Performance Test Lead - Senior Associate - Operate

At PwC, our people in software and product innovation focus on developing cutting-edge software solutions and driving product innovation to meet the evolving needs of clients. These individuals combine technical experience with creative thinking to deliver innovative software products and solutions. In testing and quality assurance at PwC, you will focus on the process of evaluating a system or software application to identify any defects, errors, or gaps in its functionality. Working in this area, you will execute various test cases and scenarios to validate that the system meets the specified requirements and performs as expected.

Enhancing your leadership style, you motivate, develop and inspire others to deliver quality. You are responsible for coaching, leveraging team member’s unique strengths, and managing performance to deliver on client expectations. With your growing knowledge of how business works, you play an important role in identifying opportunities that contribute to the success of our Firm. You are expected to lead with integrity and authenticity, articulating our purpose and values in a meaningful way. You embrace technology and innovation to enhance your delivery and encourage others to do the same.

Skills

Examples of the skills, knowledge, and experiences you need to lead and deliver value at this level include but are not limited to:

• Analyse and identify the linkages and interactions between the component parts of an entire system.
• Take ownership of projects, ensuring their successful planning, budgeting, execution, and completion.
• Partner with team leadership to ensure collective ownership of quality, timelines, and deliverables.
• Develop skills outside your comfort zone, and encourage others to do the same.
• Effectively mentor others.
• Use the review of work as an opportunity to deepen the expertise of team members.
• Address conflicts or issues, engaging in difficult conversations with clients, team members and other stakeholders, escalating where appropriate.
• Uphold and reinforce professional and technical standards (e.g. refer to specific PwC tax and audit guidance), the Firm's code of conduct, and independence requirements.
  
  

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).