Senior Performance Tester

• Create performance test scripts and maintain existing ones
• Run performance tests, analyze results and create reports to summarize findings and recommendations
• Investigate performance issues and find their root causes
• Work with developers, architects, technical support teams and functional testers to understand applications in detail and discover ways to optimize performance
• Communicate with project managers, product owners and business analysts to accurately report performance test status
• Work with business stakeholders to define non-functional requirements, advising them when necessary
• Plan and estimate effort required for performance testing
• Review the performance testing process and work with the existing team members to suggest and implement improvements
• Look for ways to involve performance testing earlier in the software lifecycle, in both Agile and waterfall-based projects
• Mentoring junior performance testers from the team
• At least 5 years of experience working in performance testing
• Good knowledge of at least one performance test tool - either commercial (e.g. HP Performance Center/LoadRunner, Oracle Application Test Suite) or open source (e.g. JMeter, Gatling)
• Good knowledge of at least one programming language e.g. C/C++, Java, Python, etc
• Familiar with different operating systems (Windows/Linux) usage and configuration
• Awareness of different middleware technologies e.g. SpringBoot
• Experience of testing both web applications and other types of system (e.g. API/Message/UI based Apps)
• Familiar with performance monitoring tools (OS level - Linux/Windows, or applications - e.g. New Relic, AppDynamics)
• Able to write SQL queries to interrogate DBs
• Experience with CI tools Jenkins/Bamboo/Azure Devops
• Ability to understand/analyze an application’s architecture to assess performance risks
• Good English communication (spoken/written) and presentation skills
• Flexible and able to adapt to changing priorities and working practices
• Team oriented attitude and the ability to work well with others in order to achieve a common goal

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