What will you be doing?

The Performance Test Engineer will support efforts to validate the solution design by testing the application against performance requirements. They will support the test leads by creating detailed performance test tasks for the work plan and providing accurate status of these tasks. Develops detailed test plans and results artifacts. The Performance Tester will identify and create detailed test cases and test scripts and map to appropriate requirements and design specifications.

-The Performance Tester will have the following job responsibilities:

-Supports Test Lead in upward stakeholder management, status report development, metrics, etc.

-Creates performance test approach and strategy from system requirements and design documents

-Establishes verifiable performance benchmarks for system and system components

-Assists in identifying clear performance requirements / measurement criteria from poorly defined metrics

-Ability to identify test cases and map them to performance/system/integration requirements for appropriate testing coverage

- Responsible for creating and maintaining test artifacts (plans, reports, dashboards) and ensuring they meet client's expectations

- Manages the creation of required test data and data loads for each performance test run

-Manages shakeout testing and maintaining performance test environment

-Create accurate time estimates and meet schedules for performance/stress testing efforts

-Manages effort of automating the performance/load test scripts

-Performs execution of test cases/runs to meet required execution targets to keep the project on schedule

-Analyzes data gathered from performance test runs and provides sound recommendations for performance improvements and can identify bottlenecks of web applications

-Recommend to the proper teams performance tuning in different categories: system, platform, application, etc. as necessary

-Reviews test results in test tools and validates test cases are complete and of high quality

-Communicates any testing issues and/or risks to Test Lead in a timely fashion

-Communicate effectively with architecture, design, and development teams to learn system and resolve defects

-Willingness to work a flexible schedule as needed to manage execution of test cases

-Willingness to work in an Agile Framework environment

Basic Qualifications: 

-2 years testing experience.

-1 year experience in Performance Test using performance test tools (i.e. HP Load Runner, IBM Rational Performance Tester, Load Impact, Load Test, etc.)

-Active SECRET security clearance is REQUIRED