Scorecard (Expectations)

• First and foremost, you see yourself as a Quality Assurance Professional. You understand the value of methodology, documentation, test strategy, analysis and clear communication.
• You will join our Quality Assurance Team and will be reporting to the QA Manager
• You will primarily focus on Web Application Load and Performance Testing
• You will work collaboratively with other members of the QA team and overall engineering organization

Mission for QA Automation Engineer

• Solid understanding of Load and Performance Testing fundamentals and adapt in entire performance testing life cycle, from requirement gathering to reporting stage
• Experience using some relevant industry standard tools
• You will mentor other QA team members, as needed, to help them contribute to the load and performance testing work

Experience

• 2 to 5 years of relevant experience in Web Application Load Testing
• Demonstrated track record of delivering results while taking ownership and working independently when needed, or collaboratively as the scenario demands

Skills and Qualification

• Bachelor’s /Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or similar field
• Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools and processes
• Knowledge of Performance Testing Processes and Strategies
• Excellent Analytical skills
• Detailed knowledge of application functions, bug fixing, and testing protocols
• Critical thinker and problem-solving skills
• Good Team player
• Good time-management skills
• Great interpersonal and communication skills

Good to have

• Expertise with multiple industry standard load and performance testing tools such as Jmeter, HP Load Runner, Blazemeter. w.r.t Scripting, Test execution, Report Generation and Analysis
• Strong hands on experience with relevant APM tools like Application Insights, App Dynamics, DynaTrace etc
• Ability to develop scripts independently or with minimal guidance and execute them
• Able to do bottleneck analysis when facing performance issues with the tools available
• Working knowledge of Agile Project (and Test) Management Tool (TestRail, JIRA etc)
• Proven knowledge of Testing manual/functional testing processes, methodology, defect life cycle
• Experience in UI automation (Selenium) and REST/Soap Webservices with knowledge in API documentation such as swagger is a plus
• Good knowledge on Databases queries to create performance data in different types of databases such as SQL Server, Oracle etc
• Ability to work on multiple assignments simultaneously and produce high quality reports/results/recommendations