Senior Performance Engineer

Overview

You will act as a Senior Non-Functional Performance Test Engineer leading technical areas within Quality Engineering projects using available frameworks and tools to establish client project plans.

Responsibilities

• Manage multiple phases of technical areas within a project and/or multiple small projects of moderate scope and sometimes complex assignments
• Assure the project meets quality standards by providing technical guidance in planning, designing, executing testing, and developing procedures relating to product quality
• Apply data analysis, data modelling, and quality engineering techniques, based upon a detailed understanding of business processes, to establish and maintain data structures and associated components (entity descriptions, relationship descriptions, attribute definitions)
• Coordinate the creation of test cases using own in-depth technical analysis of non-functional specifications
• Write high quality scripts in a chosen tool and build into a scenario to test defined non-functional use cases
• Identify project risks and report effectively to relevant stakeholders
• Implement robust error handling and clear/consistent reporting functionality, investigating and reporting on hazards and potential risk events within a project or business area.
• Create traceability records, from test cases back to requirements, report on system quality and collect metrics on test cases
• Provide detailed advice regarding the application of technologies
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related field, or equivalent work experience
• Additional course or certification in Quality Engineering

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related field, or equivalent work experience
• Additional course or certification in Quality Engineering
• Certification in NFT Tools such as LoadRunner, MSVS, CISSP, CISM, etc

Essential skills

• Excellent client-facing skills
• People management skills - introducing and building ways in which people can learn from each other, encouraging mentoring and the transfer of knowledge by designing and delivering learning interventions
• Team work and emotional intelligence
• Good self-management – continuous performance is both an objective and a mind-set
• Has an innovative approach – a bold thinker and doer, matching creativity with vigilance
• High value on openness and transparency
• Renowned as an effective coach

Experience

• Experience in designing, coding, testing and correcting scripts from agreed specifications, and subsequent iterations, using agreed standards and tools, to achieve a well-engineered result
• Experience in implementing robust error handling and clear/consistent reporting functionality
• Knowledge of relevant testing tools in NFT and test automation: LoadRunner/StormRunner/Performance Center, JMeter, MSVS, Borland Silk Performer, Blazemeter, NeoLoad, Gatling, LoadUI, ALM, Dynatrace, Wireshark, SiteScope, OWASP, Cucumber or Selenium
• Programming knowledge (ideally VB, Java, C#) and technical expertise in script languages (Shell, Perl, etc.)
• Strong knowledge on Cloud concepts and virtualisation
• Experience in managing several non-functional projects through all phases
• Good applications/technology knowledge, building on specialist domain knowledge with practical experience of engineering/development tools and platforms required to deliver
• Solid understanding with respect to and design, implementation and system integration, execution as well as results evaluation, problem resolution and planning
• Experience in managing a team and coordinating time and budget preferable

Benefits

At Expleo, we are committed to providing a competitive salary and a substantial benefits offering with unique wellbeing, financial and employee recognition programmes.

We pride ourselves on our diverse and inclusive culture and offer a variety of family friendly policies and enhanced leave to help our you achieve a healthy work life balance.

By providing significant learning and development opportunities, we encourage individual growth and success throughout your career with us.

 

• Collaborative working environment – we stand shoulder to shoulder with our clients and ours peers through good times and challenges
• We empower all passionate technology loving professionals by allowing them to expand their skills and take part in inspiring projects
• Expleo Academy - enables you to acquire and develop the right skills by delivering a suite of accredited training courses
• Competitive company benefits such as medical and dental