side Java technologies, and Spring frameworks Good knowledge of Linux environment Thorough understanding of throughput, latency, memory and CPU utilization Experience with cloud base technology, AWS and devops tools a plus. Extensive experience in functional, regression, system integration (SIT), user acceptance (UAT), GUI, security, and performance/stress testing; data-validation, browser and Operating System (OS) compatibility testing. Experience working on Agile teams, using Scrum methodologies. Strong experience in working with developers, system analysts and business partners to establish response time and TPS requirements and creating tests that accurately measure against them Must have: experience with performance diagnostics, performance architecture design, performance tuning, performance monitoring, capacity planning, and/or software development in a n-tier environment Experience designing discipline that resolves critical and complex application performance issues. Identifies and drives optimization changes in the application design to improve customer experience for mission/business critical IT applications Key Job Functions: Develops and communicates performance, load and stress testing goals, priorities, and status. Support defining Performance Testing Strategy Identifies metrics for monitoring increased performance and scalability Provides guidance for performance test initiatives that take a true end-to-end focus on ensuring client side, server tiers, database and data integration jobs are performing as expected Conducts performance prototyping, system capacity modeling and projections, performance driven design, application profiling and base-lining to measure and improve system performance Troubleshoots performance, load , and stress testing through analysis of system design/coding Strategizes, plans and manages End to End performance solutions for the applications/ Infrastructure in scope Recommends best practices and ensure adherence to the best practices Provides training/mentoring/educating of team members Ensure the functional and non-functional requirements of the business units are met by undertaking a thorough and comprehensive review of set of tests on programming changes that are produced by development and testing staff. Act as the point of contact with our partner organizations for performance testing activities through the project lifecycle Review each entire application stack and design, prepare and execute performance test plans to identify performance and scalability issues Work with team to plan sprints and test planning for the modules Work with our module teams to design, develop, and execute scripts which validate, to a high degree of confidence, test cases defined within the project's test plan. Support the automated load/performance testing by our partners across multiple messaging protocols (including HTTP), focusing on overall application performance - validating that application response and outputs accurately reflect business requirements. Report defects found in testing diligently, promptly, and accurately, using standard defect tracking tools. Communicate effectively across multiple teams/external vendors (Operations, Project Teams, Quality Service, etc.), as well as different personnel (Developers, Scrum Masters, Project Managers, etc.) when required. Perform data analysis when needed to analyze issues in Performance and/or Production environments. Conduct troubleshooting/performance test execution in support of remediation efforts as required. Analyze data and application changes and document their impact on the performance testing task (test cases, scripting, scenario execution, etc.). Ensure the test execution results fulfill the defined test objectives and schedule/recommend test re-execution if and as necessary. Ensure the appropriate testing and monitoring tools/technologies are configured accordingly with the test objectives/project team requirements. Work with our partners to establish test data in sufficient quantity to support the performance testing effort Active participant in the meeting(s) to verify firewall openings between performance testing software and that of the application. Maintain up-to-instance repository of artifacts related to performance test executions. Perform initial debugging procedures by reviewing configuration files, logs, or code pieces to determine breakdown source. Adhere to defect tracking process; document software defects, using a defect tracking tool (Quality Center), monitor the progress in a timely manner, escalate aging and priority defects. Deliver timely and accurate communication of testing events, daily status, and test execution results Regards Kalyan | Lead Executive-TAG | Kairos Technologies Inc. O: 972.366.7688 x 317 | E: kalyan@kairostech.com 433 E Las Colinas Blvd, # 1240, Irving, TX 75039 US

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