Performance Tester

Technical Skills

Working knowledge, spanning many of the following areas:

• Implement performance test framework using JMeter.
• Own and manage performance test environment.
• Understand non-functional requirements (Stress, Spike, Capacity, Load and Scalability), develop performance test scripts and follow test plan schedule and scope.
• Run performance tests on Application under Test. Analyze Test results, report defects for performance issue of application under test.
• Apply critical thinking and analytical skills to troubleshoot issues.
• Provide feedback on process improvement when there's an opportunity and strive to apply testing best practices in performance tests.
• Experience working on performance testing and engineering of large-scale eCommerce or web applications or APIs.
• Experience in setup and management of Test and Mock environment on Unix platform.
• Good understanding of troubleshooting performance issues encountered during performance testing.
• Works with different project stakeholders to define and document performance SLAs, requirements and expectations around critical performance factors such as response time, throughput, transaction/seconds, concurrent users, CPU utilization, memory, disk, network, JVM metrics utilization, thread counts, connection pooling etc.
• Provides technical mentorship and cultural/competency-based guidance to teams
• Provides larger business/product context. Mentors on specific tech stacks/technologies

Key Responsibilities:

• Working with multiple stake holders and business units in orchestrating performance tests and identifying bottlenecks.
• JVM Internals and Tuning.
• Working on performance testing and engineering of large scale eCommerce or web applications