Performance Test Engineer

HYBRID ROLE. CAN WORK FROM HOME 2-3 DAYS A WEEK The Performance Test Engineer is responsible for conducting system level performance and load testing. This position will also mimic customer environments and develop and support a test environment to ensure the quality of the client's software products.This is an exciting opportunity to work in a fast-paced team environment supporting one of the largest leaders in the financial telecommunications industry. We take an innovative approach to supporting our client, working side-by-side in an agile environment using emerging technologies.

• Lead a performance testing team consisting of on/offshore team members of Quality Engineering Organization
• Design and mentor those in creating best-in-class performance testing approaches and plans for enterprise-wide projects
• Assist project members with infrastructure and application performance monitoring and analysis.
• Evaluate overall system capacity during end-to-end load tests.
• Work tightly with software development, architecture and system engineering for performance testing and application analysis initiatives to define success criteria and evaluation methodologies.
• Work closely with the test management team to establish performance testing criteria.
• Provide quality, process and technical leadership within the Performance Management team.
• Provide insight into performance bottlenecks leveraging a variety of skills and tool sets on multiple platforms.
• Establish a strong presence as a change agent providing innovative, effective, and efficient Performance Management practices and solutions.
  Required:

• Must have experience with Mercury/HP Software automated performance testing tools (including test scripting, test execution, results analysis, tuning/troubleshooting and reporting);
• Knowledge of VOIP (Voice over IP) systems (testing or installation);
• Should possess an understanding of software development and implementation methodologies including waterfall and Agile.
• Strong understanding of the software development lifecycle (including estimation, business analysis, requirements gathering, test verification/validation, statistical analysis, business/technical writing, and managing multiple projects concurrently).
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong Experience in scripting (Perl, TCL, shell, etc.)
• Strong Experience in Load Runner (min. of 2 to 3 years). Test case writing and scenario designing.
• Must possess strong experience using and implementing best practice programs with respect to load generation, bottleneck analysis, usage of modeling tools and statistical analysis.
• Strong experience in enterprise and distributed application performance testing
• Experience in SQL queries and Linux environment.
• 7+ years’ experience in the performance engineering field.
• Bachelor’s degree or the equivalent in Computer Engineering, IT or related field

• Basic experience in using IBM RQM, RTC and Perl IDE.
• Experience in working with offshore teams.
• Experience with and knowledge of IP networking protocols