Performance/Resilience Test Engineer

EUROPEAN DYNAMICS Group; Strasbourg; Remote; EUR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Full benefits package

Job summary

EUROPEAN DYNAMICS is seeking a Performance/Resilience Test Engineer fluent in English to work remotely within the EU. The candidate will join the Development team and closely cooperate with a major client's IT team on non-functional and performance testing across complex micro-services and cloud-like environments.

The role requires at least 6 years in non-functional testing, strong expertise in test planning, strategy, and data setup, and hands-on use of JMeter or Gatling.

Qualifications

• University degree in IT with at least 6 years in non-functional testing.
• Expertise in Test Planning, Estimation, Strategy, Workload Design, Test Case Design, Test Platform Setup, Test Data Setup and Defect Management.
• Hands-on knowledge on performance test tool JMeter or Gatling.
• Ability to present findings and recommendations to team members, management and customers.
• Experience in agile software development and testing methodologies.
• Experience with Chaos/Kraken for resilience testing will be considered a plus; Java automation experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Create and update the non-functional test plan for review to manager/leader.
• Plan, prepare, execute and analyse the non-functional testing activities as required.
• Develop a strategy for end-to-end non-functional testing of the solution.
• Develop the performance test script using the tools available for all identified performance and resilience testing scenarios; involve in preparation of test data.
• Execute non-functional tests including resilience, recovery, load, stress, endurance and capacity tests.
• Analyse resource usage during test execution to verify performance and identify bottlenecks.
• Review test results, identify non-functional issues and make recommendations.
• Enable other QA engineers and developers in running non-functional tests.
• Provide technical assistance to improve system performance, capacity, reliability and scalability.
• Develop standards and best practices for writing robust, maintainable and performant load testing scripts.
• Evaluate system performance and stability and recommend improvements.

Skills

Non-functional testing

Test planning

Test estimation

Test strategy

Workload design

Test cases design

Defect management

Agile testing

English communication

Education

University degree in IT

Tools

JMeter

Gatling

Chaos/Kraken

Java

Job description

We currently have a vacancy for a Performance/Resilience Test Engineer fluent in English, to offer his/her services as an expert remotely (within EU). In the context of the first assignment, the successful candidate will be integrated in the Development team of the company that will closely cooperate with a major client's IT team.

Tasks

• Create the non-functional test plan and update the test plan for review to manager/leader;
• Plan, prepare execute and analyse the non-functional testing activities as required;
• Develop a strategy for end-to-end non-functional testing of the solution;
• Develop the performance test script using the tools available for all the identified performance and resilience testing scenarios; involve in preparation of performance test data;
• Execute the various non-functional tests including resilience, recovery, load test, stress test, endurance test, capacity test;
• Analyse the resource usage during test execution to verify the performance of the applications and identify bottleneck problem in the application;
• Review test results captured during test execution, support the identification of non-functional issues and make recommendations;
• Enable other QA engineers and developers in running non-functional tests;
• Provide technical assistance to improve system performance, capacity, reliability and scalability;
• Develop standards and best practices for writing robust, maintainable, and performant load testing scripts;
• Evaluate system performances and stability and recommend improvements

Requirements

• University degree in IT combined with relevant professional experience of at least 6 years in non-functional testing and associated tooling;
• Expertise in Test Planning, Test Estimation, Test Strategy, Workload Design, Test Cases Design, Test Platform Setup, Test Data Setup and Defect Management;
• Good Hands-on knowledge on performance test tool JMeter or Gatling;
• Capacity in writing documents;
• Ability to present findings and recommendations to team members, management and customers;
• Experience in agile software development and testing methodologies;
• Experience using Chaos/Kraken for resilience testing will be considered a plus;
• Hands on Java experience from automation point of view will be considered a plus;
• Experience in complex setups including several integrated systems will be considered a plus;
• Experience in micro-services based private cloud hosted solution will be considered a plus;
• Excellent command of the English language

Benefits

We offer a competitive remuneration (either on contract basis or remuneration with full benefits package), based on qualifications and experience. All applications will be treated as confidential.

EUROPEAN DYNAMICS (www.eurodyn.com) is a leading Software, Information and Communication Technologies company, operating internationally (Athens, Brussels, Luxembourg, Copenhagen, Stockholm, London, Nicosia, Hong-Kong, Valetta, etc). The company employs over 1000 engineers, IT experts and consultants (around 3% PhD, 36% MSc and 53% BSc or equivalent). We design and develop software applications using state-of-the-art technology. The group generates annual revenues in the range of EURO 40 million, with an EBITDA in the range of 20%. The value of our contract portfolio exceeds EURO 300 million. EUROPEAN DYNAMICS is a renowned supplier of IT services to government institutions, multinational corporations, public administrations and multinational companies, research and academic institutes.

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