FILLED | Senior Performance QA Engineer in Palo Alto

Our client is looking for an energetic Senior Performance QA Engineer to join our highly collaborative, experience engineering team.  You will have the opportunity to work closely with the development, data base, and IT teams to test and benchmark application performance and drive continuous improvement of the performance testing coverage. 

This position is full time and located in their HQ at Palo Alto, San Francisco Bay Area.

Responsibilities:

·         Design and implement performance measurement process

·   Work closely with the development, database, and IT teams to test and benchmark application performance and  drive toward continuous improvement of the performance testing coverage

·         Determine test needs, identify, plan and document tasks for performance test plans

·         Evaluate and select performance test tools

·         Build performance test environment and infrastructure

·         Design load, stress and scalability testing to deliver comprehensive performance testing reports

·         Identify, create and maintain the performance test data required to drive workloads

·         Design, develop and execute performance tests in the early software development cycle to find any performance roadblocks

Skills and Requirements:

·         7+ years of QA experience

·         5+ years of performance and load test experience

·     Understanding of performance test methodology, the SDLC, test environment and test data management

·         Proven ability to work under pressure and the ability to summarize and communicate metrics

·  Capable to analyze the test results, determine bottleneck and dependencies and provide recommendations

·         Proven work experience and proficiency on:

    Performance testing, performance analysis, and developing application benchmarks

    Performance engineering and load testing

    One and more performance tools either open-source or commercial for web based cloud application

    Testing multi-tiered web applications

    QA methodology and process

·         Some experience with a SaaS or other recurring revenue/service business model is a plus

If you meet all the requirements, please send an updated resume to us at the earliest.

You must be a US Resident/Citizen to be considered for this role.