Performance Test Lead - Senior Associate - Operate

A career in our Managed Services team will provide you an opportunity to collaborate with a wide array of teams to help our clients implement and operate new capabilities, achieve operational efficiencies, and harness the power of technology. Our Testing as a Service team will provide you with the opportunity to help organizations and our PwC implementation and managed services teams delivery testing solutions and testing excellence through automated testing. We execute client centric test scripts and scenarios that are linked to specific detailed user personas and user stories to drive tailored results for our clients . Through our testing managed services we focus on maximizing testing execution with transparency of outcomes with the goal of minimizing go-live risk and post go-live issues. As part of our testing as a service offering we work across a variety of enterprise level technology platforms and solutions such as Oracle, Workday, SAP, Salesforce, Microsoft, Servicenow and more.

To really stand out and make us fit for the future in a constantly changing world, each and every one of us at PwC needs to be a purpose-led and values-driven leader at every level. To help us achieve this we have the PwC Professional; our global leadership development framework. It gives us a single set of expectations across our lines, geographies and career paths, and provides transparency on the skills we need as individuals to be successful and progress in our careers, now and in the future.

Responsibilities

As a Senior Associate, you'll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution. PwC Professional skills and responsibilities for this management level include but are not limited to:

• Use feedback and reflection to develop self awareness, personal strengths and address development areas.
• Delegate to others to provide stretch opportunities, coaching them to deliver results.
• Demonstrate critical thinking and the ability to bring order to unstructured problems.
• Use a broad range of tools and techniques to extract insights from current industry or sector trends.
• Review your work and that of others for quality, accuracy and relevance.
• Know how and when to use tools available for a given situation and can explain the reasons for this choice.
• Seek and embrace opportunities which give exposure to different situations, environments and perspectives.
• Use straightforward communication, in a structured way, when influencing and connecting with others.
• Able to read situations and modify behavior to build quality relationships.
• Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct.
  
  

Performance Test Lead_SA

As a Performance Test Lead, you will lead the Automation Testing of solutions for client transformation programmes. This will involve:

• Create performance test plans, test scenarios, test scripts, test execution, results analysis and provide insight into potential performance issues and deliverables related to performance testing activities.
• Provide updates on testing progress, lead a team of Performance Engineers to clearly define test plans, tasks, schedule, and execution of performance testing activities, and identify - performance issues prior to - reaching production.
• Partner with development teams to understand application changes and potential performance concerns and issues when creating test scenarios.
• Communicate and help remediate performance issues observed during testing.
• Work with other members in the IT organization to understand and achieve objectives.
• Integrate performance tests in CI/CD pipeline and establish a continuous build and test cycle
• Develop high-quality performance test engineering principles, test strategies, and best practices
• Provide input and direction on continuous process and procedure improvements to mitigate risk and enhance performance engineering processes and standards.
• Lead, mentor and coach QA staff on testing best practices and efforts.
  
  

Qualifications

• 5+ years of Performance Engineering experience required.
• Hands on experience with Performance Testing tool(i.e. Loadrunner, Neoload)
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills.
• Ability to interpret test results and identify potential performance issues
• Architectural background focused on mid-tier services, client front ends and databases.
• Proficient in understanding the testing activities and approaches in the different development methodologies (Agile, Iterative and Waterfall).