Performance Test Engineer (Tricentis NeoLoad)

Mindware INC; Great Falls Crossing (VA); Remote; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Performance Test Engineer to implement Tricentis NeoLoad into their environment. The role involves creating and managing automated performance testing scripts, collaborating with teams to troubleshoot issues, and developing test plans. Candidates should have a strong background in performance testing and automation, with a Bachelor's degree in a technical field.

Qualifications

• 5 to 8 years of experience with Tricentis NeoLoad and LoadRunner.
• Ability to write scripts for automating test cases.

Responsibilities

• Define and develop performance test plans and automated scripts.
• Analyze test results and generate performance metric reports.
• Collaborate with development teams to troubleshoot performance issues.

Skills

Automation

Performance Testing

SQL

Agile

Education

Bachelor of Science

Tools

Tricentis NeoLoad

LoadRunner

Jira

Datadog

Job description

Performance Test Engineer (Tricentis NeoLoad)

Reston, VA

Performance Test Engineer (Tricentis NeoLoad)

Job Title: Performance Test Engineer (Tricentis NeoLoad)

Location: Primarily remote, may go onsite 1x per month (maybe). Would like EST candidates and within driving distance of Reston, VA.

Candidates Local to Washington DC, Virginia, Maryland only.

Job Type: Contract

VISA Type: ONLY US citizens, Green Card, H4 EAD, L2 VISA holders. NO H1Bs.

Job Description:

Seeking a Performance Test Engineer with extensive knowledge in both Tricentis NeoLoad and LoadRunner, in support of implementing Tricentis NeoLoad into our customers environment.

The selected candidate will be responsible for creating, maintaining, modifying, and managing automated performance testing scripts. S/he must be able to communicate effectively in collaboration with the systems and development teams to troubleshoot performance and scalability issues. The individual will be part of the Performance Testing team.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

- Define and develop performance test plans and automated scripts using industry standard testing tools. Executes performance test, analyze and evaluate test results; generate performance metric reports and provide recommendations.

- Assists with analyzing test and operational problems to determine presence and scope of potential code defects. Reports errors through a structured defect tracking process. Communicates weekly with management verbally and via written detail status report regarding potential problems and concerns.

- Review and analyze business & system requirements and specifications for performance testability.

- Acquire and maintain a working knowledge of testing tools. Expand business knowledge of product benefits, corporate policies, division and department goals and department procedures.

- Work with functional Tester and Development counterparts to ensure adequate coverage for upcoming releases and keep up-to data with system changes that impact performance testing.

- Assists and coordinates with customers, the research, analysis and proposed solutions to test discrepancies and test scenarios. Verify satisfaction of internal and external customer-s request and obtain information to create test data.

- Participates in project work group meetings (internal/external peer reviews, walk through, status meetings, PI Planning, etc.)

- Participates in system architecture change reviews and assessment of system capacity impacts. Benchmarks system performance.

Required Skills

- Bachelor of Science (BS) in a technical discipline (i.e., Computer Science, Engineering, Applied Science, etc.)

- 5 to 8 years of experience with Tricentis NeoLoad's functionality, technology, scripting capabilities, and features for designing and running load tests, including:

- Ability to write scripts to automate test cases and integrate NeoLoad into CI/CD pipelines

- Experience in migrating test scripts in LoadRunner to NeoLoad

- Experience in performance testing concepts and techniques, types of system performance tests and their goals

- Experience with the following performance testing toolsets: OpenText Performance Center / LoadRunner, Datadog

- Experience with at least 2 relational database management systems (e.g., DB2, Oracle, MongoDB)

- Experience with Jira

- Proven proficiency with: SQL and PL/SQL

- Strong understanding with system and application monitoring concepts

- Strong understanding of Server, Network, Virtualization and Database concepts.

- Strong understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Agile processes, quality assurance life cycle and testing methodologies

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Contract

Job function

• Job function

  Quality Assurance

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