Senior / Lead Performance Tester - Load & Stress Testing

Job Description

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.