Performance Engineer

Performance Engineer

Apexon/Infostretch is looking for a Non-Functional Test Lead having 5+ years of experience in Performance Testing.

Responsibilities:

• Ensure the quality throughout the entire software development lifecycle, developing Non-Functional Test Plans to support the following Non-Functional test activities:
• Baseline Performance Tests
• Volume and Performance Testing (Load Testing, Stress Testing, Capacity Planning & Soak Testing)
• Reliability and Availability Testing of a release (Failover, backup, and recovery & Disaster Recovery)
• Application Security Testing
• Writing NFT including performance and security tests from scratch
• Use JMeter and other tools to performance test Non-functional behaviors
• Working effectively with cross-site located teams and 3rd party suppliers
• Experience of Test tools such as Load runner, SOAPUI, Jmeter
• Acquire Dev Ops knowledge to support continuous delivery

Must Have

Skills:

• BS degree in Computer Science or related technical field
• 5+ years of proven experience as a Performance
• Good knowledge of load generation test tools, particularly of JMeter and Load runner with experience up to using Java API
• Co-ordinate Non-Functional test activities including across multiple internal and external teams
• Sound understanding of all technical aspects of testing.
• Driven to get the job done, with a willingness to work out of hours at short notice. Ability to work around setbacks and blocks to achieve the solution
• Excellent planning and organisational skills.
• Flexibility to take on new projects, ways of working.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to find solutions to issues, work around conflicting priorities (different test phases/projects all with different priorities) with a view to commercial reality.
• Knowledge of and experience in reliability and availability test planning and execution.
• Experience of Oracle and SQL Scripting
• Good working knowledge of Web Logic/Web Sphere or any enterprise level application servers
• Good working knowledge of networking between multi-sites
• Experience of testing high volume transaction processing systems.
• Good working knowledge of Enterprise Systems Management products.
• Good experience in Dev Ops and Agile methodologies
• Experience of planning and executing Non-Functional tests
• Experience in defining testable Non-Functional Test Scripts
• Experience in understanding different application architectures to find potential performance bottlenecks or security vulnerabilities
• Ability to recommend design changes to improve performance of the application
• Experience of Continuous Integration/ Continuous Deployment
• Assess, select, and adopt key NFT tools and frameworks to drive automation at all levels
• Automate NFT (Non-Functional Testing) tests through selection of pragmatic technologies and frameworks
• Working within Agile and Waterfall software development environments across-site located teams and 3rd party suppliers
• Experience in complex distributed enterprise applications using JDK (Java Development Kit) 8 or later.
• Experience using various test frameworks such as Junit, Mockito, Cucumber etc
• Experience in the use of JMeter
• Experience using various messages serialisation formats such as JSON (JavaScript Object Notation), XML.
• Building relationships with stakeholders at all levels within the organisation and be able to technically support a collaborative interaction within the development teams.
• Dev Ops experience and demonstrable experience working with Jenkins, Team City or similar.