Titlu Job: Senior Performance Engineer in Bucharest
Sumary:
• Position: Performance Engineering Lead / QA & Testing Lead Engineer
• Sector: IT (Banking Industry)
• Location: Bucharest
• Type of Job: Full Time
• Salary: negotiable
• Other benefits: Hi-Tech Environment, Career Development, International Exposure And Travel Opportunities, Competitive Compensation and Benefits, Meal Tickets, Health Insurance, Gym Membership, Flexible Working Hours, Work For Home Program (4 Days / Month), Annual Events where you may invite a companion
Our client is one of the leading global investment banks, operating in more than 70 countries worldwide.
The Performance Engineering is part of the Global Enterprise Testing Team that serves projects centrally for the whole group. Working on various projects from various business areas, with various technologies, the expert in performance testing and monitoring tools will join different project teams and help them build a robust and safe application for production use.
The Performance Lead Engineer defines and manages testing strategies, plans and deliverables related to performance testing within specific applications and programmes of work on a global basis, in accordance to the client’s high quality standards.
The Performance Engineer must possess or demonstrate solid experience in Performance tools, Solution Architecture Design and programming experience.
Responsibilities:
• Participate in the hands on test creation / execution / analysis and reporting of non-functional testing activities.
• Writing and ownership of test plan including effort estimation, test cases, test data and environment setup.
• Work on tasks identified in the testing strategy and plan and will coordinate with all team members, including offshore colleagues.
• Identifies and classifies risks as they arise and follows plan for risk response and mitigation.
• Conducts Proof of Concept using technical tools and evaluates ROI and feasibility studies.
• Has a strong ownership of performance testing activities and provides input to the project plan/release plan, defect/change management processes, systems integration, testing tools and processes.
• Performance bottleneck identification, troubleshooting and suggestion of possible solutions
• Documents test summary, provision of product improvement suggestions and communicates the results.
• Manages / influences key stakeholder expectations and delivers against agreed standards
• Designs innovative, sustainable solutions which are congruent with the strategic direction of the Bank
• Displays robust knowledge of change management tools and techniques to support stakeholders throughout the change curve
Skills:
• Expert in relevant tools such as HP Performance Centre / HP LoadRunner and JMeter.
• Expert in Monitoring tools like AppDynamics, DynaTrace, Sitescope, JConsole/VisualVM
• QA Automation experience
• 7+ years of experience in software development, testing and support with minimum 5 years in hands-on Performance Testing;
• Strong experience in software development processes, models, lifecycles and methodologies, with particular emphasis on Agile methodology;
• Excellent skills in Test planning, designing, and test strategy/case/script creation and execution;
• Able to balance scope, quality, effort, schedule and risk at all times
• Experience with application development and multi-platform architectures, understanding of various client-server technologies that are running in a very complex environment
• Experience with defect and change tracking, producing performance metrics
• Ability to influence and indirectly lead / provide thought leadership on performance testing.
• Experienced in Process Development & Management, Risk Management, Quality Management, Project Management & Project Governance
• Previous experience working effectively in globally and culturally diverse teams as well as in matrix organisations.
• Good programming skills, like C, Java Script, SQL
• Fluent in English, verbally and writing
Nice to have:
• Continuous Integration: TeamCity or Jenkins
• Usage of test management tools: Jira, ALM
• Linux, Java
Education / Certification:
• Bachelor’s or higher degree from an accredited college or university with an IT-related concentration (or equivalent diploma/work experience)
• Participation and/or completion in Testing certification programmes (Six Sigma, ISTQB, ISEB or tool specific certifications)
More information:
• Alexandru Frumosu
• alexandru.frumosu@itspecrecruitment.com
• 0040 (0)799 945 909
