Performance Test Architect

at  FalconSmartIT

Job Title: Performance Test Architect
Job Type: Permanent / Contract Inside IR35
Job Location: London, UK

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Responsibilities – Performance architect for Performance Engineering, who will own all the service offering involving Performance Testing and Performance Monitoring using APM tools

MUST HAVE SKILLS:

• Person with 14-18 years of experience in IT with at least 10 years’ experience in Performance Testing & engineering and 2-3 years exposure to Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Experience in test consulting and strategy using LoadRunner, NeoLoad and Open Source (JMeter) tools for performance testing and engineering
• Proficient in NFT process including Security, Accessibility, Operational Acceptance testing
• Has experience in supporting proposals & estimations
• Good experience in providing solutions for performance testing and engineering by understanding the requirements
• Excellent decision maker with strong performance architect level knowledge on both technology and infrastructure
• Should be good in communication with excellent people management skills.
• Need to have implementation experience of various innovative ideas
• Very strong in design of test framework, load simulation model, load stats calculations
• Knowledge in CICD solutions such as Jenkins, GitHub actions
• Experience working with GitHub
• Strong expertise in Performance Test frameworks and implementation processes
• Proficient in different types of performance testing (Stress, Volume, Load, etc.) to align the business requirements in Performance test models
• Strong knowledge on profilers, APM monitoring & log analytics tools like dynatrace, AppDynamics, New Relic, Jprofiler, Splunk, Cloud native analytics tools etc.,
• Drive innovations and think through aspects of automation in solutions
• Devise performance testing tool solutions & IP with graphing tools, time-series databases, ELK stack
• Should have expertise in effort estimation for performance engineering activities
• Good understanding and hands-on experience of doing Performance testing in Agile environment using Continuous Integration Tools – Jenkins/Maven
• Should have been a subject matter expert with Customer facing roles.
• Exposure for creating collaterals for marketing and sales support
• Good understanding of Automation with open-source test automation tools / frameworks (Selenium, API automation tools) on Cloud Applications.
• Application clustering / load balancing concepts and technologies on Cloud Platform.
• Basic knowledge on Storage and DB Server configuration on AWS/Azure/GCP.
• Proficiency with two or more of the programming languages: JAVA, Perl, Python.
• Good understanding of AWS\Azure micro services architecture
• Basic Exposure to PaaS technologies and Containers like Docker, Kubernetes and understanding of virtualization Concepts.

SOFT SKILL

• Soft Skills: Good communication, analytical and presentation skills, problem solving skills and learning attitude.

Please refer the Job description for details