Principal QA performance Engineer, AVP

Overview

Senior member of a Performance Engineering scrum team assessing and analyzing the performance of Charles River's products, identifying bottlenecks and recommending improvements, and supporting customers and other teams.

What you'll do

• Work closely with Product Owners, Scrum Teams, Implementation Teams or Professional Services to understand the Non-Functional Requirements of products and projects.
• Create and maintain functionality within Performance Test Frameworks.
• Create comprehensive performance test plans from Non-Functional Requirements.
• Create and execute automated performance tests.
• Create, organize and maintain test artifacts.
• Analyze test results to identify potential bottlenecks.
• Spin up and tear down test environments as and when required.
• Document software defects in the issue tracking system and proactively communicate issues with developers and other project team members.
• Adhere to a testing schedule to ensure efficient and effective product delivery.
• Actively participate in the agile software development process under the CRD Scrum methodology, including daily standups, sprint planning, backlog grooming and retrospectives.
• Participate in cross-functional team activities as needed.

What you'll need

• B.S. degree (or foreign education equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics or other technical course of study, or Business with an MIS background.
• 10-12 years of experience in Performance Test Engineering in a process-driven technology environment on Cloud-based infrastructure.
• Demonstrated critical thinking and problem-solving skills involving multi-tiered, high-performance database applications.
• Extensive experience with Performance Testing Tools (LoadRunner, JMeter, NeoLoad or equivalent).
• Extensive experience with APM/Observability Tools (Dynatrace, Datadog, AppDynamics etc.).
• Extensive experience with bottleneck analysis.
• Experience with C#, Java, SQL, PowerShell and Bash.
• Familiarity with Windows OS.
• Demonstrated experience implementing and executing performance testing against web, native/desktop applications, APIs and batch applications.
• Demonstrated ability to translate business requirements into comprehensive non-functional and technical test plans.
• A minimum of 5 years working with an Agile development methodology (strongly desired).
• Effective written and verbal communication skills.

Nice to have

• MS degree (strongly preferred).
• Experience in one or more industry-standard profiling tools.
• DevOps skills, e.g. Python, knowledge of different Cloud Platforms, CI/CD tools (Jenkins, TeamCity or equivalent), Git/GitHub.
• Knowledge of Financial Services.

Details

• Supervisory responsibility: Individual Contributor.
• Travel may be required on a limited basis.
• Location: Hyderabad, India.