Purpose of the role:
The role of the Test Analyst (performance) is to establish performance requirements and produce high quality Load, Stress, Soak performance scripts, plans and associated documents.
Performance engineering skills are required and the candidate should be able to ensure the design, build, execute and monitor and analyse performance tests.
Should provide accurate reporting on performance results as well as reporting and escalating risks and issues appropriately.
Key Responsibilities:
Understand performance requirements, architectural dependencies at early stages
Create high quality stress, load and performance cases and associated documents.
Design, build, execute and monitor performance tests.
Creating and maintaining the performance test CI/CD pipeline
Stakeholder reporting
Escalate risks and issues appropriately to the leads
Able to identify, procure and manage environments and data required for testing.
Define metrics, practices, processes, reports and tools to ensure delivery is managed
Define and lead the Performance tuning/engineering parameters to meet the business expectations
Essential Skills / Experience
Experience in Performance testing and engineering, including experience of exposure to analysing application performance
Trouble shoot performance issues and suggest potential tuning parameters to product dev teams
Defining test suit which includes benchmarking, load, soak and Resilience test.
Ability to define chaos and execute chaos test. Hands-on on JMeter etc.
Hands-on on log monitoring tool like Elk. Experience working on various monitoring, profiling and tuning tools e.g. New Relic, CA Wily, OEM
Hands on experience in analysing Heap and Thread Dump.
Able to accurately analyse performance results and present results and analysis in both technical and business language
Good working knowledge on Cloud platform like AWS.
Hands on experience in Jenkins and Github.
Good knowledge of WebSphere and its performance counters
Good Knowledge in J2EE technology
Strong knowledge and working experience of Fund management.
Knowledge of Agile software development life-cycle methodologies
Experience of working with multi-cultural and geographically disparate teams
Familiarity with the Mutual Funds and Investment Management industry
Ability to understand functional specifications from the customer perspective and design appropriate acceptance tests
Proven experience of driving automation for functional and non-functional testing.
Ability to create and implement Performance automation frameworks in order to enable agile delivery.
Managing end-to-end performance engagements in “vendor” driven projects/engagements along with providing overall strategy, engagement, governance etc.
Understanding of multi-tiered architecture and good exposure to test home grown applications along with third party products in on premise applications, SaaS and cloud based implementation
Ability to communicate clearly and effectively with different levels of stakeholders in application delivery, QA and business groups
Ability to transform organisation / testing teams from Manual to Automated / Semi automated mode
Thorough understanding of test principles such as unit, smoke, functional (black box/white box), user acceptance and usability testing
Good knowledge of prevailing trends in testing domain for agile deliveries
Experience of establishing agile practices in QA teams and reduce testing time for accelerated product verification
Ability to analyse defects, spot trends and suggest corrective actions for early detection
Experience of working in tight deadlines in a matured, risk-based and ‘time-boxed’ testing environment
Be able to demonstrate consistent and good judgement of assessing severity of issues
Experience in stress, load and performance testing of global and regional applications with ability to define and document performance testing requirements and scenarios.
Desirable Skills
ISEB/ISTQB certification or equivalent
Exposure to testing mobile applications / apps
Exposure to a varied environments and products like:
J2EE technologies and the WebSphere family of products
Web Services, SOAP, XML messaging etc.
Personal Characteristics
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
Proven experience of liaison with stakeholders in international locations
Excellent documentation skills
Initiative in keeping abreast of changing industry practices, testing framework and methodologies, test tools
Self-motivation is essential, should demonstrate commitment to high quality design and development and passion for testing
Ability to develop & maintain working relationships with a number of stakeholders and senior professionals
Flexibility and an open attitude towards change
Problem solving skills with the ability to think laterally, and to think with a medium to long term perspective
Ability to learn and quickly get familiar with a complex business and systems environment
Willingness to travel overseas at a short-notice
Willingness to work in different time-zones as required
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