Technical QA Engineer

Title: Technical QA Engineer , Performance (1725)

Location: New York United States

Job Description:

TITLE: Technical QA Engineer, Performance

LOCATION: New York, NY (option to work remotely from any location in the U.S.)

DUTIES: Lead/participate in the constant improvement of our testing practices, i.e. exploratory testing, test charters, session-based test management. Identify areas of performance risk for software and architecture changes in web-based enterprise application. Design and run test cases that efficiently mitigate that risk. Participate in design meetings with Business Analysts, UX designers, Support and Developers and share perspectives on ensuring testability. Create and define new scripts or ad-hoc tools and processes to properly test and analyze performance as needed. Develop and debug code to identify and fix performance issues. Produce and maintain product coverage reports for test coverage. Perform capacity planning and projection planning for large customers, focusing on I/O and RAM capacity analysis. Design and build efficient processes and automation to run tests for every nightly build. Analyze test results, identify performance issues, and dig deeper to understand and document the root cause for performance bottlenecks and issues. Coach developers and other testers on good testing practices and techniques. EOE

REQTS: Must have a Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electronic Engineering, or a related field plus eight (8) years of progressively responsible experience analyzing, troubleshooting, and automating performance workloads on large-scale systems in the position offered, as a Software Engineer, or a related position. Must include five (5) years of experience with all of the following: Utilizing performance load testing tools including Neoload, LoadRunner, and JMeter to design, test, and analyze performance; Creating automated performance tests in Jenkins using Python and Groovy to run nightly on AWS and GCP cloud- hosted environments and sending results data to Kibana; Creating reports of nightly performance tests using data available in Kibana and displaying results using Grafana dashboard; Utilizing performance analysis tools including Datadog, SentryOne, and JProfiler to investigate, troubleshoot, and identify performance bottlenecks and issues; Testing, analyzing, and troubleshooting performance of enterprise-scale HTML/J2EE web-based application with a database backend, including Postgress, MSSQL, MySQL, and Oracle; Working in Agile/Scrum models.

SALARY: $195,700 – $210,000 per year
HOURS: 40 hours per week, Monday-Friday
*The position is eligible for employee referral reward.

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