Performance Test Manager
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Performance Test Manager
Miejsce pracy: Wroclaw
Nr Ref.: VR-6809
Responsibilites
Planning
- Define overall end to end strategy for performance testing and tuning system(s) and releases
- Define a suitable approach to performance tuning to demonstrate technical improvements within the system
- Define the correct and appropriate utilization of performance test tools for each programme or release
- Request and coordinate the use of matrix teams to fulfill the performance test requirements
- Work with the Capacity Management teams to understand current weaknesses in system and to coordinate improvements to these
- Ability to review and input into non functional requirements, especially those related to performance of a system and volumetrics
- Competent in defining when performance under load, stress, soak tests are required according to the risks on a system or release
Delivery
- Ability to define a 'day in the life' scenario of a system and be able to represent this through performance testing
- Ability to understand data flows and volumes between and within systems, and plan performance tests to cover these flows
- Ability to plan tasks for others to follow to ensure smooth delivery of a performance test project
- Ability to work flexibility to adjust to multiple demands, shifting priorities and rapid change
- Provision of regular reports of progress, and of timely reports for performance test improvements or suitability for go live
- Input into capacity management for improvements made, and results of tests (e.g. stress) as appropriate
Coordination
- Liaise with the technical architecture team for technical support throughout the performance testing process\
- Coordinate with the technical teams (including DBAs) to ensure that they are able to support, and are implementing the required performance tuning changes throughout the process
- Coordinate and arrange the required test resources for performance testing
- Coordinate with the environment teams to ensure that the correct to-be infrastructure is in place for performance testing
Performance Quality Assurance
- Work with different technical vendors to ensure that performance profiling has been completed, and that the results are satisfactory
- Provide governance and quality assurance to ensure correct performance profiling
- Assist the teams with definition of additional areas via risk based assessment which should be subject to formal performance testing
- Act as an SME for profiling tools and performance testing and tuning
Requirements
- Expert knowledge in HP Performance Center and / or IBM GreenHat
- Knowledge of performance profiling tools; eg JMeter, JRocket
- Competence in scripting languages
- Experience/technical understanding around some (but not necessarily all of): Hadoop, Tibco BW, Oracle & PL/SQL, Unix, JRules
We offer
Project is aimed at providing all kinds of testing services for back-end accounting solution used by the Customer.
System under test includes many layers:
- ETL and Big Data (Hadoop)
- Accounting Engine (J-Rules)
- Database(Oracle)
Technologies and platforms used within the project: JMS, Unix, Oracle, Hadoop, J-Rules.
The team is distributed between locations: UK, Spain, Russia, Ukraine and Poland.