Performance Tester - Daily Rate

Performance Tester - Dublin City Centre - Circa €400 per day (6 months+)

RESPONSIBILITIES

- Responsible for planning and execution of Performance test cases, scenario building, execution and analysis.
- Working with software developers, system engineers and DBA's to identify and resolve bottle-necks and optimize system.
- Adherence to all QA processes and procedures
- Work with outsourced QA partners as part of a global test team
- Aid in the setup and maintenance of test environment hardware and software to support the requirements.
- Assist with training and support of other internal/external test team members.
- Provide performance test expertise to the development team and offshore partner
- Work with project bug database and database workflows.
- Produce Performance Test Engineering Reports
- Some functional testing of application will be required

QUALIFICATIONS

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, or four year degree, or equivalent
- experience
- A minimum of three years Performance Testing experience.
- Extensive performance test tool experience required (HP LoadRunner, Borland SilkPerformer, Rational/IBM, Radview, OpenSTA, JMeter etc.).
- Requires thorough knowledge of testing methods and the software development life cycle
- Must be highly process orientated
- Requires excellent familiarity with Windows, Solaris and Linux Operating Systems and hardware
- Requires familiarity with generic Test management systems and defect tracking databases.
- Requires good problem-solving and analytic skills
- Requires ability to work with minimal guidance
- Previous experience working on large scale .Net/J2EE development projects required
- Requires strong organizational, communication, and administrative skills.
- Excellent interpersonal and written/verbal communications skills
- Pro-active, self motivated, results oriented
- Experience working on Learning/Educational Management Systems development desirable
- Experience working with outsourced development and QA desirable
- Must be a team player
- HP LoadRunner CPC desirable.
- ISEB/ISTQB Certification desirable