Performance Tester

Description:

Client Services seeks a contract resource to assist with the development and implementation of NC Families Accessing Services through Technology (NC FAST) a Performance Tester to coordinate and ensure proper load, stress, and performance testing required for all NC Fast software applications.

Duties include reviewing and understanding all business, design, and functional requirements, gathering proper system requirements in order to create suitable performance test plans, test strategies, test scenarios, load test scripts, and test data; setting up performance monitoring; executing bottleneck, baseline, scalability, and breakpoints tests to ensure benchmarks are met; evaluating performance measurements and analysis of test results; and working with other project team members to diagnose performance related problems. Proactively identify problems, process, scope and schedule; determine appropriate solution(2), and work with project and functional management to implement solutions. Position also helps coordinate and ensure that all testing activities and deliverables are on time; and verifies all NC Fast software applications are thoroughly performance tested and meet performance test goals.

Experience with use case, test case definition skills, and load test scripting skills using HP Performance Center or LoadRunner, and VuGen test tools.
Experience supervising system/integration, regression & performance testers using industry testing standards and practices to support iterative dev.
Knowledge of and experience in implementing a large enterprise COTS application.
Experience executing software load and performance testing in custom enterprise application software development environment.
Experience in a formal QA role, or equivalent.
Performance test scripting experience including generating automated test scripts.
Experience with Java, J2EE, Weblogic, Web Application Frameworks, Portlets, Content Management Systems, Web Services, and XML.
Experience with HTML/DHTML/XHTML,AJAX, Flash, ActionScript and other Web based tools.
Experience and proficiency using HP Performance Center or LoadRunner, and HP Quality Center.
Strong oral, written communication and interpersonal skills in order to maintain effective working relationships with mgt, developers, & project staff
Knowledge of and experience with the Curam suite of products.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.