Senior/Lead Performance Tester - Load & Stress Testing
- Leading Client
- 8 - 13 years
- Kolkata
- 1 month ago
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Job Description
Role & Responsibilities :
- Define Performance Testing Objectives and Scope
- Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business goals, user expectations, and technical requirements.
- Define the objectives and scope of performance testing, including the types of tests, metrics to measure, and load scenarios.
- Develop comprehensive test plans and strategies that cover all aspects of performance testing, such as environment setup, data preparation, test execution, monitoring, analysis, and reporting
- Create realistic and reliable test scripts and scenarios that emulate real-world user behavior and workload.
- Use appropriate tools and techniques to develop and execute these scripts
- Ensure the test environment mimics the production environment as closely as possible.
- Manage hardware, software, network, and security resources to support testing activities
- Monitor System Performance
- Collect and analyze various performance metrics such as response time, throughput, error rates, and resource utilization during tests
- Identify system strengths and weaknesses, bottlenecks, and root causes of performance issues. Provide actionable insights and recommendations for improvement
- Create detailed reports that summarize findings and recommendations. Include relevant metrics, graphs, charts, and logs to support conclusions.
- Regularly update stakeholders, including developers, QA teams, and project managers, on test progress, issues, and results.
- Conduct meetings to discuss findings and secure approvals
- Guide and support junior testers, ensuring they understand their roles and responsibilities. Provide training and share best practices
- Work closely with development, QA, and operations teams to ensure performance testing is integrated into the development lifecycle
- Keep abreast of the latest performance testing tools, techniques, and best practices. Implement improvements to enhance testing efficiency and effectiveness
- Review and Update Testing Artifacts. Ensure all testing artifacts, such as test plans, scripts, and reports, are accurate, complete, and up-to-date
Must Have :
- Proficient experience in creating load test plans, executing and monitoring tests, analyzing results, and identifying application optimization opportunities.
- Solid understanding of performance concepts and tuning, including Garbage Collection, CPU cycles, memory utilization, and context switching.
- Expertise in Web/Mobile Application and Web Services (SOAP and REST APIs) scripting and performance engineering.
- Expertise in performance testing tools like JMeter for benchmark, load, stress, and other non-functional tests.
- Strong experience in Test Planning, Test Estimation, Test Strategy, and Workload Design.
- Experience coordinating testing processes across teams such as DBA, Dev, or System Admins.
- Ability to troubleshoot and conduct root cause analysis (RCA) for production issues.
- Experience with performance engineering tools such as LoadRunner and JMeter, as well as performance monitoring tools like Dynatrace and Splunk.
- Good Oracle DB knowledge with an understanding of SQL execution plans, AWR, and SQLT reports.
Good to Have :
- Experience with Kubernetes/Docker/OpenShift application platforms and container-based applications.
- Knowledge of enterprise integration technologies like Web Services, MQ, DB.
- Familiarity with Visio, Gantt chart, and SharePoint.
- Experience with Continuous Integration in Performance Testing.
- Good programming experience in any programming language.
- Experience with Hudson and Jenkins.
Job Classification
Industry: IT Services & ConsultingFunctional Area / Department: Engineering - Software & QA
Role Category: Quality Assurance and Testing
Role: Performance Testing Engineer
Employement Type: Full time
Contact Details:
Company: Leading ClientLocation(s): Kolkata
Keyskills: Performance Testing Jenkins Hudson Stress Testing Webservices Quality Assurance JMeter Test Strategy SQL
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