Performance Tester

Description

Position Description Strong familiarity with commercial off the shelf performance test tools and a strong understanding of architecture, techniques and management process across a broad spectrum of systems, applications, and requirements. Experienced with performance testing of complex systems and applications on multiple platforms. Reviews computer systems capabilities, workflow, and scheduling limitation to determine if modification is necessary/possible within current system. Studies existing information processing systems to evaluate effectiveness and develops new systems to improve production o r workflow as required. Prepares documentation for use by equipment and computer operators within the system. Plans and prepares technical reports and manuals. Provides direction to lower level engineers. Required Skills Expert in designing, executing and analyzing load/stress/performance tests using HP Loadrunner and Winrunner. Work closely with customer and provide necessary support needed for performance testing and capacity management in System Integrated Environment. Writes performance test plans in support of endtoend system performance evaluation and analysis. Working experience in various protocols HTTP, Web Services, ORACLE et c. Expert in handling the entire load/performance testing independently which involves lot of interaction with multiple components developers, system administrators, DBAs Expert in gathering and analyzing of various usage statistics like peak hour usage, peak hour volume, transaction data and preparation of various load test scenarios. Expert in preparation of work load assumptions document in sync with the existing or projected production usage statistics. Expertise in the analysis of the test results and preparation of various graphs and reports. Expert in analyzing the performance of the application under test under varying loads and concurrent users. Identify the bottlenecks in the application performance, conduct analysis and provide recommendations to management to improve the performance. Experience in the installation and troubleshooting of the Loadrunner servers and agents ,on the windows servers. Expert in monitoring the system and collecting the various usage charts in terms of CPU utilization, MIPS usage, of the application servers, middle ware and backend servers. Expertise in the use of monitoring tools Sitescope, Introscope, BMC patrol, ITCAM,STROBE etc Expert in collecting and compiling various usage reports from multiple sources and preparing the final performance analysis report. Expert in the preparation of risk assessment and capacity management and advise management about the application performance under various load capacities. Analyze and project the impact of the application performance in production environments. Produce a final risk assessment showing whether there is a low, moderate, or high risk of the current peak user volume of usage to negatively impact the application