- Contract period: For 24 Months with further period up to 12 months
- Number of extensions: 3
- Location: ACT
- Security: Must have Negative Vetting Level 1
About the Role:
SoftLabs is seeking Load and Capacity Testers for ICT Labour hire at their technology consulting based in ACT.
Testing Services Requirements:
The following highlevel types of testing and activities will be required.
- Performance Stress and Volume Test planning and execution
- Stress and Volume Test execution
- Soak Test execution
- Develop and present Test Summary Reports
- Support Performance Tuning activities
- Support development of inhouse testing capability
- Support remediation activities requiring test
- Performance validation of new systems and/or major changes to systems; and
- Contribute to system design to proactively optimise system performance
Typical Systems to be tested
The below list illustrates the multiple systems required to be tested prior to an event to provide a context of the wide volumes targets and nature of systems to be tested.
System Designation
| Typical Test Volume and type
| Comment
|
B1
| >4000 registrations/votes per hour
| Webbased application
|
E1
| >50000 calls per hour
|
|
E2
| >750000 votes marked off per hour
| Distributed PC system
|
D1
| >500 logins 5000 views 130 updates per hour
| Webbased application
|
O1
| >100000 application submission per hour
| Webform with submissions
|
O2
| >65000 checks per hour
| Webform with submissions
|
O3
| >290000 applications per hour
| Webform with submissions
|
E3
| >10000 vote count submissions per hour
| Midrange system
|
E4
| >4000 saves per hour
| Midrange system
|
E5
| >9000 vote counts per hour
| Midrange system
|
T1
| >11 million web page views in 16 mins
| Pure static website.
|
P1/W1
| >700 000 web page views per hour
| Multiple systems to be tested concurrently
|
AP1/AE1/T1
| >100000 acceptance per hour.
>23000 outbound emails delivered per hour.
>4000 course completions per hour.
| Multiple systems to be tested concurrently with results workflowing from one system to the next. Emails need to be captured and analysable. Volumes maybe 600K emails generated.
|
W2
| >views per hour
| Website
|
Requirements/ Capacity:
- Able to write customs scripts to integrate with a range of AEC systems including those listed in Typical Systems to be tested above.
- The respondent will test using a load testing tool including the ability to supply more than 15000 users concurrently to stress test AEC systems.
- Generate test data sets for testing appropriate to the system.
- Test systems both inside and outside of the AEC s normal business hours so not to impact business users and infrastructure.
- Perform multiple cycles and iterations of testing.
- Integration Tested.
- Perform business process recovery and virtual tally room testing.
- Perform knowledge transfer of the testing processes involved such as supplying video overview and documentation for each of the tests as needed.
- Provide guidance on system target benchmarks and throughput.
- Attend regular meetings with project management teams stakeholders technical resources.
- Track audit log and report the inputs and outputs to each of the system being tested.
Capability:
- Has experience and can provide scripts which will need to connect to thick client systems using either Application Programming Interface (API) or User Interface (UI) based protocols depending on the nature of the system being tested.
- Has a wide range of testing capabilities connecting to webbased applications where scripts will have to handle either HTTP (Protocolbased) or Browser based scripting.
- Has the ability to conduct load and capacity tests of both standalone systems and integrated systems where there is workflow linking multiple systems.
- Has the ability to receive track log and analyse an external email inbox capable of handling upto 600000 emails in a 24 hour period.
- Demonstrated ability to analyse test results and produce test report after each system has been tested.
Application Deadline: Monday 06 May 2024
Expected Start Date: Monday 10 June 2024
Job Type: Contract
Rate: As per Australian Market Standards
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1. Has experience and can provide scripts which will need to connect to thick client systems using either Application Programming Interface (API) or User Interface (UI) based protocols, depending on the nature of the system being tested. 2. Has a wide range of testing capabilities connecting to web-based applications, where scripts will have to handle either HTTP (Protocol-based), or Browser based scripting. 3. Has the ability to conduct load and capacity tests of both standalone systems and integrated systems where there is workflow linking multiple systems. 4. Has the ability to receive, track, log and analyse an external email inbox capable of handling upto 600,000 emails in a 24 hour period.