Performance Test Analyst

New Jersey  ‐ Onsite
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Description

Title: Performance Tester

Location: Jersey City, NJ
Duration: 12+ month contract
Term: Contract/C2C (NO THIRD PARTIES PLEASE)
Client: Banking/Financial
Rate: Market

Our Tier One Banking client has a need for a Performance Test Analyst.

Key Responsibilities

Review Functional Specification Documents (FSD's) and Non-Functional Requirements (NFR's) documents to identify the architectural changes performance test requirements for each release

Define the overall performance test strategy for each release

Analyze current production performance metrics as an alternate source of NFR's and benchmarks

Define and translate NFR's into test requirements, test scenarios and cases documented in HP ALM

Define, track and manage testing milestones for each cycle and release of testing

Identify the available mechanisms for gathering application-level and system level performance metrics for each release.

Analyze raw results from performance runs and compare to previously captured benchmarks

Convert raw data results files into meaningful and presentable performance test reports for senior project stakeholders

Define reporting templates which effectively demonstrate the performance difference between the benchmark and the new release

Provide daily and weekly status reports for senior project stakeholders as well as end-of-release performance testing reports for internal audit demonstrating coverage of requirements

Required Skills

Solid understanding of the performance testing process including non-functional requirements definition, test strategy definition, test case/test script definition, test execution, performance analysis, bottleneck identification and reporting

Excellent verbal and written communication skills are required to interact with CIO level execs

Prior performance testing, performance analysis and bottleneck identification experience with large enterprise systems spanning multiple tiers and encompassing many concurrent business processes

In depth experience using HP ALM for management of performance testing requirements, test cases and test scripts.

Experience with LoadRunner Scripting and test execution is a plus but is not a job requirement.

Prior testing experience with batch/feed processing systems and data transformation systems is required.

Financial test experience is a plus.

Web/online app testing experience is not required.

Prior in depth experience with enterprise system monitoring including Oracle Enterprise Manager, Oracle AWR and Nimsoft UMP.

Cloudera Hadoop monitoring experience is a plus.

Intermediate level SQL skills required for extraction of application-level performance test results using tools such as TOAD or Oracle SQL Developer

Advanced Excel skills are required for post-processing of performance test results

Intermediate to Advanced PowerPoint skills required to translate raw performance test results into a format that is digestible by developers and senior executives alike

Testing experience required for enterprise technologies including J2EE, Oracle Exadata, Hadoop, JMS, BPM plus familiarity with reporting and BI solutions such as Axiom, Cognos and MicroStrategy.

Start date
ASAP
Duration
1+ year
(extension possible)
From
Mansion House Consulting
Published at
22.10.2014
Project ID:
795088
Contract type
Freelance
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