What will you contribute?

Reporting to the Development Manager, the Senior Automation Quality Engineer will work closely with development engineering and product development teams to understand the performance and other non-functional requirements on projects.  This position requires a highly motivated individual that is comfortable with rapid changes in direction and a fluid environment.  The successful candidate should be detail-oriented, approachable, dependable, and reliable with good business sense and judgment.  This position requires a self-starter with the ability to manage & prioritize multiple concurrent automation and performance testing projects.

Responsibilities & Deliverables:

Your deliverables as a Senior Automation Quality Engineer will include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Deliver against performance engineering goals
• Execute Performance Engineering and Testing activities leveraging Agile methodology
• Create, re-factor, extend, and maintain performance test scripts. 
• Help determine appropriate metrics to be gathered during performance testing and be responsible for analyzing and tracking against these performance testing metrics on an ongoing basis.
• Help determine appropriate benchmarks for performance and be responsible for analysis and tracking against these benchmarks.
• Design and implement performance, scalability, stability, and stress tests using industry standard tools, and custom solutions.
• Assist in driving the performance, scalability, and capacity testing strategy.
• Gather performance test requirements and create performance qualification plans.
• Collaborate with development and production support teams on identification of bottlenecks and performance tuning.
• Benchmark Production and Test Labs for base lining and ensure accuracy of test simulation
• Develop tools to simulate and monitor key performance metrics as needed.
• Understanding of impact of application design on performance.
• Work collaboratively across multiple teams to achieve results.
• Communicate test results vs. test schedule and test plans.

Required Experience:

• 6 years of  progressive technical experience in Development, design, performance engineering roles
• Experience in Automation QA.
• Basic knowledge of Core java, Oracle SQL,Jira tool, Jenkins, Azure.
• Experience working within a fast-paced Agile/SCRUM system is a strong preference
• Experience with source control and issue tracking systems.
• Experience with a Test Driven Development (TDD) / Behavior Driven Development (BDD) environment.
• Experience with large complex distributed transactional systems