Performance Tester - Dublin 7 - 450 per day

PERFORMANCE TEST ENGINEER - CONTRACT TOP RATES!

OVERVIEW OF ROLE:

We are seeking a Performance Test Engineer that is part developer - developing performance, stability, scalability, and reliability tests - and part tester - executing tests and doing root cause analysis. Our clients test platform is an enterprise .NET Web application.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES:

- Ensure quality for our customers by validating Performance, Stability, Scalability, and reliability in our solutions
- Discover thresholds and data impact
- Design and Develop automated Performance, Stability, Scalability, and Reliability tests
- Participate in the constant improvement of our Performance Test Automation practices
- Architect and develop your own tools to facilitate and enhance Performance Testing
- Debug, troubleshoot, and work with team members to find and fix software defects
- Testing at the System, Sub-System, and Component level
- Create reports that describe detected defects and possible causes
- Provide Performance and Scalability analysis and feedback on our Product
- Gain a technical and functional understanding of our product architecture and become part of the ongoing improvement of the performance of our enterprise application
- Communicate with product analyst in creating acceptance tests as part of the requirements, and execute those tests with whatever automation tools necessary
- Work proactively with members of an Agile team to find and fix defects in our product architecture
- Analyze defects/test results and be able to deduct the chain of events leading to a failure
- Write SQL code as part of data setup, in order to conduct performance tests

EXPERIENCE:

- Strong knowledge and experience of using JMeter in a commercial environment.
- Ability to take each performance issue analysis as far as possible, to the point of being able to suggest a fix
- Ability to recommend scope for performance tests and to interpret results.
- Min 3 years SQL experience and an ability to write intermediate to complex SQL code
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills
- Performance Testing of systems developed in.NET, C#, ASP.NET, SQL Server or Oracle is essential.
- Min 5 years experience with automated tools, performance profiling and stress testing tools essential
- Financial services business processes an advantage

IF YOU ARE HAPPY TO BE REPRESENTED AND BE PUT FORWARD FOR THIS ROLE (OR WOULD LIKE MORE INFORMATION) PLEASE SEND ME AN EMAIL BACK TO (SEE BELOW) OR CALL ME INDICATING IF YOU WISH TO BE REPRESENTED BY SOLAS CONSULTING GROUP.