Senior IT System Test Engineer

OUR DIRECT CLIENT, A FORTUNE-500 COMPANY, HAS A 6-MONTH CONTRACT POSITION (EXTENSIONS LIKELY) IN MAYFIELD VILLAGE, OH FOR A SENIOR IT SYSTEMS TEST ENGINEER (OR SENIOR-LEVEL PROGRAMMER) WITH APPLICATION PERFORMANCE-ENGINEERING EXPERIENCE AND BACKGROUND.

THE IDEAL CANDIDATE WILL HAVE THE FOLLOWING EXPERIENCE:

1 - Work with architects, developers, business teams, and business analysts to design valid tests, make performance recommendations, create and execute load/performance tests, and validate test results
2 - Participates in design reviews, code reviews, requirements and test review discussions
3 - Responsible for Scripting, data analysis, and debugging of data to ensure performance testing is set up and executed appropriately
4 - Interact with the project stakeholders to gather preliminary data necessary to build load tests such as workload assumptions (eg expected peak user volume metrics), desired response time criteria (ie SLAs), transactional data setup, master data setup, and data preparation using SQLs
5 - Deliver effective and efficient testing solutions by meeting key project milestones and overall project deliverables on time, and adhering to System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Project Management Life Cycle (PMLC) Methodologies
6 - Use HP Loadrunner to schedule and run as many variations as needed of load tests of the target application, varying parameters such as the number of users, the speed of ramp up/ramp down of users, and simulated user think-time and pacing
7 - Conduct performance testing and monitor all performance metrics
8 - Set up performance monitors and diagnose issues
9 - Coordinate test windows and secure technical support for monitoring the infrastructure and to quality observations
10 - Generate and review the performance test results with the technology team
11 - Analyze performance metrics results and write final.go/no go* report
12 - Interpret and summarize performance test metrics, including the ability to create and present result reports for various audiences
13 - Evaluate overall system capacity during end-to-end load tests
14 - Provide insight into performance bottlenecks leveraging a variety of skills and tool sets on multiple platforms 15 - Access web Servers, application Servers, and database Servers to set up performance tests and diagnose issues
16 - Designs and constructs software systems of low to medium complexity (eg test automation fixtures, responders) that assist testers with testing activities. Constructs, maintains, and supports test harnesses, test data generators, and analysis tools.
17 - Functions in the test lead role for small to medium complexity efforts. Develops Test Strategy for small to medium complexity testing efforts by investigating the context of a testing effort. Defines the Test Plan by identifying the scope and type of work necessary for small to medium testing efforts. Establishes readiness, specifies skill needs, negotiates risk, provides estimates and plans work for testing efforts.

We will call qualified candidates after review. Resumes will NOT be sent to clients without your approval. REFERRALS WANTED - $1000 REWARD! Refer a colleague to us, and Precision will pay you $1000 if we find a job for that person!

Overtime: straight time

- 3+ years in Performance Testing (load, stress, endurance, peak, spike, scalability, failover, network, baseline, benchmark)
- Loadrunner experience
- 3+ years in a full end-to-end performance cycle (Design tune- reports)
- 3+ Designing, Scripting/Executing Performance Tests (Analyze Non Functional, Collect Metrics, Develop and Execute Test, Analyze Results, Diagnose and Tune)
- 3+ years with multi-tier application and technology using .net, HTML, CSS and JavaScript, SQL from a performance engineering perspective
- 3+ years with c, c#, or other programming language
- Excellent written/oral communication skills
- Ability to multi-task in a fast paced environment
- Strong problem solving/troubleshooting and analytical skills