Sr. Performance QA Engineer-REMOTE
Sr. Performance QA Engineer - REMOTE.
- TASKS:
- Work with technical architects and developers to identify potential performance bottlenecks for each application subject to performance testing.
- Work with business owners, business analysts and functional testers to identify application workflows, uses cases, and test cases that should be covered by performance testing scenarios.
- Communicate to business owners, development teams, and technical architects, I policies and standards that applications should comply with to be accepted from performance point of view.
- Work with business owners to identify the load application is expected to support.
- Work with the performance test manager to determine the right tool for performance testing.
- Develop performance test scripts covering previously selected business scenarios.
- Identify performance test types needed to verify application performance (stress, stability, breakpoint test, etc.) based on business needs and the nature of the product.
- Identify test monitoring points and support teams needed to help monitor the test.
- Open change request and make sure all required support teams are available for the time of test.
- Prepare test execution scenario to cover all test types and load parameters (number of concurrent users, pace at which users start and stop, etc.).
- Monitor and execute tests from selected pool of test types.
- Analyze test results, identify encountered performance issues, communicate the findings to the project teams, and suggest fixes for performance issues.
- Upon receiving acceptable test results provide sign off for application to go live.
- Contribute to development and documenting of Citywide performance test standards and best practices.
- Participate in researching available performance test technologies and application technologies to be covered by the performance testing for City applications.
- Assist support team in identifying root cause of the problems by reproducing production performance issues in QA Staging environment.
- Prepare and execute performance tests to identify infrastructure readiness to support the application.
- Assist other Quality Assurance team members in preparing and executing performance tests
- Participate in the assisting Quality Assurance team in maintaining the QA lab for performance testing and other purposes and supporting test management tools like Quality Center.
- Create and/or contribute in the design of the following deliverables:
- Performance Test Plans & Test Strategy.
- Detailed Test Cases, test conditions.
- Performance matrix.
- Test Scripts.
- Results of test execution.
- Analyze application functionality and determine components to be covered by performance testing.
- Develop and document performance test scripts covering selected functionality.
- Prepare and set-up test scenarios for each type of performance test & determine and configure monitoring points for them.
- Execute and monitor performance tests.
- Report performance test results and contribute to resolving performance issues and performance tuning.
- Provide sign off to go live if exit criteria are achieved.
- Help other QA team member to prepare and execute performance tests and learn performance testing tools.
- Contribute to the development, maintenance and support of performance testing lab and environment as well as other QA labs, test management and automation test tools.
MANDATORY SKILLS/EXPERIENCE
- Note: Candidates who do not have the mandatory skills will not be considered
- 8+ years of overall software testing experience.
- 7+ years of performance test experience with OpenText/Microfocus Performance Center/LoadRunner
- 3+ years of solid hands-on experience with Azure and/or AWS and knowledge of various cloud services.
- Understanding of API Gateways, proxies, and concepts of securing API endpoints (e.g., rate limiting, API tokens).
- Experience with relational (e.g., PostgreSQL) and no-SQL (e.g., MongoDB) databases.
- Experience with Git, Azure DevOps Pipelines, or equivalent CI/CD tools.
- A team player with excellent communication skills, both written and oral, interpersonal, organizational skills, and problem-solving ability to work with customers and other non- technical end users on complex issues.
- Has a high degree of responsibility and can work as an independent contributor to accomplish program goals.
- Must have sound technical writing skills and be able to produce clear documentation.
- DESIRABLE SKILLS/EXPERIENCE:
- Experience using Azure services for App Service, Logic Apps, Blob Storage, Data Lake, etc.
- Knowledge of Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services
- Experience with Azure Monitoring services
Job Type: Contract
Work Location: Remote
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