Performance Test Lead

Responsibilities and JD in brief along with additional criteria to be considered (if any) :

Roles and Responsibilities :

• Gather non-functional requirements documents based on client SME inputs, reviewing demos of existing systems
• Accountable for creating application and infrastructure performance plans / models for a highly scalable, low-latency, highly-available and high-throughput system.
• Should have experience in defining Performance Strategy and reporting performance baselines required to certify Go-Lives. Should have strong experience in handling multiple tasks and stakeholders
• Consolidate inputs from project teams, estimate effort using estimation methodologies and prepare test strategy documents based on requirements, testing environment and non-functional attributes
• Develop or validate test design consisting of scenarios, types of testing and number of cycles of testing required for the test module
• Understand and performance test the APIs, abstractions and integration patterns to solve challenging distributed computing problems.
• Should be well versed in documenting the steps performed during course of performance tests cycle including performance test scripts used
• Should be able to provide mentor support emphasizing performance testing methodology, preparation, scripting, execution planning, simulation and test results reporting.
• Review complex test case scenarios and develop performance test scripts
• Ensure that the test environment is set up in collaboration with the client teams, validate test data for different modules, identify risks in data setup, ensure backup and restore process.
• Review infrastructure of Performance Test environment and ensure timely maintenance of Infrastructure for Performance tests.
• Design test scenario and execute performance tests, validate results of test executed by team, analyze test results and identify performance bottlenecks
• Manage onsite and offshore communications
• Co-ordinate with other support teams like Infrastructure, Database Admin, Network teams to complete the tests successfully.

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