Performance Tester

Performance Tester

Experience: 7-10yrs

Skills: Loadrunner, Jmeter, Microsoft Dynamics d365 Technology (Azure Devops, CRM, AX)

Role and responsibility:

• Identifies performance test environment requirements and works with the infrastructure, network operations, environment and release teams to setup the environment for effective SLA measurements
• Works with the different project stakeholders to help define and document performance SLAs, requirements and expectations around critical factors such as response time, throughput, transactions/second, concurrent users, CPU utilization, memory, disk, network utilization, thread counts, connection pooling, hit ratios
• Learns the underlying architecture under the COTS products and Enterprise applications utilizing the blueprints and architectural diagrams available within the program
• Develops data driven test scripts and executes performance and load testing of the applications
• Designs and executes daily load tests large system level performance tests
• Collects, analyzes and reports performance testing results to the project, program and business stakeholders
• Reviews the performance test scripts created or modified by peers to ensure compliances with standards
• Collaborates with the test automation team to leverage reusability of existing scripts
• Creates knowledge management related deliverables such as tools related processes and procedures
• Be the performance test specialist

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  Initial Analysis and Presenting Strategy
  • Capture business goals, critical workflows, and expectations.
  • Align stakeholders on performance testing scope, goals, and deliverables.
• Requirements and Planning documents
  • Define performance metrics (like throughput, latency, error rates)
  • Identify:
    • Business-critical paths
    • Peak transaction rates
    • Processes for high business impact

• Environment Setup : Ensure the test environment mimics production like in terms of Hardware, Software & Configuration
• Script Development : Using JMeter, Record key business processes, Parameterize for real-world data, Correlate to handle session data and tokens
• Workload Simulation : Integrate JMeter with Azure Load Testing to Distribute load across regions, Simulate user behavior at scale & Execute stress, steady load, and spike tests
• Monitoring and Analysis
  • Real-time monitoring of: Resource consumption, Latency & Error rates
  • Collect metrics: Avg/max response times, Throughput & Resource utilization
  • Diagnose issues: Database locks, Memory leaks & Inefficient code paths
• Optimization (support developer) collaborate with dev teams to Fix performance bottlenecks, Re-run load tests after fixes & Validate improvements
• Reporting
  • Create detailed reports covering: Scenarios, Test environment, Load profiles & outcome
  • Present findings to stakeholders with focus on: System strengths & Areas requiring improvement

• Min 7 years Performance testing experience
• Requires Mobile App testing knowledge for both Hybrid and Native Apps
• Should have a basic knowledge on Six Sigma Methodology and statistics
• Experience in test automation and proficiency in creating automated unit, build and regression test suites
• Should have knowledge on analyzing the performance of mobile App
• Trouble shooting performance related technical issues and strategizing performance tests for large or distributed programs