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Must Have Skills & who can apply:

• At-least 1 years of hands-on experience in NeoLoad or Load Runner.
• At-least 2 years of experience in Performance Testing.
• Only Chennai Location Can apply.

Responsibility:

Requirement Gathering/ Analysis :

• Understand application, technologies involved in application.
• Collect nonfunctional requirements (such as response time, throughput numbers, user load, etc.) through discussions with SMEs, business users.
• Analyze production/ application logs to understand usage pattern and derive nonfunctional requirements.
• Identify business-critical testable scenarios and derive workload model for same.
• Identify opportunities to adopt PACE Solution accelerators and provide feedback based on requirement analysis.
• Share inputs from project planning perspective with Test Lead/Architect (in case of long-term projects).
• Review requirements and provide inputs on proposal with architect (In case of short-term projects).
• Participate in KT calls to understand the requirements.

Design and Development/ Execution and Recommendation :

• Design and Development (Test execution/ Planning): Review test plan prepared by Test Analyst and recommend appropriate test to be conducted, environment to be used etc.
• Identify tools that to be used.
• Develop proof of concept for particular scenarios, if required and seek approval from Architect.
• Review test scripts developed by test engineer/ test analyst to ensure alignment with test strategy.
• Review test environment setup and test data prepared by engineer.
• Design and Development (SDLC): Conduct code profiling to identify bottlenecks and troubleshoot same.
• Provide recommendations to developer on code constructs to optimize performance.

Test Execution and Recommendation:

Interpret test results, identify bottlenecks and suggest additional diagnostic tests that need to be conducted to uncover performance issues.

Knowledge Sharing :

• Conduct knowledge sharing sessions on new technologies with other teams.
• Create case study and associated collaterals on completed projects.
• Provide inputs on evaluations tools/ technologies that can be used to Architect.
• Organize KT sessions for new team members.
• Mentor ELTs and new joinees.
• Support in maintaining the CoE website.
• Collect and present technical artefacts on performance and scalability from various sources.
• Contribute to knowledge repository and tools.
• Identify opportunities to adopt PACE Solution accelerators and provide feedback to improve the same.

Enablement Activities :

• Technical learning.
• Learn and Understand one under each category of the following technologies.
• Appserver Websphere/Weblogic/Tomcat/JBOSS.
• Language Java/Net/C++/Perl/C#.
• Database Oracle/DB2/SQL/MYSQL.
• Operating System Windows / Unix.
• Complete PE L0 CCP on Performance Engineering.
• Learn and understand Performance testing, NFR management and profiling concepts.
• For Mainframe associates, Learn and understand mainframe related technologies and AS400.

Tools Learning :

• Load Testing like LoadRunner/Webload/OpenSTA/Silk Performer.
• Profiling like Jprofiler/Optimizit/DotTrace/Jprobe.
• Analysis Tools like GCViewer/ Heap analyzer / Thread Analyzer Statspack/DBMon/SQLProfiler.
• Monitoring Tools like NetMon/PerfMon/Unix perf-monitoring.

Architecture & Design of Applications:

• Understand Specific design patters for specific technologies (eg EJB Design patters etc) should be mastered.
• Understanding of where to use them and their advantages and disadvantages.
• Understand Data Modeling for OLTP and OLAP databases Basic concepts for efficient data modeling including Normalization and Denormalization.
• Understand the Internals of One Application Server, One Operating System and One Database Server.