Senior QA Engineer (Performance Testing)

The Senior QA Engineer is responsible for driving, creating and executing performance testing strategies for Virtustream applications. This position requires an individual with a Quality Assurance background in performance testing, analytical abilities, and multitasking skills to work in a collaborative environment towards resolving complex problems.  Candidates should be able to function effectively in a self-directed and creative manner with minimal supervision. Excellent communication skills, an energetic and positive attitude, strong team skills, and an ability to learn fast are a must.  Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, writing performance test plans, designing tests, documenting test cases, configuring a test environment, executing tests, and interpreting test results.

Responsibilities and Essential Duties:

• Plan approach and test strategy for performance testing by identifying workflows and system characteristics to be performance tested and ensure they are reflected in the test scope.
• Plan and manage deliverables for: performance diagnostics, capacity planning, performance architecture design, performance tuning, and performance monitoring.
• Conduct system load and stress testing, work with stakeholders determining the volume to be used during the performance test.
• Work closely with development on the design and implementation of enhancements based on the tuning recommendations.
• Analyze the CPU Utilization, Memory usage, thread usage, Garbage collection, and DB connection to verify the performance of the Application.
• Should be capable to utilize performance/monitoring tools, analyzing results, resolving performance related issues to include optimization and tuning recommendations.
• Distill volumes of data, analyzes performance results, diagnoses performance problems, suggest improvements, and clearly characterize system performance to stakeholders.
• Conduct Architectural & Technical reviews during software development life cycle and provide suggestions for performance improvements.
• Responsible for capacity estimation/planning, modeling, monitoring, analyzing and recommending solutions to performance problems with enterprise business applications.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or other related degree or equivalent work experience.
• 3+ years of performance testing experience.
• Good practical and theoretical knowledge in Performance Engineering, understanding Performance Testing methods, best practices, trends.
• Experience using and setting up performance testing tools such as Neoload, JMeter, LoadRunner, WebLoad, Httperf, etc.
• Scripting experience using one or more of the following: Python, C#, JS, Shell scripting.
• Experience using web technologies (HTTP, HTML, JavaScript), Web Services.
• Experience working in a Linux environment.
• Experience in Cloud Computing and Cloud Management, experience with virtual testing environments such as VMware (vSphere, vCenter) would be a great advantage.
• Ability to identify system bottlenecks, architectural risks, and issues.
• Ability to analyze and interpret technical data
• Excellent problem solving and critical thinking skills.
• Must be able to write clear and concise technical documents.
• An ability to work in a fast, agile and nimble environment with frequent change.
• Excellent communication and organizational skills.
• Experience in tuning .NET applications would be a plus.
• Knowledge of PostgreSQL would be a plus.