Performance Testing Lead

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Position Category:
Information Technology
Position Title:
Performance Testing Lead
Job Level:
Vice President
Location:
USA - NY - New York
Education Required:
Bachelors Degree
Position Description:
- Act as a very hands-on leader/manager of a performance testing team consisting of on/offshore team members for application development silos within the MSWM technology merger project
- Design and mentor team members who design and create best-in-class performance testing approaches and plans for enterprise-wide projects
- Assist project team members with infrastructure and application performance monitoring and analysis
- Evaluate overall system capacity during end-to-end load tests
- Work tightly with application development, architecture, infrastructure and engineering groups for performance testing and application analysis initiatives to define success criteria and evaluation methodologies.
- Work closely with the test management team to establish performance testing criteria
- Provide quality, process and technical leadership within the Performance Management team
- Provide insight into performance bottlenecks leveraging a variety of skills and tool sets on multiple platforms
- Establish a strong presence as a change agent providing innovative, effective, and efficient Performance Management practices and solutions.
Skills Required:
- 5-7 years experience in the performance engineering field
- 4-6 years experience in managing a team
- Strong communication skills
- Must possess a strong knowledge of enterprise application architecture and technologies including web, web services, distributed and mainframe databases, mainframe and messaging layers. Must also have a strong understanding of the monitoring solutions and KPIs used to determine availability and performance of these technology stacks.
- Must be well versed in using VUGen 9.5 or greater for advanced test script development beyond the built-in record and playback capabilities.
- Must be well versed in using the reporting/analysis engine for reporting on and correlating system-level events with the impact on the end user experience.
- Must be able to create load test scripts using VUGen in at least two or more of the following protocols: HTTP, SOAP, AJAX Click and Script, ODBC, Terminal Emulator, Visual Basic, .NET and Java
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Should possess an understanding of software development and implementation methodologies including waterfall and Agile.
- Must possess strong experience using and implementing best practice programs with respect to load generation, bottleneck analysis, usage of modeling tools and statistical analysis.
- Strong experience in mainframe and distributed application performance testing
- Strong understanding and/or hands-on experience is required in the following categories:
- Operating System: Windows 2000 / 2003 Server, Red Hat Linux.
- J2EE Application Server: IBM WebSphere XD/ND
- Database: IBM DB2 distributed and mainframe v9.x, SQL Server 2005
- Application Development Platforms: .NET, J2EE,
- Tools: HP suite of products specifically Performance Center, HP Diagnostics (.NET and J2EE), Sitescope and Quality Center
Morgan Stanley

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