QA CoE Lead Performance Engineer

Conscientia Corp; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Conscientia Corp in Plano, Texas is seeking a leader for their outsourced performance testing teams across multiple projects. The role involves strategic oversight and hands-on governance in performance testing, ensuring quality across various delivery channels.

The ideal candidate will have over 10 years of experience in performance testing, familiarity with tools like HP Performance Center, and excellent communication skills. This role also includes mentoring junior team members and optimizing business application performance.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in performance testing and engineering.
• Hands-on experience in performance testing methodologies and tools.
• Ability to analyze performance test results.

Responsibilities

• Lead governance oversight for outsourced performance testing teams.
• Facilitate performance defect triage and analysis.
• Mentor junior QA team members.

Skills

Performance testing and engineering

HP Performance Center

Load test script creation

APM and monitoring tools

Web services

Communication skills

Analytical skills

Tools

Oracle

MS SQL

VuGen

HP Diagnostics

Job description

This role provides hands‑on leadership and governance oversight for outsourced performance testing teams working across multiple delivery channels on concurrent projects. Candidate is expected to provide input for the long‑term strategy and roadmap for the Performance Testing CoE and work with internal support teams to drive optimization of key business applications.

Responsibilities

• Participates in the review of existing process, techniques, test methodologies, design, approach, and strategy for continuous improvement
• Participates in the assessment of new performance test tools to determine fit in the environment
• Creates, monitors, and tracks software QA metrics specific to performance testing
• Writes, revises, verifies, and enforces performance testing standards
• Facilitates performance defect triage, analyzing performance metrics and logs to determine the root cause of issues
• Determines when performance testing is mandatory by performing project artifact reviews and through discussions with the project teams
• Collaborates with project managers to develop schedules and resource allocation models for performance test engagements
• Communicates performance test results in terms that can be easily understood and actioned by the business or project teams
• Provides support for performance testing activities for large projects, small enhancements, and infrastructure upgrades
• Provides input to performance testing contracts and estimates based on fixed cost outsourcing model
• Reviews testing deliverables including the performance test plan, test scripts, test scenarios, test results, and final reports produced by suppliers for quality and adherence to QA standards
• Mentors, coaches, and monitors junior QA team members

Qualifications

SKILLS REQUIRED:

• 10+ years’ experience in performance testing and engineering
• Hands‑on ability to plan, script, and execute performance tests based on requirements
• Hands‑on ability to interpret and analyze performance test results
• Hands‑on experience with APM and monitoring tools; ability to identify performance issues or bottlenecks and provide recommendations to tune systems for optimal performance
• Must possess a strong knowledge of enterprise application architecture and technologies including web, web services, databases, middleware and messaging
• Expert level experience with HP Performance Center, VuGen, LR Analysis, and HP Diagnostics or other APM tools
• Experience performance testing of UI based applications, web services, middleware, and batch processes
• Expertise of monitoring solutions and KPI’s used to determine when there are performance issues or concerns across technology stacks
• Must be able to create and validate load test scripts in at least three of the following protocols: HTTP, SOAP / web services, TruClient, ODBC, RTE, Visual Basic, .NET, Java
• Must be able to perform in‑depth analysis of load tests both in real‑time during test execution and post run to determine test validity, discover the root‑cause of any errors or failures, and report on any performance issues or defects
• Must demonstrate or possess strong experience in:
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Reviewing test artifacts and deliverables to provide feedback and direction
  • Assessing risk to schedule, cost, or quality on projects and testing engagements
  • Preparing and facilitating the implementation of test plans
  • Ability to react to changing project plans and come up with creative alternatives
  • Organizational and planning skills
  • Analytical skills
  • Ability to work in a collaborative team‑oriented environment

Additional Information

SKILLS DESIRED:

• Experience with performance testing and monitoring tools outside of HP products
• Should possess an understanding of software development and implementation methodologies including both waterfall and Agile
• Development / code review / code profiling / performance engineering background
• DevOps / continuous integration experience
• Hands‑on experience in the following technologies:
  • Database: Oracle, MS SQL