Performance tester Automation Developer

Role: Performance tester / Automation Developer
Structure: 6 month contract 3 days a week onsite Downtown Toronto
Rates:

Typical day in the role:

• Develop an overall business case for a platform level Performance Test Program
• Define Non- functional/ Performance Test Strategy at a Program level
• Authors Performance strategy and test plans
• 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 (K6) 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

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 PHPHTMLCSSAutoItXMLJSONJavascript Log4net
• Experience with Real-Time Data Technologies: Kafka RabbitMQ or other event-driven architectures.
• Cloud Performance Testing: Experience using 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

Experience

• 5 years of experience leading and developing Performance programs test processes methodologies approaches and tools or equivalent development performance experience
• 5 years of experience with performance test simulations and performance analysis performance monitoring in a n-tier environment
• 3 years experience Strong load testing development and specifically J/Meter skills and experience
• 5 years of experience with Agile methodologies
• 5 years experience working with cloud technologies like Azure

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