QA Lead (Performance)

QA Lead (Performance) will lead a team of offshore/onshore performance engineers. Work closely with the QA Manager, the development team leads/architecture team and product management on understanding the design/architecture and building Non-Functional Requirements. As the QA Lead (Performance), your role is to ensure the application and infrastructure can handle the production load and ensuring there are no bottlenecks while scaling up/down based on the traffic. You will create robust scripts with data combinations mimicking Production traffic on lower environment to capture metrics (SLAs). Passion for learning, collaboration is a must!

 

RESPONSIBILTIES

• Identifying performance test environment requirements and collaborating with the infrastructure, network operations, environment, and release teams to set up the environment for effective SLA measurements.
• Providing professional project planning, estimation, non-functional test approaches, technical test solutions, issue/risk management, and results/analysis in keeping with organization's standards.
• Managing performance testing lifecycle, including the development of test strategy, impact assessment, test plan, test execution (manual and automation), test report, and quality assurance.
• Creating performance test use cases and test scenarios within the defined scope.
• Developing data-driven test scripts and executing performance and load testing of applications.
• Building modular automated performance test scripts for web-based and mobile applications utilizing SOA design and APIs in a continuous integration environment and providing remediation plans.
• Researching new ways of performance testing and recommending system configuration and tuning improvements based on observations.
• Taking ownership of the non-functional test solution from project initiation to final acceptance, with responsibility for each NFT milestone within the cycle.
• Coordinating with 3rd party vendors, contract developers, and/or partners as required.
• Coordinating with a technical team of vendors, depending on project performance delivery requirements.
• Developing functional automation test cases for customer interactive performance testing.
• Uplifting peer testing, regression testing, and automation skills.
• Contributing to the Enterprise Performance roadmap.
• Creating knowledge management-related deliverables such as tools related processes and procedures.

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE QUALIFICATIONS

• 4 - year degree required
• 7 years of overall experience in software testing preferred
• 3 years of lead experience with performance testing tools like JMeter (preferred), LoadRunner, Neoload preferred
• Experience working on cloud-based execution platforms like Blaze meter and inhouse cloud based distributed VMs on Azure/AWS
• Experience in scripting for UI and Services
• Experience in monitoring and building performance stats on tools like new relic, Datadog
• Experience with version control tools like GIT
• Need to have clear understanding of CI/CD implementation.
• Proficient in establishing strong test data management tools/framework.
• Experience in Retail domain is a plus.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES

• In-depth understanding of performance testing environment setup and SLA measurement.
• Proficiency in project planning, estimation, and risk management.
• Experience in performance testing lifecycle management and quality assurance.
• Ability to develop data-driven test scripts and carry out performance and load testing.
• Skill in creating automated performance test scripts for web-based and mobile applications.
• Knowledge of system configuration and tuning for performance optimization.
• Leadership skills to manage a technical team and coordinate with third-party vendors and partners.
• Experience in developing functional automation test cases.
• Skills in regression testing and automation.
• Openness to learning new techniques, technologies, and tools.
• Ability to work with multiple automation and profiling test tools, both standard and open-source.

Knowledge of knowledge management and related deliverables such as tools related processes and procedures

 

Inspire Brands is a multi-brand restaurant company whose portfolio includes more than 32,000 Arby’s, Baskin-Robbins, Buffalo Wild Wings, Dunkin’, Jimmy John’s, and SONIC restaurants worldwide.

We’re made up of some of the world’s most iconic restaurant brands, but we’re much more than just a restaurant company. We’re a team of hundreds of thousands who individually and collectively are changing the way people eat, drink, and gather around the table. We know that food is much more than a staple—it