Senior Performance Test Architect

Technical Experience:

• Experience and Knowledge of performance testing and analytical tools
• Experience and knowledge with Cloud Infrastructure – particularly Azure
• Experience on product testing in Agile environment; should know the various stages of product release
• Experience in SQL Server
• Experience on various test techniques and appropriate applicability/implementation
• Proficient in C# and OOPs and Advance programing skills
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills and ability to translate business and technical requirements into workable Performance testing approach
• Good understanding of architecture with focus on performance: caching strategies, synchronous vs asynchronous approaches, throughput vs latency
• Strong understanding of risk management techniques and ability to develop appropriate contingency plans
• Strong time management skills and excellent organizational skills with ability to juggle multiple demands without missing deadlines
• Experience on various monitoring tools, corelating and analyzing test results to logical conclusions
• Contribution to design and implementation of framework(s)
• Good communication skills and attitude

Experience

• 8-15 years of total experience in Performance testing

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Identify/validate test objectives and define test approach for its implementation to align tests by interpreting business requirements.
• Workload modelling by analyzing various types of production logs to drive minimum 80% application coverage
• Research, recommend and implement a technical testing strategy that significantly reduces the testing time while providing a clear assessment of the risk to the enterprise
• Technical troubleshooting and guidance to peers and juniors.
• Mentor and guide team for new technologies, troubleshooting and analysis
• Able to articulate, flag and communicate risk to the business.
• Review test results and establish hypothesis to draw conclusions by providing in-depth result interpretation.
• Stakeholder collaboration and communication.
• Forecast application changes that affect scalability and capacity of production systems and suggest remediation steps.
• Create scalability & capacity models for applications that will or cannot be performance tested
• Should drive in designing, optimizing and maintaining Testing framework that improves in performance testing strategies
• Review proposed changes to production, both application and systems, to help determine level of risk and whether performance specific validation should be done prior to implementation
• Execute the tests in multiple environments as per the plan if required
• Support lead in achieving testing deliverables in technical areas of analysis, review and technical assistance
• Log and track defects, support triage