Senior/Lead Performance Tester

Overview

Job Role: Senior/Lead Performance Tester

Total Experience: 8+ Years

Relevant Experience: 5+ Years

Team/Client Lead: Recent Years in a Lead/Client Role

Job Location: Kolkata, Indore, Shillong

Preference to candidates who are from these locations or willing to relocate

Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering

Work Mode: Hybrid (03 Days in Office & 02 WFH/Remote)

Work Week: Mon-Fri (9:30 till 6:30 IST)

Salary: As per Industry Standards or Candidate Interview performance

Role & Responsibilities

• Define Performance Testing Objectives and Scope - Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business goals, user expectations, and technical requirements.
• Define the objectives and scope of performance testing, including the types of tests, metrics to measure, and load scenarios.
• Develop comprehensive test plans and strategies that cover all aspects of performance testing, such as environment setup, data preparation, test execution, monitoring, analysis, and reporting
• Create realistic and reliable test scripts and scenarios that emulate real-world user behavior and workload. Use appropriate tools and techniques to develop and execute these scripts
• Ensure the test environment mimics the production environment as closely as possible. Manage hardware, software, network, and security resources to support testing activities
• Monitor System Performance - Collect and analyze various performance metrics such as response time, throughput, error rates, and resource utilization during tests
• Identify system strengths and weaknesses, bottlenecks, and root causes of performance issues. Provide actionable insights and recommendations for improvement
• Create detailed reports that summarize findings and recommendations. Include relevant metrics, graphs, charts, and logs to support conclusions.
• Regularly update stakeholders, including developers, QA teams, and project managers, on test progress, issues, and results.
• Conduct meetings to discuss findings and secure approvals
• Guide and support junior testers, ensuring they understand their roles and responsibilities. Provide training and share best practices
• Work closely with development, QA, and operations teams to ensure performance testing is integrated into the development lifecycle
• Keep abreast of the latest performance testing tools, techniques, and best practices. Implement improvements to enhance testing efficiency and effectiveness
• Review and Update Testing Artifacts. Ensure all testing artifacts, such as test plans, scripts, and reports, are accurate, complete, and up-to-date

Must Have:

• Proficient experience in creating load test plans, executing and monitoring tests, analyzing results, and identifying application optimization opportunities.
• Solid understanding of performance concepts and tuning, including Garbage Collection, CPU cycles, memory utilization, and context switching.
• Expertise in Web/Mobile Application and Web Services (SOAP and REST APIs) scripting and performance engineering.
• Expertise in performance testing tools like JMeter for benchmark, load, stress, and other non-functional tests.
• Strong experience in Test Planning, Test Estimation, Test Strategy, and Workload Design.
• Experience coordinating testing processes across teams such as DBA, Dev, or System Admins.
• Ability to troubleshoot and conduct root cause analysis (RCA) for production issues.
• Experience with performance engineering tools such as LoadRunner and JMeter, as well as performance monitoring tools like Dynatrace and Splunk.
• Good Oracle DB knowledge with an understanding of SQL execution plans, AWR, and SQLT reports.

Good to Have:

• Experience with Kubernetes/Docker/OpenShift application platforms and container-based applications.
• Knowledge of enterprise integration technologies like Web Services, MQ, DB.
• Familiarity with Visio, Gantt chart, and SharePoint.
• Experience with Continuous Integration in Performance Testing.
• Good programming experience in any programming language.
• Experience with Hudson and Jenkins.

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Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: ₹1,500,000.00 - ₹3,500,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Health insurance
• Internet reimbursement
• Leave encashment
• Life insurance
• Paid sick time
• Provident Fund
• Work from home

Schedule:

• Day shift
• Fixed shift
• Monday to Friday
• Morning shift

Supplemental Pay:

• Overtime pay
• Performance bonus
• Yearly bonus

Experience:

• Garbage Collector,CPU cycle, memory, context switching: 8 years (Required)
• troubleshoot, conduct RCA for Production issues: 8 years (Required)
• LoadRunner JMeter Dynatrace and Splunk: 8 years (Required)
• Web/Mobile Apps and Web Services (SOAP and REST API: 8 years (Required)
• Jmeter Execute Benchmark, load, stress,: 8 years (Required)
• Test Planning, Estimation, Strategy, Workload Design.: 8 years (Required)
• End-to-End performance test process: 8 years (Required)
• troubleshoot, conduct RCA for Production: 8 years (Required)
• SQL executions plan, AWR and SQLT Reports: 8 years (Preferred)
• creating load test plan, executing, and monitoring tests: 8 years (Required)

License/Certification:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science & Engineer (Required)

Location:

• Kolkata, West Bengal (Required)

Work Location: In person