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Senior Associate, Performance and Failover Testing

SALARY: $80k - $110k plus 10% bonus

LOCATION: DALLAS

3 days onsite

Looking for a candidate with 2-3 years performance failover testing on cloud and on prem. n-tiered environments, jmeter, selenium, spiratest and LoadRunner. Conduct failover tests by simulations of hardware software and network failures

This role will be responsible for Performance and Failover testing which includes but not limited to segments of the planning, design, and execution of performance, failover tests and produce the reports.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

• Analyze the business requirements, understand the expectation from end user, review with Business Analysts/SMEs and design test scenarios.
• Works closely with development, QA, and operations teams to understand application architecture and performance requirements.
• 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

• Experience in Performance and Failover testing on cloud & on-prem for n-tiered environments.
• 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.

Education and/or Experience

• 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.