Performance Test Manager

Role & responsibilities

• Manage and recruit to a cross functional Agile Team, including Front-end and Back-end Developers, QA Engineers and a Scrum Master, to deliver valuable functionality to our clients.
• Define and drive an overall unifying vision for the team and its projects, processes, workflows, and related areas through motivation, consensus building and leading change.
• Implement and drive adaptations to team and strategic organizational processes, workflows, and related areas.
• Leverage your technical and domain knowledge to partner with Product representatives and your team in defining project deliverables, presenting innovative solutions and, ultimately, to successfully plan, manage and drive the timely delivery of corporate initiatives.
• Work with Product and technical stakeholders, as well as Project Management, to define project requirements and deliverables, and, ultimately, plan and manage the timely delivery of high quality projects.
• Review and understand core strengths and weaknesses across team members, and proactively engage, mentor, and define goals in order to capitalize upon strengths or mitigate gaps.
• Effectively plan, communicate and conduct presentations (project milestones, risk mitigation, road maps, resource needs, technical information, etc.) for senior management and stakeholders, while conveying and driving actionable items to your team.
• Work closely, partner, and collaborate with our principal architect to provide exceptional solutions that adhere to, or create, standards across teams.
• Manage budget and resources for your team.
• Effectively communicate and resolve personnel issues on your team.
• Contribute to design reviews, code reviews and hands-on work in your respective domain.
• Manage day to day administrative tasks such as time off requests, sick days, etc.
• Other duties as assigned.

Preferred candidate profile

• Recent prior experience as a Manager and/or Technical Lead (Engineer, QA, etc.) in software development of large-scale web applications, with at least 9 years of experience in your respective domain.
• Exceptional communication and people skills, with a passion for product excellence, talent development and mentoring.
• Knowledge of Build, Deployment, and Continuous Integration concepts and best practices, including full SDLC.
• Strong experience in Agile methodology, processes, and best practices.
• Strong experience on any one performance tool experience like Jmeter, Load runner, and Gatling.
• Strong experience on any one APM tool like

  NewRelic, Grafana, AppDynamic, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, Solarwinds DPA

  etc
• Experience in TDD concepts, methodologies, and best practices (i.e., mocks, spies, unit tests, code coverage, etc.). BDD experience is a plus.
• Experience with technical design and hands-on work within a modern OOP-based language (C#, Java, Python, etc.), selenium, any one cloud experience, and related stack.
• Experience in modern Database platforms, including such items as data modeling, stored procedures, schema definitions, performance and scaling considerations.
• Recent experience working with, troubleshooting and tuning across all layers of a modern SaaS, N-Tier, web-based application.
• Understanding of QA standards and best practices, including automation, regression, and smoke testing, white/black-box testing, and related QA processes.
• Must have team handling or leading experience.
• Good to have people manager skills.