Senior Performance Test Engineer : Elekta
- Company
- Manor Royal Business District
- Location
- Crawley, West Sussex
- Salary
- Competitive
- Posted
- 31 Jan 2021
- Closes
- 28 Feb 2021
- Ref
- R2021-0174
- Sector
- Healthcare, Technology
- Function
- Engineer
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Description –
As a Performance Test Engineer, you will play a key role in an activity that will, from a quality assurance view, support delivery of a new and exciting platform used to improve healthcare worldwide. You should possess a self-starter and can-do attitude, and have the desire to deliver high performant, exciting software products. The aim is to play a key role in delivering a high quality, world-class software platform.
Responsibilities –
- Investigate and document all performance requirements, including non-functional requirements and environment, tool and test data needs.
- Select and implement a performance testing tool
- Work with architecture, product owners, and development teams to ensure a thorough understanding of the applications under test
- Build out all system and component level performance tests.
- Build re-usable performance test capabilities.
- Advise on and build solutions for all performance testing needs (example: Performance, Stress, Soak etc)
- Develop tests aligned with tight timelines
- Execute performance tests
- Create reports based on performance test executions designed for stakeholders at all levels
- Work with development teams to integrate performance tests with the CI/CD pipelines
Relevant Knowledge, skills and competencies -
- 10+ years’ experience in Performance Testing
- Expertise in all aspects of performance testing
- Demonstrable experience delivering performance test solutions with tools such as LoadRunner
- Able to pick up new tools and techniques quickly
- You are confident & proud of the scripts you write
- Excellent communication (written and oral)
- Skilful using latest Microsoft Office Applications
- Some software development and automated test experience
- Working knowledge of GIT
- Experience performance testing a micro-service-based architecture
- Able to understand the difference between client-side and Server-Side performance
- Experience with Message queue technologies, Kafka or RabbitMQ
- Proven experience coaching development teams and delivering successful software programs toward performance quality
- Experience investigating and gathering performance requirements
Desirable:
•Experience with Docker & Kubernetes, Azure
Additional local information - Work environment: Open plan office based in Crawley working with disparate teams in Europe, US and China