W2 only - Performance Tester with Failover Testing
New York Technology Partners - chicago, IL
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Job Title: Performance and Failover TesterLocation: Chicago, IL (Onsite - Hybrid - 3 days in a week)Position Type: Fulltime positionResponsibilities:SummaryThis role will be responsible for Performance and Failover testing which includes but not limited to segments of the planning, design, and execution of performance, failover tests and reports are produced. This role involves collaborating with development teams, identifying performance bottlenecks and raise risks. This role requires a thorough understanding of failover strategies, disaster recovery plans and high availability solutions. Primary Duties and Responsibilities• Analyze the business requirements, understand the expectation from end user, review with Business AnalystsSMEs and design test scenarios.• Works closely with development, QA, and operations teams to understand application architecture and performance requirements.• Design and develop performance test scripts and scenarios using appropriate tools and frameworks.• Monitor system behavior during performance, Load, Stress, and failover tests and ensure systems meet recovery time objectives.• Conduct failover tests by simulations of hardware, software, and network failures.• Identify performance bottlenecks, root causes, and potential solutions.• Analyze Results, compare against SLAs, Benchmarks and Provide tuning recommendations to improve End User Experience.• Document findings in Test management tool and provide actionable recommendations for improving performancefailover processes.• Work closely with development, QA and Operations teams to integrate performance and failover testing into the overall testing Approach documentation.• Collaborate with Enterprise Quality Process team and ensure standards are followed during failover testing and audit checks are passed.• Find opportunity to automate, improve existing process, & contribute towards innovation by doing POCs on latest technologies.Qualifications• Knowledge of a development lifecycle under Waterfall andor Agile methodologies.• Knowledge of Lifecyle development, change control management, test planning management.• Design and development skills in one of the following. technologies and tools: JMeter, LoadRunner.• Analytical skills with potential to learn and display methods of testing against highly sophisticated systems, progressively diagnose system defects, and clearly communicate project constituents, key findings, and learnings.• Good communication skills including written and oral communication.• Highly motivated self-starter with creative problem-solving skills.• Ability to learn multitasking and meet deadlines in a fast-paced Agile environment.• Experience with team collaboration and development.Technical Skills• Experience in Performance and Failover testing on cloud & on-prem for n-tiered environments.• Good understanding of application architecture, Non-Functional Requirements & identifying production workloads.• Some experience in using tools such as JMeter, Selenium, SpiraTest, and LoadRunner• Good understanding of load, soak, scalability, and other types of performance tests.• Understanding of AWS or Azure platform to run performance and failover tests.• Exposure in performance engineering for J2EE .NET LAMP, etc.• Familiar with monitoring queues with tools like Any Point, MQ explorer etc.• Experience in running automated performance tests via CICD pipelines (on platforms like Cloud bees, GitHub etc.)• Experience with application monitoringObservability, building dashboards, identifying & establishing SLA's, logging & tracing.• Understanding of Capacity planning and Performance tuning.• Familiar with container technologies such as Docker or Kubernetes.• Understanding in observability Site Reliability engineering.• Working knowledge of Atlassian products - Jira Software, ConfluenceEducation andor Experience• Bachelor'smaster's degree in computer science, Engineering, and any related discipline.• 2-3 years in the areas of PerformanceFailover Testing Architecture DevOps.• knowledge of high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) concepts.• Experience in collaborating with Development, Site Reliability Engineering, Cloud Engineering, Security in evaluating performance & scalability issues.• Understand the architecture of high volume transactional SaaS Systems.• Hands-on experience building test automation and failover test suites.
Created: 2024-10-13