JOB TITLE: SR. PERFORMANCE TESTER

DURATION: 6 MONTHS

LOCAL CANDIDATES ONLY PLEASE, LOCAL TO WASHINGTON DC AREA, MARYLAND, NORTH CAROLINA, DELAWARE, WEST VIRGINIA, SOUTHERN NJ.

FINAL MANDATORY FACE TO FACE INTERVIEW WILL TAKE PLACE IN RESTON VA.

Our client is seeking a Performance Test Engineer with extensive knowledge in both Tricentis NeoLoad and LoadRunner, in support of implementing Tricentis NeoLoad into our customers environment.

Although primarily remote, our client does meet onsite 1-2x per month in their Reston VA office. This position also requires a final F2F interview in Reston VA as well.

The selected candidate will be responsible for creating, maintaining, modifying, and managing automated performance testing scripts. S/he must be able to communicate effectively in collaboration with the systems and development teams to troubleshoot performance and scalability issues. The individual will be part of the Performance Testing team.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Define and develop performance test plans and automated scripts using industry standard testing tools. Executes performance test, analyze and evaluate test results; generate performance metric reports and provide recommendations.
• Assists with analyzing test and operational problems to determine presence and scope of potential code defects. Reports errors through a structured defect tracking process. Communicates weekly with management verbally and via written detail status report regarding potential problems and concerns.
• Review and analyze business & system requirements and specifications for performance testability.
• Acquire and maintain a working knowledge of testing tools. Expand business knowledge of product benefits, corporate policies, division and department goals and department procedures.
• Work with functional Tester and Development counterparts to ensure adequate coverage for upcoming releases and keep up-to data with system changes that impact performance testing.
• Assists and coordinates with customers, the research, analysis and proposed solutions to test discrepancies and test scenarios. Verify satisfaction of internal and external customer-s request and obtain information to create test data.
• Participates in project work group meetings (internal/external peer reviews, walk through, status meetings, PI Planning, etc.)
• Participates in system architecture change reviews and assessment of system capacity impacts. Benchmarks system performance.