Sr. Performance Test Engineer

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Sr. Performance Test Engineer
Chicago, IL
Sr. Performance Test Engineer
needed for a well-known company offering a dynamic and challenging work environment! This is a FTE
opportunity, located in downtown Chicago.
If you are a qualified Sr. Performance Test Engineer and meet the profile below, please send your resume via email to [Click Here to Email Your Resume]
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You must be willing to attend an in-person interview at the client site.
Working within a dynamic and fast paced team environment, the Performance Test Engineer is responsible for developing performance test strategies/methodologies, scripting, effective execution of the performance strategy, troubleshooting and analysis application and website performance. Is an expert with HP/Mercury LoadRunner and application performance management (APM) tools with specific experience on web-based platforms. The Performance Test Engineer possesses a strong understanding of the connections and dependencies between business applications.
Responsibilities
Performs workflow analysis and recommends quality improvements.
Participates in requirement analysis contributing to clear and testable performance requirements.
Participates in project planning events to contribute and support risk policies.
Contributes and assists with establishing improvement recommendations in compliance with existing policies and processes.
Ensures areas of reuse or repeatable test, level of risk and probability of occurrence.
Creates performance test plans, scripts and executes performance test scenarios.
Develop and maintain scalable, reusable performance test scripts using HP/Mercury LoadRunner.
Execute performance test scripts and analyze load test results.
Continuously improve efficiencies in the performance lab environment, testing, and result reporting processes.
Participates in post-production review (in some cases recommend or set up these review meetings).
Review, understand and ensure that performance requirements are correct, testable and documented.
Ensures testing has an emphasis on high risk deliverables.
Maintain a strong understanding of the connections and dependencies between applications in the environment.
Identify and communicate defect trends or root cause that. will contribute to improvements minimizing or eliminating re-occurrence.
Consistently meets documented deadlines and objectives.
Publishes performance test results report.
Defines and documents overall test strategy, objectives and scope following the SQA standard processes and procedures.
Creates performance test plans, scripts and executes performance test scenarios.
Documents & trains on process improvements & communicates to others who are effected.
Performs and publishes results of defect analysis based on defined criteria.
Ensures documentation is produced within the applicable SDLC phase of the project and in compliance to the standard SQA processes and procedures.
Ensures that any inadequacies in the product, the process or the standards are brought to IT management’s attention with suggested improvements, so inadequacies can be corrected.
Ensures deviations from standards and procedures are made visible in a timely manner.
Works to resolve complex problems.
Consults with other technology teams on site performance, monitoring, and security.
Keeps QA Leadership informed of activities through status reporting or other means.
Communicates honestly, clearly and openly.
Participates in project related meetings and/or communications.
Required Experience
4 years Performance Engineering/Testing experience using HP/Mercury LoadRunner.
1 years’ Experience with Dynatrace, HP Sitescope monitoring and enterprise monitoring as a whole.
Demonstrated ability to efficiently work on multiple complex projects or assignments concurrently with aggressive timelines.
In-depth debugging ability to help identify root causes and possible solutions for issues.
Experience with the following technologies a plus: Splunk.
Tivoli Performance Monitor, TPV, and others.
IBM Websphere Application Server, Portal Server, Process Server.
Web Services and SOA.
Tivoli Datastage Enterprise Edition and/or Tivoli Workload Scheduler.
AIX, Linux, and other flavors of UNIX.
Java.
Demonstrated practical application of iterative tuning procedures.
Strong ability to analyze/interpret technical data.
Expert troubleshooting & reasoning skills.
Solid understanding of throughput, latency, memory, CPU utilization, and resource contention.
Demonstrates excellent effective and diplomatic oral and written communication skills.
Demonstrates excellent documentation preparation skills.
Demonstrates excellent organizational and prioritization skills.
Exposure to formal testing tools like Mercury Quality Center or IBM. Rational Quality Manager (RQM) preferred.
Flexibility with hours and is dependent on the project needs.
Education Requirements
Education and/or work experience equivalent to a four year college degree in Computer Science or Computer Information Systems.
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