Contractor

All European Careers BENELUX; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Zohorecruit is seeking a Senior Test Analyst for an Institutions project in the Netherlands with remote work and on-site travel. The role focuses on non-functional performance testing of GUIs and APIs, designing and executing JMeter tests in Docker/Kubernetes environments, and reporting outcomes.

Applicants should have 9+ years in QA, deep performance testing expertise, English fluency, and a valid work permit. This is a contractor role open for long-term engagements.

Qualifications

• +9 years of Software Quality Assurance experience as a Technical Test Analyst.
• +5 years in performance testing of web apps, web services, and databases.
• +1 year in Kubernetes environments.
• Ability to define performance goals with related tests based on product conditions.
• Strong knowledge of C# or Java in the context of performance testing.
• Experience with Apache JMeter for load testing and analysis.
• Familiarity with containerized environments (Kubernetes) and monitoring tools.
• Understanding of networking, load balancers, firewalls, and middleware.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute Performance/Load/Stress/Endurance/Capacity tests.
• Define performance goals, thresholds, and acceptance criteria with tests.
• Analyze test results and identify bottlenecks and improvements.
• Assist in test plans for non-functional quality characteristics (security, efficiency, reliability).
• Perform non-functional testing of ICT infrastructure and data migrations.
• Create large test data sets and manage test data for executions.
• Support operational acceptance testing and pilot activities.
• Identify, re-test, and report defects; present results.

Skills

Performance testing

Load testing

C# / Java

REST / HTTP / gRPC / SOAP

Test data management

Defect reporting

Tools

Apache JMeter

Docker

Kubernetes

OpenTracing

SQL / JDBC

Job description

Senior Test Analyst - Institutions - Netherlands - Remote - Contractor / Travel 1 week every 3 weeks

Amsterdam, Netherlands | Posted on 12/20/2023

For an Institution in The Netherlands, we are urgently looking for a Senior Test Analyst with +9 years of experience to support development/deployment of various projects by conducting thorough non‑functional performance testing of new /updated GUIs and APIs for relevant applications/services running in (Docker) containers. A significant part of the work consists of designing, executing and reporting of performance test scripts using JMeter following the DevOps “continuous testing principle”.

Candidates need to be willing to work 1 week per 3 weeks on‑site in The Netherlands. Candidates need to be fluent in English. A work permit is required.

EU Candidates need to be fluent in English.This position is also open for contractors, who would like to commit long‑term.

Tasks and responsabilities:

• Development and execution of Performance/Load Testing, Stress Testing, Endurance Testing, Capacity Testing;
  
• Definition of performance goals/thresholds/acceptance criteria with related tests;
  
• Analysis and reporting on performance test executions identifying performance bottlenecks and advising on improvements;
  
• Support in definition/definition of test plans regarding non‑functional quality characteristics (e.g. technical security, efficiency or reliability);
  
• Non‑functional testing of ICT infrastructure and data migration projects;
  
• Creation of large and complex test data sets (structured and unstructured data)and management of test data;
  
• Support to operational acceptance testing and piloting activities;
  
• Identification, re‑testing of and reporting on defects;
  
• Reporting of test results;
  

Profile

• +9 years of experience in the area of Software Quality Assurance in the role of Technical Test Analyst;
  
• +5 years of experience in performance testing of different kinds of systems (web apps, web services, middleware, databases), protocols and technologies (HTTP, REST, gRPC, SOAP, JDBC);
  
• +1 year of experience working in Kubernetes environments;
  
• Ability to define performance goals/thresholds/acceptance criteria with related tests, based on product conditions, standards and regulations;
  
• Good knowledge of C# or JAVA programming language or scripting languages (python, groovy) in the context of performance testing;
  
• developing and executing Performance/Load Testing, Stress Testing, Endurance Testing, Capacity Testing;
  
• Apache JMeter performance test tool for developing, executing and analysing load test scenarios;
  
• containerized environments (Kubernetes) including monitoring tools and Open Tracing;
  
• networking, load balancers, firewalls, middleware (like queuing systems) and database;