Description
NFT Failover/Resilience Analyst, Unix, Linux, Oracle, Middleware apps, London/Manchester or Bournemouth
This role will assist the Test Manager/Test Lead in the analysis, preparation and execution of failover/resiliency tests for a Payments solution.
Accountabilities:
- Work as an integral part of a team of failover/ resilience testing specialists in delivering a high quality testing service to the Payments programme.
Responsibilities:
- Understand the non-functional requirements
- Define the tests that will be required to prove the NFRs
- Test execution be that automated or manual, depending on the requirement
- Timely and accurate gathering of all test results, metrics and analysis statistics from all components within scope and produce standardised reports as defined by the Test Lead.
- Ensure communication channels with NFT management are always maintained.
Key Skills
- Must have extensive experience (minimum three years) in failover/resilience/Disaster Recovery/OAT testing, specifically of Middleware and database intensive applications.
- Must have extensive experience in scoping/designing failover tests.
- Must have very good communication skills; verbal and written.
- Must have extensive hands-on experience of UNIX/ Linux at a command line level.
- Must have extensive hands-on experience of Oracle databases.
- Must have extensive hands-on experience of Middleware applications; WAS, Tuxedo and MQ
- Should have a working knowledge of HP Quality Centre.
- Desirable to have a working knowledge of interpreting output from monitoring toolsets ie AWR, Wily, Team Quest and NMON.
- Desirable to have experience using HP LoadRunner, particularly with respect to Middleware ie MQ and database testing.
- Desirable to have good experience in using SQL
- Desirable to have payments domain knowledge, particularly SEPA
- Desirable to have payments application knowledge