[New Job Opening] Performance Test Engineer job Vacancy in Rickmansworth

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Job Details:
Position Name :
Performance Test Engineer
Location:
Rickmansworth
Job ID :
0e576c7163f7fa7f
Description : Our Purpose
We work to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments and businesses realize their greatest potential. Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. We cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation and delivers better business results.
Job Title
Performance Test Engineer
Responsibilities:
Working within the ITMX and BCS Non-Functional Testing team to ensure the code delivered to the Customer and/or Live is fit for use.
Performance Engineering
Document and implement performance engineering strategy and test plans covering environment, schedule, test data set up to certify performance SLAs.
Coordinate and participate in requirements review, design and architecture reviews to feed into performance testing activities of assigned developed systems.
Partner with operations and developers to develop performance dashboards and provide periodic updates on application performance to all the stakeholders.
Monitor automated and manual performance testing, troubleshoot performance issues covering platform hardware analysis, scalability, and application profiling (Java, Erlang, Databases, etc.), and drive performance issues to closure.
Define and implement best practices for end-to-end application performance management solutions including Proof of Concepts and Tools evaluation and selection where alternative tools are needed.
Document problems, monitor resolutions and retain documentation necessary to share knowledge with engineering and application teams.
Develop business and product knowledge over time and share such knowledge to mentor newer team members.
Volume and Performance Testing of a release
Ensure the responsiveness of the functionality is acceptable to the customers.
Provide sufficient confidence in the release to support the decision of Live deployment.
Ensure defects are prioritised correctly from a commercial viewpoint.
Produce reports highlighting progress.
Manage any issues/blockers to progress.
Produce test completion summary reports that are shipped to the customer.
Migration Testing of a release
Identify the migration approach (release requirement, environment, schedule, test data) that will be undertaken for a release.
Ensure the backup and recovery system function correctly.
Ensure that the integrated application is stable.
Ensure that the integrated applications has no performance degradation impacts.
Validate functionality once upgraded, Verify data integrity.
Provide sufficient confidence in the release to support the decision of Live deployment.
Ensure defects are prioritised correctly from a commercial viewpoint.
Produce reports highlighting progress.
Manage any issues/blockers to progress.
Produce migration instructions that are shipped to the customer.
Expectations
Plan, estimate and define Non Functional test approach understanding the business, commercial and Non Functional requirements.
Lead the non-functional test team, driven to get multiple parallel Non-functional test projects done on time.
To use technical knowledge of the platforms and applications to determine appropriate tests.
To create and gain sign off of Non Function test strategies and test plans.
To ensure all risks and issues are reported, escalated and managed through to resolution.
To engage with the requirements team to resolve any points of clarification with respect to Non Functional test requirements to ensure sign off is agreed.
To assure from within the test team that all tests produced are consistent with the scope of the delivery.
To engage with Infrastructure & Network Services team where support is required.
To liaise with Development, DevOps and Functional Test where needed.
Deploy the latest release of code for testing.
To improve the resource consumption of the applications in order to reduce the cost of hardware acquisition in the immediate future.
To build relationships with the key teams in Vocalink/MasterCard.
To develop and maintain testing artefacts, processes and procedures and ensure these apply across all Vocalink/MasterCard Non Functional Testing projects.
To carry out any other task associated with the role as reasonably requested.
Experience
Mandatory
Experience in Non Functional Testing with experience as a Performance Engineer.
Must be detail focused. Must have detailed knowledge of Non Functional Test processes.
Able to define Performance Test plans and roadmaps and partner with the Engineering team to deliver strategy.
Experience in building right performance environment data sets and use of data virtualization tools where required.
Sound understanding of all technical aspects of testing.
Able to assess varying priorities and establish critical path / MVP when time constrained.
Self-motivated individual that finds and delivers solutions with the ability to continuously learn new applications and technologies.
Driven to get the job done, with a willingness to work out of hours at short notice. Ability to work around setbacks and blockers to achieve the solution.
Excellent planning and organisational skills.
Flexibility to take on new projects, ways of working.
Excellent problem solving skills and the ability to find solutions to issues, work around conflicting priorities (different test phases/projects all with different priorities) with a view to the commercial reality.
Prior experience installing, configuring and using Performance Testing tools such as LoadRunner, JMeter.
Experience of performance monitoring tools.
Good working knowledge of Java and the ability to monitor and tune JVM/App servers, articulate JVM GC logs, ability to collect performance metrics.
Experience of Oracle and SQL Scripting.
Good working knowledge of WebLogic/WebSphere/Tomcat or any enterprise level middleware technologies.
Good working knowledge of networking between multi-sites.
Experience of testing high volume transaction processing systems.
Good knowledge of load generation test tool.
Performance tuning experience with RDBMS (Oracle, SQL server etc.).
Good working knowledge of Enterprise Systems Management products.
Experience of Agile and tools such as ALM.
Working effectively with both onshore and offshore teams.
Experience of undertaking Non Functional Testing in the Cloud.
Desirable
Working knowledge of Erlang (or demonstrable ability to learn a new language). Erlang is a fundamental part of the runtime environment.
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COVID-19 Considerations
We value the safety of each member of our community because we know we’re all in this together. In many locations, which may change over time, we’ve implemented a virtual hiring process and continue to interview candidates by video or phone. In addition, in some locations, only individuals who have been fully vaccinated will be permitted inside Mastercard offices until further notice.
In the US, Mastercard is a government contractor, which may legally require most Mastercard employees to be vaccinated unless a verified approved medical or religious exemption is granted. Further, we are currently making every effort towards having employees return to work in the office 2 days per week, if that makes sense for their team. Everyone must be vaccinated to enter Mastercard offices at this time. Therefore, we expect all candidates to be vaccinated or to be approved for a medical or religious accommodation prior to commencing work at Mastercard.
About Mastercard
Mastercard is an inclusive Equal Employment Opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
If you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process, please contact reasonable_accommodation@mastercard.com and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.
Corporate Security Responsibility
All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:
Abide by Mastercard’s security policies and practices;
Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;
Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and
Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.
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