PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATION EXPERIENCE:
- Good understanding of methodology, including specific types of tests and approaches. Able to select appropriate strategy for the exact goals.
- Experience with work planning, defining stories, tasks, estimations.
- Able to integrate performance testing into existing process.
- Has experience and good understanding how to investigate performance problems on various levels, knows tools for the analysis.
- Has knowledge and experience with tuning and optimization of the system under test to reach performance goals.
- Experience and good understanding of both server and client side testing and analysis.
PROFESSIONAL SKILLS:
- Responsible for full scope of performance testing activities for a data analysis product: design, implementation, execution, analysis of results and various performance related metrics.
- Analysis of performance related issues from production.
- Analysis of heap/thread dumps, GC logs.
- Setting up performance automation process using Jenkins pipelines.
- Handling test environments.
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Technologies involved: JMeter, Java, Jenkins, JProfiler, AWS, Linux.
Scripting in Python, R, bash
- Defines performance testing strategy based on the requirements, gathered statistics, application architecture and its components and discuss it with customer.
- Gathers or advises customer how to gather necessary statistics.
- Has basic knowledge concerning risk management, able to share main risks that can have an impact on the process and performance.
- Selects proper testing tools, sets up test environment.
- Develops complex scenarios with mix of transactions and distribution across components.
- Automates performance testing process, include it into delivery pipeline, able to share with customer its pros and cons.
- Runs performance tests in/from a cloud and against application in a cloud.
- Incorporates client-side testing into performance delivery.
- Investigates performance problems on various levels (application/database/network/infrastructure), understands how to drill down the problem and corresponding approaches and tools.
- Creates necessary test documentation and organize regular reporting to project management.
- Actively participates and presents results in project meeting, retrospective, demos.
- Participates in regular product performance reviews with customer.
- Shares knowledge with colleagues.
- Sets up performance testing for a project.
- Actively mentors less experienced colleagues.
TECHNOLOGIES & TOOLS:
- JMeter, Java, Jenkins, JProfiler, AWS, Linux.
- Scripting in Python, R, bash Carrier, Grafana
SOFTWARE PROCESS KNOWLEDGE:
- Knows differences between various process like waterfall, scrum, kanban etc.
- Able to discuss preferable process for performance testing, organize self work in one of the process and follow defined process.
DOCUMENTATION SKILLS :
- Able to read and understand project and requirement documentation. Able to create strategy, plans and high-level overview of the process. Able to create reports for various audience, define templates for the reports taking into account its purposes.
PROJECT ROLES
- Key Performance Analyst or Lead
RELIABILITY & QUALITY:
- Works independently without direct supervision.
- Creates deliverables in good quality.
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