Primary Skill

QA-Performance, Performance Center, Load Runner

Secondary Skill

Other Skills (Not Part of Standard Primary/Secondary Skills)

Domain Knowledge

Financial Services

Job Level Details

• Studying new or existing production systems and modeling production behavior in the performance environment.
• Environment configuration and management responsibilities for the Performance Environment, including troubleshooting environment issues and validating environment configurations.
• Analyzing results, identifying solutions that may improve application performance or system capacity.
• Recommending tuning opportunities and proving concepts.
• Documenting and presenting results to project stakeholders .
• Negotiating performance issues/solutions/results with internal WF teams.

Job Description

• Create, review, enhance and maintain performance test scripts using LoadRunner
• Execute load, performance, and infrastructure tests using LoadRunner to ensure all development deliverables are production ready.
• Be responsible for reporting results and defects and assisting in the resolution of existing defects.
• Train new team members on P&I testing and QA methodology
• Author Performance test plans, and may serve as a coordinator
• Multi-task between releases and prioritize task for next release.
• Troubleshoot and resolve Performance testing issues.
• May research production issues.
• Troubleshoot environment related issues and follow up with infrastructure teams through resolution
• Communicates with the US team members regarding testing/automation issues
• Perform performance testing tasks concurrently on multiple projects.
• Recommend enhancements and participate in driving initiatives within the QA group
• May act as technical resource to other testers.
• Additional responsibilities as directed by either the QA Lead or Management
• Proven problem-solving capabilities and ability to work independently.

Preferred Skills:

• Understanding of stubbing or simulating end points and when to use.
• Experience working/configuring SAML, F5, Sun-One webservers
• Experience with testing both GUI and webservices.
• Strong Unix & Linux skills, ability to write shell scripts for information gathering purposes.
• Sound understanding of Java/JVM architecture, JVM tuning, GC, Class loading, Thread Dump Analysis, JMX based JVM monitoring (JConsole)
• Java hands-on programming (or some other language) for custom test data synthesis/manipulation
• Weblogic tuning & console monitoring of various server resources like DB connection pools, Threads, JMS queues/topics/modules/factories etc..
• Good familiarity of queuing principles of Websphere MQ
• Good understanding of Oracle Architecture. SQL, PL/SQL, Performance Stats, SQL tuning, Explain plan, Tracing tools, Hints, Fragmentation, Partitions, familiarity with at least one Oracle tool like TOAD
• Good understanding of Oracle Replication technologies – Streams, RAC
• Conceptual understanding of Oracle backups – Export, Data Pump, RMAN
• Familiarity with information security
• encryptions, SSL/ TSL etc.
• Good understanding of Load Balancers like F5 – LB methods, Virtual servers, Virtual Pools, Rules, Connection & Cookie persistence.
• Familiarity of storage systems & principles
• Logical Drives & Volumes, SAN, NAS, RAID - striping, mirroring, parity

Wells Fargo - 11 months ago