Senior Quality Engineer - Performance

The Challenge 

• This is a hands-on role which builds performance scripts for long term product scalability and stability. In this role, the resource is closely working with the product team to understand the functionality being developed and writes robust automation and performance scripts to meet the acceptance criteria.  
• As the resource matures in understanding the breadth and depth of product functionality, the resource should be able to bring in critical thinking to ask the “what if” questions to strengthen the tests. 
• The role evaluates continuous improvement by improving the effectiveness of the automated tests 
• This role understands customer use cases and usage models in production to begin incorporating the right tests in the release pipeline 
• This role begins to understand the dependency models and makes informed decisions to test intelligently 
• This role begins active engagement in a devops mindset toward rapid deployments and anchors the product scrum team to meet quality deliverables 

Your Mission 

• Participate in daily scrums, sprint retrospectives, and sprint demos 
• Understand and translate business and technical requirements into various types of performance tests 
• Continuously experiment with product teams to help strengthen the product SLAs 
• Work with product management, and other functional teams to own and deliver performance/load test plans 
• Execute and maintain the automation test suite 
• Evaluate build quality by examining the test results from build acceptance tests in continuously deployed environments, multiple times a day 
• Define test data and reports for both functional and non-functional requirements 
• Raise defects found during the evaluation and work with the development teams to get them resolved 
• Work with different teams to understand new components being delivered in the pipeline and develop innovative performance tests 
• Participate in various POCs in order to keep the automation framework and technology relevant and current to the product offerings 
• Add, maintain and update scripts in existing automation suite, helping with running the suite across various checkpoints in the release cycle 
• Participate in production deployments that require simulated load conditions, record findings and share insightful feedback with product teams 
• Adhere to best practices and coding standards 
• Mentor less experienced resources on the team 
• Provide support for reports and visuals in the release pipeline 
• Stay current on modern software development best practices, emerging technologies, and design patterns and contribute to thought leadership efforts 
• Work to analyze the performance of the environments and troubleshoot to identify problem areas 
• Develop robust tests to support sizing requirements. Work closely with development and operations teams to experiment and fine tune the environment sizing 
• Conduct system performance testing to ensure system reliability, capacity and scalability 
• Generate test summary reports for management review 
• Use strong communication and natural curiosity to provide trusted and highly valuable feedback 

You Are

• Is a quick self-guided, independent learner. Does not depend on the mentor/buddy/manager for repeated sessions. Does enough homework before asking necessary questions. 
• Is productive within a month of joining the company. The team is aware of this individual and begins to include them for more work. Unearths good defects and can ask the right questions 
• Effective collaborator. Speaks clearly and succinctly in standups and clearly indicates the status of tasks assigned 
• Great team player, helps find defects, resolve with right test cases and data and can influence the right level of automation 
• High energy and is very efficient, effective and reliable 
• The tests written and conducted by the resource is comprehensive and does not lead to too many escaped defects to production 
• Continuous improvement areas focusing on the right levels of automation 
• Exhibits the right attitude, devops mindset and shift-left principles 
• Creative simulation of problems in production and right test data in internal test systems 
• Understands the errors in logs and can troubleshoot product issues 
• Excellent oral and written communication. Ability to work as part of a team, demonstrate initiative, solve problems independently and supervise others  
• Proficient communications skills and be comfortable leading meetings as needed  
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills and root causes analysis  
• Passion for high quality work and attention to detail
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical or business field 
• 4+ years of relevant experience working as a developer, automation engineer, SDET or performance engineer 
• 3+ years of experience working in automated test and continuously deployed environments 
• 3+ years of experience in any of the defect tracking tools like JIRA and test tracking tools like Qtest , ALM, Qmetry 
• 2+ years of experience coding in Java and must have strong practical knowledge of OOPs and Core Java principles. 
• 2+ years of experience contributing to Test-Driven Development (TDD) with JUnit, Mockito, Podam, TestNG 
• 2+ years of understanding APIs and automation using tools like Postman, SOAP, or REST Assured 
• 2+ years of experience writing or maintaining performance scripts using JMeter or equivalent tool OR 2+ years of experience with Selenium for automating UI of the application 
• 2+ years of experience in identifying memory leakage, connection issues and ability to test the throttling within the application 
• 2+ years of experience troubleshooting information from logs, use of tools like Kibana, ability to add the necessary monitors and alerts 
• 2+ years of experience in executing scripts under load 
• 2+ years of experience with database testing (SQL/NoSQL) 
• 2+ years of experience working with teams across geos 
• 2+ years of experience with tools such as Bitbucket, Git, Stash, Confluence, JIRA 
• 2+ years of experience in Cloud application development experience (Azure, Google Cloud Platform, or Amazon Web Services) 
• Passion for high quality work and attention to detail 
• Superior communication and organizational skills 
• Familiarity with Agile principles 
• Continuous Integration/Deployment - DevOps mindset 
• Ability to work as part of a team, demonstrate initiative and solve problems independently