Senior QA Tester with Automation and Performance Testing

SUMMARY:

Accountable for the design, strategy and execution of automated testing and performance on the next generation web applications and Web Services

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

- Responsible for automated testing with successful design, automation, and execution of Selenium based testing framework.
- Responsible for creating and maintaining automation test plans and Scripting of automation scenarios.
- Responsible for Performance testing with successful design, automation, and execution of LoadRunner and web Performance testing tool.
- Responsible for performance analysis and capacity planning.
- Responsible for working with development and Infrastructure teams to identify root cause of breakdowns and maintain system performance.
- Responsible for defect reporting, defect verification and metrics collection/analysis.
- Responsible to conduct usage analysis studies of systems, analysing data and mapping for future growth
- Responsible to test all new hardware, configurations and applications before release to production systems

EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE:

REQUIRED

- At least 8 year of experience in a senior QA testing role in testing Web architectures.
- At least 3 year of experience in a senior testing role using Selenium framework based automated testing.
- At least 5 year of experience in a senior testing role using LoadRunner and web Performance testing tool.
- Experience with load model analysis and load model creation for load test scenarios from available historical/analytical data.
- Experience in designing load models for meeting the future needs of applications from existing load models.
- Experience in Scripting of virtual user scripts in LoadRunner and web performance tester.
- Technical skills must include Automation Scripting, T-SQL, PL/SQL and XML grammars & parsing
- Candidates should have excellent oral and written communication skills
- Undergraduate degree in computer science or related area of study. Graduate degree in similar discipline is preferred