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