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Company Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
The Richmond Fed is the proud home of the Federal Reserve's National IT organization-a nationwide team delivering technology solutions and support across the Federal Reserve System. Many National IT employees are located in Richmond, while others are based across the U.S. at other Federal locations.When you join our team, you'll become part of a culture that welcomes differences, cares about our communities, and empowers each other to lead from where we are to make things better. Bring your passion and we'll provide challenging and purposeful careers in a variety of fields, opportunities to grow and a wide range of benefits and perks that support your health and wealth. It's all part of what makes #MyRichmondFed a great place to work!About the Opportunity Provides technical oversight to Performance Test and Test Tools engagements. Ensures quality standards associated with the test team's deliverables and overall technical direction. Defines the test engagement's scope in conjunction with the Project Team. Supports design of test scripts, test scenarios executions, and performance test result analysis. Works with software engineers, business analysts, database administrators, network engineers, and project support teams to analyze, develop, maintain and execute performance testing engagements.What You Will Do:Responsibilities:- Design and create performance tests that fully satisfy the requirement(s) put forth by the Project Team.
- Review and debug/remediate issues with scripts
- Review and debug/remediate issues with connectivity (WebSeal, Certificates, Proxies, etc)
- Review and debug/remediate issues with Performance Center or Silk Performer components
- Ability to determine best Silk Performer/Performance Center messaging protocol(s) to employ based on the application under test.
- Tracks and clearly communicates task progress, status, and key performance metrics.
- Raises defects to the attention of the Project Team and seeks issue resolution
- Communicate effectively across multiple teams/external vendors (Operations, Project Teams, Quality Service, etc.), as well as different personnel (Developers, Scrum Masters, Project Managers, etc.) when required.
- Perform detailed system resource utilization metric analysis for issues uncovered during test execution; recommends possible remediation paths
- Conduct troubleshooting/performance test execution(s) in support of remediation efforts as required.
- Analyze data and application changes and document their impact on the performance testing task (test cases, scripting, scenario execution, etc.).
- Ensures the test execution results fulfill the defined test objectives. Schedules/recommends test re-execution if necessary.
- Ensure the appropriate testing and monitoring tools/technologies are employed accordingly with the test objectives/project team requirements.
- Maintain technical expertise via self-education in areas governing computer sciences, performance/load testing dictums, and Quality Assurance.
- Ability to mentor junior testers in both Performance Testing and Quality Assurance principles
- Provide feedback to Leadership in support of continual team improvement
- Interface directly with the Application Performance Engineers
- Calculate the project's test data needs; insure data diversity for the engagement
- Active participant in the project meetings; ability to provide concise and clear technical communications regarding Performance Testing
- Escalate issues/impediments in a timely manner to team leadership
- Ability to lead multiple Performance Test engagements simultaneously
- Solid understanding of SDLC, versed in several delivery models (waterfall, agile, etc)
- Job-related experience equal to 2 - 6 years
- Solid understanding of HP's Performance Center (LoadRunner)
- Excellent technical understanding of Silk Performer
- Excellent understanding of HP's ALM (Quality Center)
- Solid understanding of BMC's Patrol and Dynatrace
- Great medical benefits
- Pension and 401(k) with employer match
- Paid time off
- Tuition reimbursement
- Employee resource networks
- Paid volunteer leave
- Flexible work options
- Onsite amenities that make working here fun
- A requirement of this position is that the employee must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19; individuals who are unable to be vaccinated due to a medical condition or sincerely held religious belief may request an accommodation from the Bank.
- Candidates should review the Bank's Employee Code of Conduct to ensure compliance with conflict of interest rules and personal investment restrictions.
- Sponsorship is not available for this role. Selected candidate is subject to special background check procedures.
- The selected candidate will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information. Eligibility for this specific position requires U.S. Citizenship or three or more years of Permanent Resident (Green Card) status.
- Salary offered will be based on the job responsibilities and the individual's knowledge, skills, and experience as defined in the job qualifications/experience.