Automation and Performance Test Lead

POSITION: AUTOMATION AND PERFORMANCE TEST LEAD

DURATION: 3-6 months

LOCATION: Milan Italy

JOB DESCRIPTION: Must be able to speak Italian language

AUTOMATION:

- Understand customer requirements at system level and Define and deliver Test automation requirements at System level.
- Provide Test automation estimates, Overall Test automation strategy, Automation tool selection and Automation solution architecture.
- Hands on Automation tool design and coding
- Preparation and articulation of technical issues/status during client interactions
- Understanding & following clients testing process/automation life cycle
- Contribution to effectively review the test deliverables from the team
- Mentoring and technically guiding team members
- Suggest and participate in activities to enhance team productivity - technical presentations, helping the team during difficult situations, identifying the pain areas in project & providing proactive solutions
- Exploring new tools/new ideas useful for the project
- Contributions towards the complete project through effective review, resolving problems
- Adherence to Test automation process in the program (Test automation Plan/design preparation, Test Execution, Fault reports, reviews, test audits, logging of

PERFORMANCE:

- Devise End-to-End Performance Test Strategy after understanding the Application and Technology landscape.
- Detailed Performance Test Planning and tracking.
- Analysis of Production logs and net tracker for deriving the best performance model.
- Working experience in minimum 4 protocols of LoadRunner.
- Experience in 2 more tools like JMeter, Neoload, SilkPerformer, VSTS.
- Planning the execution cycles with appropriate backup/restore strategies.
- Monitoring at all tiers of application Web, Application and Database tier minimum.
- Diagnosing monitor at 4 levels viz Infrastructure, OS platform, Server platform and Application.
- Application profiling expertise either on JVM (or) CLR including stack trace, memory management, CPU cycles, thread of execution.
- Preparing detailed performance test report with level-1, level-2 and level-3 observations (on transaction counters, server hardware performance counters, Mid tier and database performance statistics)