JR. PERFORMANCE TESTER

Position Overview:

• Possesses the technical skill.
• The IT Business Systems Delivery (BSD) Customer Engagement Product Delivery team supports, manages and implements a portfolio of IT system capital initiatives with our Customer Operations, Energy Management, Steam and Customer Energy Solution (CES) business partners.
• This IT team supports each initiative from conception to implementation and provides the necessary IT support required to either enhance existing systems, create or enhance interfaces and or design, develop, test and implement new applications.
• The Customer Engagement Capital Product Delivery Team is looking for a Performance Tester with strong communications skills, to work within existing IT teams to help foster relationships, facilitate and coordinate standard project operations and support and drive excellence.

Responsibilities:

• Performance Testing Planning and Strategy:
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to define performance testing objectives and requirements.
  • Develop a comprehensive performance testing strategy and plan.
• Performance Test Design:
  • Design and create performance test scenarios based on application requirements and usage patterns.
  • Determine the appropriate load levels, concurrency, and transaction volumes for different test scenarios.
  • Develop test scripts and define workload models for performance tests.
• Test Environment Setup:
  • Configure and set up the performance testing environment to accurately simulate production conditions.
  • Ensure hardware, software, network configurations, and other resources meet the performance testing requirements.
• Collaboration and Communication:
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams including developers, QA engineers, system administrators, and project managers to ensure a holistic approach to performance testing.
  • Effectively communicate performance test plans, progress, issues, and results to stakeholders.
• Tools and Technologies:
  • Utilize appropriate performance testing tools and technologies (e.g., JMeter, LoadRunner, Gatling) to conduct tests effectively.
• Performance Tuning and Optimization:
  • Provide recommendations for performance improvements based on test results and analysis.
  • Collaborate with development teams to optimize code and system performance.
• Security and Compliance:
  • Ensure that performance testing activities comply with security and privacy standards.
  • Collaborate with security teams to identify and report any security vulnerabilities discovered during performance testing.
• Documentation:
  • Maintain detailed documentation of performance testing processes, test scenarios, test scripts, and results for future reference and knowledge sharing.

Required Technical Skills:

• Ability to react / produce in an Agile project atmosphere.
• Experience creating and writing Performance Test Plans.
• Experience executing test cases / scripts.
• Experience with Apache JMeter and Grafana Experience with Azure Web Tests.
• Experience with AppInsights Automated Web Tests.
• Experience with Azure DevOps and Azure Test Plans.
• Experience with Azure DevOps Work Item Tracking and Pipelines.
• Experience with concepts of API testing.