Automation Solution Consultant – Senior
6 month contract
Location: Hybrid – 2 days a week onsite, Toronto
Job Title
Senior Performance Test Engineer
Description
Job Details:
· Authors Performance strategy and test plans
· Define Non- functional Strategy
· Define, develop and achieve performance/scalability benchmarks
· Design, develop, and execute performance test cases and scripts through analysis of product specifications and software requirements
· Performs integrations, stress, load, regression and performance testing to validate production readiness of software applications and infrastructure for stability and performance
· Design POCs to suggest new tools to improve existing performance suites
· Monitor and track the automation for effectiveness
· Perform automated load/performance testing across multiple messaging protocols (including HTTP), focusing on overall application performance – validating that application response and outputs accurately reflect business requirements
· Drive performance / load test operations towards a CI pipeline model to support continuous performance improvements in the solution
· Real-Time Performance Testing: Experience with testing real-time data processing systems, ensuring minimal latency, high throughput, and stability under peak loads.
· Resilience & Fault Tolerance Testing: Simulating network failures, server crashes, and other disruptions to assess how the system recovers and handles failures.
· Observability & Monitoring: Experience with real-time monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or Splunk to track performance metrics and system health.
· Performance in Distributed Systems: Assessing how performance scales in a distributed/cloud-native environment and ensuring optimal resource utilization.
· Tracks and communicates task progress, status, and key performance metrics
· Report defects found in testing diligently, promptly, and accurately, using standard defect tracking tools
· Pinpointing bottlenecks, and collaborating with relevant teams to enhance system performance.
· Communicate effectively across multiple teams/external vendors (Operations, Project Teams, Quality Service, ), different personnel (Developers, Scrum Masters, Project Managers, ) when required
· Hands-on experience within API REST/SOAP testing and experience using related tools, Postman, ReadyAPI etc along with understanding of the UI applications.
· Expected to maintain technical expertise via self-education in areas governing computer sciences, performance/load testing dictums, and Quality Assurance
Skills:
· Extensive experience with Performance testing and automation tools such as JMeters, LoadRunner, Cloudtest, Selenium, Appium or similar
· Proficiency with scripting tools such as python, and shell scripting
· Code knowledge PHP,HTML,CSS,AutoIt,XML,JSON,Javascript, Log4net
· Experience with Real-Time Data Technologies: Kafka, RabbitMQ, or other event-driven architectures.
· Cloud Performance Testing: Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and their performance testing methodologies, including auto-scaling and load balancing strategies.
· Low Latency Optimization: Experience optimizing applications for low-latency scenarios, including techniques like caching, message queuing, and network optimizations.
· Experience developing your own testing tools to facilitate performance testing is a major plus
· Ability to work as part of a self-directed Agile team
· Provide support and mentoring to distributed project teams on performance activities
· Strong data analysis and post processing skills to validate system performance
- Extensive hands on experience with manual and automated Performance testing
- Hands on experience on installation, setup and configuration the system to get going
· Demonstrated competency with various tools, including Defect Management Tools, Test Management and Planning Tools
· 3-4 years experience in software application development or test automation (some experience may be in an academic environment)
· Should have knowledge about authentication (Basic, Digest, Form-Based, Bearer Tokens, JWT Tokens, MFA) implementation in load testing tools
Experience
· 5+ years of experience with performance test simulations and performance analysis ,performance monitoring in a n-tier environment
· Strong load testing, development and specifically J/Meter skills and experience
· 3+ years of experience with Agile methodologies
· Solid understanding of Performance test process methodologies, approaches and tools
· 3+ years experience working with cloud technologies like Azure
Education
· Completion of a university degree or college diploma, preferably in computer science/engineering, information technology, business administration, or a related discipline, or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience