Position: Senior Performance Test Engineer
Company: Forte Group
Category: QA Automation
Experience required: 3y
English level: fluent

Forte Group is looking for Senior Performance Test Engineer to join our Core Team

As a Sr. Performance Test Engineer, you will be working collaboratively with large-scale teams, leading performance testing efforts. You will be passionate about all aspects of system performance, with a motivation to ensure the successful development and deployment of overall solutions.
Your role will focus on driving effective performance test methodology, infrastructure and application profiling, test development, performance test design and workload modeling, execution of real-world performance scenarios to simulate system behavior, and analysis/interpretation of test results, all with the goal of improving performance and reliability of applications.

**Main requirements:**
**● Tools: JMeter / LoadRunner
● Upper - intermediate / Advanced level of English
● At least 4 years of experience in Performance testing**

**Your main responsibilities are as follows:**

● Work with clients to understand technical requirements for performance test engagements
● Contribute to the formation of performance test best practices and standards within the team
● Provides mentoring, training, and leadership to mid and junior performance test team members
● Evaluate application architectures and design performance test plans
● Establish performance test objectives, acceptance criteria, workload models, and test scenarios
● Measure, analyze and interpret performance test results (workload, system, and application)
● Ensure test scenarios emulate real-world application utilization and exercise integrated systems
● Work with and provide guidance to project teams as to which business workflows are candidates for performance evaluation
● Educate clients and project teams on best practices within the performance test discipline
● Develop and enhance the performance test infrastructure and monitoring solutions used across the organization

**Principal Accountability / Application and Architecture Evaluation**
● Review physical and logical architecture diagrams and integrations
● Review relational database models
● Understand cloud-hosted and virtualized environments
● Evaluate and document differences between production and performance test environments
● Surface any potential challenges with an environment’s ability to support performance testing
● Conduct a cross-team review of evaluation findings as applicable to the performance test setup and execution

**Principal Accountability / Test Planning**
● Identify current performance challenges or issues and the desired goal of load testing
● Within authored test plans, detail all activities required to prepare for and conduct the testing effort, such as defining the testing objectives, scope, testing types to be executed, test data management, SLAs, system monitoring approach, tasks and schedules, entrance and exit/successcriteria, risk assessment, and analysis/reporting
● Hold performance test plan reviews to gain team acceptance of the developed approach

**Principal Accountability / Performance Test Script Development**
● Determine the appropriate protocols with which to develop automated test scripts
● Detailed documentation of business workflows to be scripted
The Forté Sr. Performance Test Engineer
● Preparing data in support of test development
● Work with the delivery team to ensure the readiness and stability of the system under test
● Design and produce high-quality scripts, following documented coding standards, within the
chosen performance test tool
● Use an appropriate level of code commenting for ease of understanding and transition of scripts
● Pair with testers and developers to understand application code and solve technical challenges
with test scripts
● Ensure test scripts are maintained regularly as part of the build deployment process
● Managing and maintaining reusable code as part of the script development activity
● Conducts cross-team and peer performance test script reviews as applicable

**Principal Accountability / Performance Test Execution, Analysis and Reporting**
● Develop a real-world workload model to simulate and exercise the system under test
● Set up the performance test infrastructure
● Collaboratively working with project teams, coordinate and execute Benchmark, Load, Stress and/or Soak tests while monitoring system performance
● Analyze and interpret test results to identify resource utilization issues, system contention, integration and interdependent system concerns and present findings to the technical teams

**Principal Accountability / Community**
● Collaborates outside of projects to encourage a performance test community of practice
● Establishes and carries out formal and informal educational learning sessions
● Keeps up to date on the latest trends and tools to drive efficiency
● Encourages research and self-study by fostering performance testing best practices and bringing in external perspectives

**We offer**
● Experience working with colleagues locally and abroad
● Opportunities for self-realization working on challenging projects using new technologies and tools
● Friendly team and enjoyable working environment
● Social and corporate events
● Possibility for career development
● Participation in professional trainings, meetups
● Medical & family care programs
● Various sport activities coverage
● Fully paid by Forte 5 sick days during working year
● Internal English courses provided by Forte Teacher
● Comfortable and fully equipped workplace