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.