Tech Stack
AzureGrafanaJMeterPrometheusSelenium
About the role
- Lead Performance/Non-Functional testing projects for Expleo’s customers
- Lead the testing effort and be accountable for Performance/NFT test related activity on projects
- Feed into centralised project review meetings to update stakeholders on project status
- Work and co-ordinate with Project Manager, Lead Architect and Delivery Manager to deliver projects
- Review and contribute to scope, Performance/NFR projects, test design, estimates and closure artefacts
- Manage, lead & co-ordinate actions on test domain with support of Lead Architect
- Create and deliver Plan, Strategy and Performance/NFT process, criteria, templates, tools and standards
- Provide escalation support and quality assurance checks throughout the project
- Review, lead & co-ordinate pre-requisites, dependencies, estimates, test design, execution and reporting
- Collaboratively manage service partners and vendors to deliver projects to high quality and on time
- Provide key stakeholder management in a multi-vendor, multi-test discipline environment
- Manage the test life cycle and co-ordinate Test Leads and Testers both onshore and offshore
Requirements
- Additional course or certification in Quality Engineering or IT Management
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related field, or equivalent work experience
- ISTQB Advanced Test Manager, preferred
- Excellent communication skills, maintain confidentiality, shares ideas and information, facilitates discussions and transfers knowledge to diverse audiences
- Has achieved trusted advisor status at a senior level with the client
- Excellent client-facing skills and takes time to establish underlying needs of client beyond those initially expressed
- Experience in leading a Performance/NFT project
- Experience in managing upwards with multiple people, gaining their trust quickly
- Experience in managing a team and coordinating time and budget
- Good people skills, with experience of introducing and building ways in which people can learn from each other
- Encourages mentoring and the transfer of knowledge by designing and delivering learning interventions
- Takes on high commitments and works to achieve results; resilient in face of challenges
- Good applications/technology knowledge with practical experience of engineering/development tools and platforms
- Solid understanding of performance/non-functional test specification, analysis and design, implementation and system integration, execution, results evaluation, problem resolution and planning
- Experience in designing, coding, testing and correcting scripts from agreed specifications using agreed standards and tools
- Experience in implementing robust error handling and clear/consistent reporting functionality
- Knowledge of relevant testing tools in performance/NFT and test automation: LoadRunner, JMeter, NeoLoad, Gatling, LoadUI, ALM, Dynatrace, SiteScope, Cucumber or Selenium
- Knowledge and experience of monitoring tools such as Datadog, New Relic, Prometheus, AppDynamics or Grafana
- Strong knowledge of CI/CD concepts and tools
- Strong knowledge of databases
- Exposure to Test Management tools such as Azure DevOps, JIRA or ALM