Software Quality Assurance Engineer at Issaquah

CodeSmart Inc. is in search of Software Performance Designer for a client on the Eastside. The Software Performance Designer is responsible for planning and executing performance testing for assigned projects. They must work closely with the project and business stakeholders to establish the correct performance metrics and benchmarks for the systems under test. They are responsible for building and/or contributing on performance test plans for projects and working with the project team to level set expectations, priorities, and deliverables. They must work closely with the Performance Test Leads and Manager to ensure their work is consistent with the methodologies and coverage thresholds for the team. Collects business transactions and creates reliable, reusable, and efficient performance test scripts. Must be able to identify, present, and speak to performance metrics and results.

This is an opportunity to gain a full time position with a Fortune 22 company. If you think you are up to the job please email a cover letter along with your resume to: Jobs-at-codesmartinc.com.

Tasks and responsibilities

• Collaborates with resources across IT in order to define and create test objectives, test environments, and test data requirements.
• Gathers business volumetrics and assembles workload and transaction information for performance testing.
• Designs, creates, and maintains the performance test scripts and scenarios that meet the objectives identified in the performance test plan.
• Assists with the identification and/or creation of performance test data required to drive workloads.
• Executes the daily performance test activities during the execution phase.
• Collects, documents, and analyzes resulting performance metrics from the automated test tools and backend systems that are in-scope for the project.
• Responsible for defect entry, driving defects to completion, and retesting code changes.

Required skills, abilities, and certifications

• Minimum of seven (7+) years of progressive, hands-on software quality assurance experience.
• Minimum of four (4+) years of hands-on, progressive experience in performance testing.
• Minimum of two (2+) years of programming in an object-oriented programming language.
• Demonstrable experience in C/C++ is required.
• Experience with HP LoadRunner is required.
• Strong understanding of performance test methodologies and strategies is required.
• Proficiency with SQL is required.
• Skilled in translating the development and testing requirements within the project into performance test scripts and scenarios.
• Able to create, maintain, and execute scripts using multiple protocols and able to quickly learn new protocols.
• Expert level skills in performance test tool utilization, including scripting, building and executing scenarios, collecting and analyzing performance metrics.
• Able to customize automated test scripts through the use of programming languages.
• Skills and experience required to directly interface with subject matter experts and technical groups (architects, system designers, operations, etc.) to resolve problems encountered during performance testing.
• Proficient in the creation of complex documents that communicate technical concepts in a clear, concise, and complete manner to the clients business community and stakeholders.
• Willing to take ownership of all assigned tasks.
• Innovative, creative, and extremely responsive with a strong sense of urgency.
• Responsible, conscientious, and the proven ability to deliver under minimal supervision.
• 4-year degree in computer science or related technical field or equivalent work experience.

Recommended skills, abilities, and certifications

• Experience with performance testing and/or development in an IBM iSeries environment is helpful.
• Experience with performance testing and/or development with IBM WebSphere is desirable.
• Strong programming skills in C# are preferred.
• Experience working with Visual Studio Team Test and Team Foundation Sever is preferred.
• Demonstrable experience with web services development and testing is preferred.
• Proficiency with XML, SOAP, and WSDL is preferred.
• Strong understanding of Waterfall and Agile SDLCs is preferred.

Country: USA, State: Washington, City: Issaquah, Company: CodeSmart Inc.