Senior Performance Test Engineer

Job title: Senior Performance Test Engineer
Estimted Duration: 5 months
Location: Toronto, ON (2x a week on site) 
Job Details:

·      Authors Performance strategy and test plans

·      Define Non- functional Strategy

·      Define, develop and achieve performance/scalability benchmarks

·      Design, develop, and execute performance test cases and scripts through analysis of product specifications and software requirements

·      Performs integrations, stress, load, regression and performance testing to validate production readiness of software applications and infrastructure for stability and performance

·      Design POCs to suggest new tools to improve existing performance suites

·      Monitor and track the automation for effectiveness

·      Perform automated load/performance testing across multiple messaging protocols (including HTTP), focusing on overall application performance – validating that application response and outputs accurately reflect business requirements

·      Drive performance / load test operations towards a CI pipeline model to support continuous performance improvements in the solution

·      Real-Time Performance Testing: Experience with testing real-time data processing systems, ensuring minimal latency, high throughput, and stability under peak loads.

·      Resilience & Fault Tolerance Testing: Simulating network failures, server crashes, and other disruptions to assess how the system recovers and handles failures.

·      Observability & Monitoring: Experience with real-time monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or Splunk to track performance metrics and system health.

·      Performance in Distributed Systems: Assessing how performance scales in a distributed/cloud-native environment and ensuring optimal resource utilization.

·      Tracks and communicates task progress, status, and key performance metrics

·      Report defects found in testing diligently, promptly, and accurately, using standard defect tracking tools

·      Pinpointing bottlenecks, and collaborating with relevant teams to enhance system performance.

·      Communicate effectively across multiple teams/external vendors (Operations, Project Teams, Quality Service, ), different personnel (Developers, Scrum Masters, Project Managers, ) when required

·      Hands-on experience within API REST/SOAP testing and experience using related tools, Postman, ReadyAPI etc along with understanding of the UI applications.

·      Expected to maintain technical expertise via self-education in areas governing computer sciences, performance/load testing dictums, and Quality Assurance

Must Haves:

·        5+ years’ experience with scripting tools such as python, and shell scripting

·        5+ years’ experience with Cloud Performance Testing: Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and their performance testing methodologies, including auto-scaling and load balancing

·        5+ years’ experience with performance test simulations or 5+ years’ experience in performance analysis

·        3+ years’ experience with load testing, development; specifically with Jmeter
Skills:

·      Extensive experience with Performance testing and automation tools such as JMeters, LoadRunner, Cloudtest, Selenium, Appium or similar

·      Proficiency with scripting tools such as python, and shell scripting

·      Code knowledge PHP,HTML,CSS,AutoIt,XML,JSON,Javascript, Log4net

·      Experience with Real-Time Data Technologies: Kafka, RabbitMQ, or other event-driven architectures.

·      Cloud Performance Testing: Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and their performance testing methodologies, including auto-scaling and load balancing strategies.

·      Low Latency Optimization: Experience optimizing applications for low-latency scenarios, including techniques like caching, message queuing, and network optimizations.

·      Experience developing your own testing tools to facilitate performance testing is a major plus

·      Ability to work as part of a self-directed Agile team

·      Provide support and mentoring to distributed project teams on performance activities

·      Strong data analysis and post processing skills to validate system performance

• Extensive hands on experience with manual and automated Performance testing
• Hands on experience on installation, setup and configuration the system to get going

·      Demonstrated competency with various tools, including Defect Management Tools, Test Management and Planning Tools

·      3-4 years experience in software application development or test automation (some experience may be in an academic environment)

·      Should have knowledge about authentication (Basic, Digest, Form-Based, Bearer Tokens, JWT Tokens, MFA) implementation in load testing tools

Education

·        Completion of a university degree or college diploma, preferably in computer science/engineering, information technology, business administration, or a related discipline, or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience