Position: Senior Performance QA Engineer for Ciklum Digital
Company: Ciklum
Category: QA Automation
Experience required: 2y
English level: upper

About Quality Engineering Team:

Quality Engineering Center of Excellence is an international award-winning Quality Engineering department that has rapidly evolved over the past 7 years to become a mature Quality Engineering service provider with 500+ professionals working in 7 main directions: QA Consulting and Management, DevOps, Manual, Automation, Support, Performance and Cyber Security.

About the Client:

From small beginnings in Zürich, Switzerland, Our Client set out in 2010 with a big ambition: to change the world of running. In the ten years since, they have been embraced into the hearts, and onto the feet, of more than seven million runners in over 50 countries.

Ten years later, you can buy their running shoes at over 6500 premium retail stores in over 50 countries. In addition to its European headquarters in Zurich, Client has now opened offices in the USA, Japan, Australia and Brazil. Products are winning international design and technology awards.

Responsibilities
Determine the performance test requirements and Performance Test strategy
Responsible for creating and maintaining test artifacts (plans, reports, dashboards) and ensuring they meet client's expectations
Develop and support of load testing scripts and scenarios using various protocols and exchange format for front-end, back-end and middleware systems using JMeter and other tools
Execute load, stress, volume and endurance Tests as required
Identify potential and ongoing performance and capacity issues, conduct the corresponding analysis, reporting and recommendations
Requirements
Extensive Performance Testing Experience (+2 years)
Understanding of performance bottlenecks, end-to-end performance measures (server response time, throughput, latency, etc.) and what to be tuned to get better performance and scalability
Experience with various performance testing tools (JMeter, Gatling, Locust etc.)
Solid experience with any object-oriented or scripting programming languages
Ability to set up Performance testing process from scratch and plan performance testing activities
Knowledge of performance bottlenecks and end-to-end performance measures (server response time, throughput, latency, etc.)
Working experience with service side monitoring tools (AppDynamics, NewRelic, Graphite etc.)
Ability to setup and maintain jobs using CI tools i.e. Jenkins
Strong English verbal and writing skills
Personal skills
Good analytical skills and great interest towards problem analysis and tuning
Good team player, motivated to solve complex tasks
Strong communication and problem solving skills
Self-motivated, self-disciplined and result-oriented
Strong attention to details and accuracy
What's in it for you
Close cooperation with client
Constant flow of new projects
Dynamic and challenging tasks
Projects from scratch
Team of professionals: learn from colleagues and gain recognition of your skills
European management style
Continuous self-improvement