Information about the position:
The Senior Staff Performance Test Engineer will be part of the wider software QA team supporting the delivery of new products to our customers. Responsibilities are working closely with the product management to understand wider delivery priorities and ensure performance KPIs supporting these are developed to support performance test coverage. Being actively involved in ensuring our delivery quality meets the business and customer needs by developing, monitoring and maintaining automation scripts in our comprehensive performance testing framework.
WHAT YOU WILL DO:
To test and validate our product delivery quality across the entire platform of components, OPTs (Outdoor Payment Terminals) and other IoT devices, middleware, applications, and Cloud services.
Understand the requirement, creating performance test plan and make sure to automate performance testcases within sprint and release cycle. Completing performance regression testing on the areas in scope for testing by executing our automation frameworks and monitoring the results to ensure they reach both company and agreed industry approval standards with a focus on performance KPIs like response time; transaction latency, transaction throughputs, concurrent operations, multi-threading, system resource utilizations in terms of compute, memory, application memory space, optimizations with load, stress and scalability aspects etc.
Create performance automation frameworks for new micro-services. Maintaining our performance automation frameworks to ensure that they are operating and available for teams during delivery test cycles.
Where automation capability is not available conducting manual testing to validate the end-to-end flows.
To support release preparation and test exit reporting for acceptance decisions and audit / compliance purposes.
Responsibilities include:
1. Test development and execution
Create performance test strategy and test plans from analysis of business requirements, test estimates and development plans.
Develop the framework wherever needed. Design test scripts from analysis of requirements and message specifications to prove the developed solution complies with the project/business mandate in terms of performance, stress, scalability and load considerations. This includes defining test description, scenario and expected result and are used to record/report actual results.
Test hardware/software setup and verification environment. From time to time set up and testing may be required to be done off site (e.g certifying body)
Clarification of non-functional issues and product/solution requirements and ensure issues/risks escalated to appropriate parties.
Assist in developing standard documents, systems and procedures.
Ensure repeatable and measurable performance testing methodologies are adopted and applied.
Time management of testing workload to ensure delivery within timeframes assigned.
Information regarding upcoming deliverables gathered, documented and communicated as required.
Provide technical support to clients for installed systems - system integration and user acceptance phases.
2. Product testing
Perform application performance test activities required for delivery
Lab setup and maintenance, test application in lab
Application feature additions, tested and quality agreed
Perform customer specific customizations, test and document deltas
Product and EOL redesign testing and compliance confirmation
3. Quality assurance
Close coordination with other members of the Engineering, project and test team to ensure delivery of projects within time and
quality standards
Continually seek ways to improve and enhance the quality assurance process and the process of application development and
maintenance.
Ownership of module or micro-services for its quality and performance, scalability.
Make recommendations for process improvements where appropriate
Maintain an audit trail of modification history
Support acceptance/pilot testing
Maintaining and improving area of specialist knowledge, undertaking training where appropriate
4. Software development
Automate all aspects of non-functional testing of the product by completing the development of test software to test new functionality and modifications and enhancing test systems through automation.
Proactively maintain our non-functional test automation framework assets providing status reports to Test Leadership team on availability and state of the frameworks and any remediation activities under plan.
Train and mentor test engineers on the automation frameworks and the operation of these to grow the automation capability of
the test practice.
Ensure timelines are met.
Ensure any documentation is updated and submitted.
Ensure customer specific application solutions are in line with the customer and company requirements
Escalate issues in a timely manner
Assist with technical input to project management and work with Project Manager/s and Test Team Leader to monitor project
process.
Actively use and advocate use of Invenco processes.
Ensure solutions delivered to testing and support achieve the agreed quality standard
Maintain and improve area of specialist knowledge by keeping up to date with advances in industry and undergoing approved
training where appropriate.
5. Software documentation
Produce appropriate test plans, work instructions, reports and release documentation.
Verify delivered software documentation - user guides, app notes, specifications etc.
Document resolutions of issues.
Ensure standard issue tracking systems used
Ensure versions can be tracked and reverted as required
6. Software testing & Release
Validation automated and manual test plan coverage.
Co-ordination and communication around releases, including aggregation of software packages, verification and release.
12- 18 years of experience including creating performance, stress, scalability, load test frameworks and infrastructure
Tertiary qualification in computer science engineering/electronics
Understanding of the software development lifecycle
Testing of application and microservice technology
Testing of embedded firmware testing an advantage
Experience working with Agile development methodology
Able to demonstrate an example of testing maturity with regards to measurability and repeatability
Excellent communication skills both written and verbal
No restrictions to travel
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