Performance Test Engineer

SUMMARY:
Our client is looking for a Performance Test Engineer, they will responsible for the overall quality and testing architecture of our products that our department produces. They use a range of innovative front-end and back-end tools & technology to drive robust, well-engineered practices through to delivery, giving the business that sought-after confidence. Consisting of Test Architects, Performance Test Engineers and QA Engineers, they have a deeply embedded culture of collaboration, sharing our experiences and skills throughout.

POSITION INFO:

Purpose of the Role:
The Performance Test Engineer (PTE) would take on some of the responsibilities of the current Performance Test Team, ensuring that performance testing is carried out across our many services/products.
You, as the PTE will be tasked with going into the development teams, working closely with Developers and QAs to performance test stories before they are released to production.
The PTE will be tasked with running end-to-end performance test projects with industry standard tools and present the results back to agile teams to determine how these stories impact the performance of our products.
You will also be tasked with contributing to the teams effort to implementing the current performance test strategy, driving innovation and working with the most up-to-date technologies to streamline current processes.


Duties include, but not limited to:

• Running end-to-end performance test projects for different agile teams within the business
• Discussing and reviewing performance test projects and progress with Senior PTEs at dedicated quality gates
• Working with and coaching Junior PTEs to help them develop their knowledge across performance testing and project management
• Implementing project management techniques to effectively deliver performance test projects
• Working with project stakeholders and managing their expectations and requirements
• Promoting performance testing practices within the business to different development teams
• Presenting performance test results to development teams and providing recommendations to the teams to improve performance test processes and the application under test
• Work with Senior PTEs to refine and improve documentation output (e.g. test plans, requirements, reports, presentations and logs)
• Implementing and maintaining the quality and standards of the test assets
• Work on strategy tasks driven by the Senior PTEs to drive and streamline delivery processes
• Analyse current standards of performance test artefacts and drive improvements

• Previous experience working in a dedicated performance test team
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Previous experience using industry-wide performance testing tools (e.g. Microfocus LoadRunner, Microsoft Visual Studio Load Testing Tools or JMeter)
• Experience of running performance test projects from requirements gathering to test reporting
• Good stakeholder management skills in order to produce reports, talk through and present to non-technical audiences
• Ability to coordinate test runs which require multi-department co-operation
• Ability to manage stress effectively

• Experience in Continuous Integration/Delivery
• Experience in testing applications hosted in the cloud, particularly Microsoft Azure
• Experience working with JSON
• Experience using Jira
• Experience working in Kanban environments
• Experience working with build & deployment tools
• Experience with Elasticsearch
• Experience in coaching and mentoring junior team members

• Attention to detail
• Effectiveness & Delivery
• Resilience
• Teamwork
• Organisation & Planning
• Adaptability / Flexibility
• Strategic Vision
• Communication

NB! This job is now closed. You can apply for other jobs by uploading your CV.