Senior Lead Quality Engineer - R01571335

Senior Lead Quality Engineer

Job requirements

Experience Range: 5 to 8 years of experience in quality engineering, including at least 2 years in application resilience and performance testing Key Responsibilities:

• Design and execute comprehensive performance and resilience testing strategies for complex applications, incorporating chaos engineering principles
• Develop and implement chaos test scenarios using tools such as Gremlin and Chaos Monkey to assess application resilience
• Monitor application performance and resilience during testing using advanced observability tools, identifying bottlenecks and failure points
• Analyze test results and generate detailed, actionable reports for stakeholders, highlighting resilience metrics and recommendations
• Collaborate with development, QA, and operations teams to troubleshoot performance and resilience issues, driving root cause analysis
• Optimize test environments to ensure accurate and reliable performance and resilience testing outcomes
• Lead efforts to improve testing frameworks and methodologies, ensuring scalability and repeatability across multiple projects
• Stay current with industry best practices in performance and resilience engineering, proactively recommending enhancements to testing processes

Required Skills:

• Advanced proficiency in JMeter for designing and executing performance tests
• Hands-on experience with HP Load Runner for load and stress testing
• Practical expertise in chaos engineering tools such as Gremlin and Chaos Monkey
• Strong understanding of observability, failure injection, and resilience design patterns including circuit breaker and retries
• Expertise in application monitoring tools for real-time performance and resilience analysis
• Experience in identifying and resolving performance and resilience bottlenecks
• Ability to develop custom test scripts for complex scenarios
• Familiarity with test environment setup and configuration
• Competence in analyzing large datasets and performance logs

Preferred Skills:

• Experience with cloud-based performance and resilience testing platforms
• Knowledge of automation frameworks for performance and chaos testing
• Expertise in continuous integration and delivery pipelines for performance and resilience testing
• Familiarity with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
• Understanding of network protocols and web technologies relevant to performance and resilience engineering

Desired Qualifications:

• Associate's degree or college diploma in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or a closely related discipline
• Certification in performance testing tools such as JMeter or HP Load Runner
• Relevant certification in quality engineering or software testing, such as ISTQB Advanced Level Test Analyst