*Hybrid, 3 days onsite, 2 days remote*

*We are unable to sponsor as this is a permanent Full time role*

A prestigious company is looking for a Application/Cloud Performance & Failover Tester. This company is looking for someone with 2-3 years of experience working in application performance & failover testing. They will test applications, network, cloud, etc. They MUST come from a Kafka or messaging environment.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop performance test scripts and scenarios using appropriate tools and frameworks.
• Monitor system behavior during performance, Load, Stress, and failover tests and ensure systems meet recovery time objectives.
• Conduct failover tests by simulations of hardware, software, and network failures.
• Identify performance bottlenecks, root causes, and potential solutions.
• Analyze Results, compare against SLAs, Benchmarks and Provide tuning recommendations to improve End User Experience.
• Document findings in Test management tool and provide actionable recommendations for improving performance/failover processes.
• Work closely with development, QA and Operations teams to integrate performance and failover testing into the overall testing Approach documentation.
• Collaborate with Enterprise Quality Process team and ensure standards are followed during failover testing and audit checks are passed.
• Find opportunity to automate, improve existing process, & contribute towards innovation by doing POCs on latest technologies.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's/master's degree in computer science, Engineering, and any related discipline.
• 2-3 years in the areas of Performance/Failover Testing/Architecture/DevOps.
• knowledge of high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) concepts.
• Experience in collaborating with Development, Site Reliability Engineering, Cloud Engineering, Security in evaluating performance & scalability issues.
• Understand the architecture of high volume transactional SaaS Systems.
• Hands-on experience building test automation and failover test suites.
• Experience in Performance and Failover testing on cloud & on-prem for n-tiered environments.
• MUST COME FROM A KAFKA ENVIRONMENT
• Good understanding of application architecture, Non-Functional Requirements & identifying production workloads.
• Some experience in using tools such as JMeter, Selenium, SpiraTest, and LoadRunner
• Good understanding of load, soak, scalability, and other types of performance tests.
• Understanding of AWS or Azure platform to run performance and failover tests.
• Exposure in performance engineering for J2EE/.NET/LAMP, etc.
• Familiar with monitoring queues with tools like Any Point, MQ Explorer etc.
• Experience in running automated performance tests via CI/CD pipelines (on platforms like Cloud bees, GitHub etc.)
• Experience with application monitoring/Observability, building dashboards, identifying & establishing SLA's, logging & tracing.
• Understanding of Capacity planning and Performance tuning.
• Familiar with container technologies such as Docker or Kubernetes.