Senior Performance QA Engineer

Come work at a place where innovation and teamwork come together to support the most exciting missions in the world!We invite you to be part of motivated and agile Qualys engineering team responsible for developing high-end Cloud based Security Solutions.In this position, you will be responsible for product quality and performance, building utilities for automated functionality testing and utilizing advanced testing methodologies to deliver innovative and scalable products.This position is for our fastest growing R&D center in Pune, India, which is part of multi-continent engineering team.

Responsibilities

:Proficient in Performance testing tools like JMeterManage planning and creating automated performance tests, executing tests and results to measure performance, scalability, stability, and reliability.Expertise in test planning, estimation, Strategy, workload design, environment setup and defect managementExperience in application monitoring tools like AppDynamicsExperience in Applications like ElasticSearch, OpenSearch, Grafana, KafkaHands-on experience in writing and executing performance test scenarios for complex systemsHands-on experience with performance test simulations, performance analysis, performance tuning, performance monitoring in a microservices environmentPerform analysis of performance issues in Pre-production and/or Production environments.Hands- on experience in analyzing the performance results - Capture/Analyze/Interpret technical data - performance metrics from application, database, OS, and Network.Demonstrate ability to capture key metrics, create accurate status reports and effectively communicate to the stake holdersExperience in any cloud environment, Docker/KubernetesAnalyze the CPU Utilization, Memory usage, Network usage, Garbage Collection to verify the performance of the applications.Identifying memory leakage, connection issues and Bottleneck areas in the applicationGenerate performance graphs, session reports, and other related documentation required for validation and analysisPublish results and provide appropriate signoff. Prepare detailed status reports and monitor all defects and issuesGood understanding of basic DB tuning, application server tuning and common issues around performance and scalabilityStrong problem-solving skills, excellent communication and time management skills

Qualifications

:Degree in Computer Science or equivalent5-8 years of work experience in the field of performance testing and test automation of multi-tier Enterprise and/or Cloud, SaaS applicationsExperience in web applications user interface and RESTful web services testing both at functional and non-functional levelKnowledge of Java, Python, NodeJS that could be used in automation frameworksExperience in writing automation tools/framework (Selenium, JMeter)Understanding of XML, XSD, JSON, REST and SOAP and demonstrated experience with web services APIsGood understanding of computer networks and networking conceptsWorking knowledge of Databases like Oracle and CassandraGood exposure to Unix flavored operating system