Quality Engineer – Performance

The Challenge

The Quality Engineer Performance a hands-on role which builds performance scripts for long term product scalability and stability. In this role, the resource is closely working with the product team to understand the functionality being developed and writes robust automation and performance scripts to meet the acceptance criteria.

• As the resource matures in understanding the breadth and depth of product functionality, the resource should be able to bring in critical thinking to ask the “what if” questions to strengthen the tests.

• The role evaluates continuous improvement by improving the effectiveness of the automated tests

• This role understands customer use cases and usage models in production to begin incorporating the right tests in the release pipeline

• This role begins to understand the dependency models and makes informed decisions to test intelligently

• This role also begins active engagement in a Devops mindset toward rapid deployments and anchors the product scrum team to meet quality deliverables.

Your Mission

• Participate in daily scrums, sprint retrospectives, and sprint demos

• Understand and translate business and technical requirements into various types of performance tests.

• Continuously experiment with product teams to help strengthen the product SLAs

• Work with product management, and other functional teams to own and deliver performance/load test plans

• Execute and maintain the automation test suite

• Evaluate build quality by examining the test results from build acceptance tests in continuously deployed environments, multiple times a day

• Define test data and reports for both functional and non-functional requirements

• Raise defects found during the evaluation and work with the development teams to get them resolved

• Add, maintain and update scripts in existing automation suite, helping with running the suite across various checkpoints in the release cycle

• Adhere to best practices and coding standards

• Stay current on modern software development best practices, emerging technologies, and design patterns and contribute to thought leadership efforts

• Work to analyze the performance of the environments and troubleshoot to identify problem areas

• Use strong communication and natural curiosity to provide trusted and highly valuable feedback

• Increase the performance footprint by automating the tests prioritized within the team

• Shift left by automating in the right levels so that early feedback is provided to the developers

• Focus on keeping the testing time to minimum by engaging in building a good test framework that allows for quick feedback.

• Troubleshoot issues arising from scripts, environment, product and raise appropriate defects

• Continuously iterate on keeping the test scripts portable and scalable

• Keep the automated tests clean and healthy, allowing teams to depend on these test results

• Deprecate noisy and irrelevant tests

• Ruthlessly focus on continuous improvement and use every opportunity to provide the right levels of automation

• Continuously experiment to use modern technologies

You Are

• Effective collaborator. Speaks clearly and succinctly in standups and clearly indicates the status of tasks assigned

• Great team player, helps find defects, resolve with right test cases and data and can influence the right level of automation

• High energy and is very efficient, effective and reliable

• The tests written and conducted by the resource is comprehensive and does not lead to too many escaped defects to production.

• Continuous improvement areas focusing on the right levels of automation

• Exhibits the right attitude, start gaining knowledge on Devops mindset and shift-left principles.

• Understands the errors in logs and can troubleshoot product issues

• Excellent oral and written communication. Ability to work as part of a team.

• Proficient communications skills.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills and root causes analysis.

• Passion for high quality work and attention to detail.

You experience includes:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or related technical or business field.

• 1+ years of relevant experience working as a developer, automation engineer, SDET or performance engineer

• Knowledge in any of the defect tracking tools like JIRA and test tracking tools like QTest, ALM, Qmetry.

• 1+ years of experience coding in Java and must have strong practical knowledge of OOPs and Core Java principles.

• 1+ years of understanding APIs and automation using tools like Postman, SOAP, or REST Assured

• 1+ years of experience writing or maintaining performance scripts using JMeter & Blaze Meter or equivalent tool.

• 1+ years of experience in identifying memory leakage, connection issues and ability to test the throttling within the application

• 1+ years of experience troubleshooting information from logs, use of tools like Kibana, ability to add the necessary monitors and alerts

• 1+ years of experience in executing scripts under load

• 1+ years of experience with database testing (SQL/MySQL)

• 1+ years of experience with tools such as Bitbucket, Git, Stash, Confluence, JIRA

• Basic knowledge in any of the Cloud applications (Azure, Google Cloud Platform, or Amazon Web Services)

• Has Passion for high quality work and attention to detail.

• Good communication and organizational skills

• Familiarity with Agile principles

• Ability to work as part of a team.

Extra Awesome

• Has worked in product roles within a company that has adopted Agile development methodologies

• Is very familiar with the technology components used within OneTrust stack, like Azure cloud services, java microservices, ingesting and understanding logs using ELK

• Has worked in a DevOps mindset and can influence the right levels of automation

• Clearly demonstrates critical thinking while simultaneously solving customer use cases

• Has been involved in customer support and clearly understands influence of data and test patterns

• Clear mindset on Shift-left principles.

$52,500 — $82,500/year