Senior Performance Test Engineer

Senior Performance Test Engineer is a part of a high-performance feature driven Performance test team responsible for performance testing of complex e-commerce solutions. You must have a proven track record of solving tough business and technical problems while taking responsibility for meeting business objectives with a strong sense of product ownership. This job requires strong technical, collaboration and communication skills to provide guidance and expertise throughout the entire software development lifecycle, ensuring the success of you and your team’s efforts. You should have strong communication and mentoring skills, expertise with software development lifecycle methodologies, extensive experience with building testing frameworks, and use of standard development and testing tools. 

Responsibilities: 

• Analyze and elicit non-functional requirements (incl. performance-related) and other requirements-related documents/files across needed/expected performance testing activities; 
• Develop an overall performance testing approach, create performance test plans and test strategies; 
• Define hardware resources for performance testing project; 
• Define operational profile, load distribution and load level for performance tests;
• Create performance testing scenarios according to operational profile, planned load distribution and planned load level using performance testing tool (JMeter);
• Code review test scenarios in the performance testing tool;
• Execute planned performance tests (all planned types) defined within the project;
• Create performance-related bug reports in the bug tracking system and perform the fixed bugs' verification;
• Actively participate in daily project team meetings and brainstorming activities related to the project issues;
• Provide updates to effort estimates and status of assigned tasks;
• Collaborate with other teams across the engineering department;
• Provide inputs for SOW effort estimation (incl. HLE projects, LLE estimates, tasks/CR level estimates);
• Participate in identifying and managing performance testing-related risks on assigned projects;
• Work with Lead and project leads in defining technical issues and performance bottlenecks;
• Conduct on-boarding and coaching of new Performance Test Engineers (if needed);
• Conduct a technical interview of Performance Test Engineer candidates;
• Define performance testing solution architecture for current and future projects;
• Communication with the client, platform provider (SFCC), 3rd parties representatives where needed. 
  
  Required skills/qualifications
• 4+ years of performance testing experience;
• Strong theoretical knowledge base in performance testing;
• Acknowledgement with analytical tools (like Google Analytics) and basic performance entry data;
• Extensive experience with performance requirements elicitation and analysis; 
• Solid experience with the performance test scripting in Jmeter; 
• Basic knowledge of programming (JS, groovy, java, python etc.)
• Experience with load test types execution (smoke, stress, spike, capacity etc.);
• Server monitoring tools (Zabbix, Grafana, Newrelic, Dynatrace etc.) and server metrics (resource utilization);
• Experience with CI and Git;
• Experience with performance testing estimation (up to project level)
• Experience with tools: 
  • Defect management tool
  • Jmeter o Jenkins or any other CI tool
  • Amazon AWS or other on-demand cloud computing service
• Experience with documentation:
  • Performance Test Plan
  • Bug Reports creation
  • Performance Test Report
  • Practical experience with performance test management activities (RQs analysis, test scenarios design and execution, test plan and strategy updates, risk management, change management, coordination, control, analysis and reporting, metrics, lessons learned);
• Ability to drive technical interview as a primary interviewer
• Experience with tools investigation and implementation
• Proficient level in communications with 3rd party, client, platform representatives
• Upper-Intermediate English writing and speaking skills.