QA Performance Specialist
TrackTik
Your Mission
- We take phenomenal pride in our software quality and testing process, and we’re looking for a talented QA Performance Specialist to help us promote and evolve our standards of quality when it comes to reliability, usability, and performance. You will be involved in planning, designing, maintaining, and executing meaningful tests, guiding team members, and providing important quality related information to project stakeholders.
Your Day-to-Day
- Design and run performance & load tests as full-fledged member of project team
- Complement existing range of unit, integration, functional, and automation tests with performance & load tests reflecting real-world usage load under various conditions
- Analyzing and identifying performance issues within the software solution
- Collaborate with technology groupsto identify and troubleshoot performance problems
- Provide stakeholders performance findings, recommendations, and reports
- Develop and maintain performance tooling and test suites
- Skillfully test, evaluate, and explore the product, its features, and functionalities
- Perform skilled exploratory testing with consideration of context, objectives, variables and risks
- Brainstorm and design meaningful tests that consider project context and risks
- Build, drive, and share test strategy and test coverage models with project teams
- Perform functional, API, regression, and user acceptance tests in all areas of the SaaS solution including the web and mobile portions
- Select and use appropriate test strategies, techniques, and tools to accomplish the test mission
- Advocate for and integrate internal QA practices
- Collaborate and pair with QA Automation Developers
- Facilitate bug triage sessions
- Write clear and concise bug reports adhering to team guidelines in Jira
- Work with stakeholders to help determine release readiness of product and features
- Participate in daily stand-up meetings, story grooming sessions, story estimates, and sprint retrospective meetings
- Collaborate with project teams to discuss business requirements and needs, project risks, technical aspects, coverage, and integrations
- Maintain and implement a high quality of standard for all systems under test
- Provide recommendations and feedback to the team to improve product quality and processes
- Test reporting with consideration of status,risks, impacts, coverage, impediments,scope, and testability of the system under test.
- Work closely with the development team as a full-fledged member of the project team to help deliver high quality software solutions
Your Skills & Experience
- 4+ years of experience in a performance software testing or software quality engineer role
- Proficient in performance & load testing fundamentals
- Hands on experience designing, scripting, and executing performance & load tests using tools such as k6 and/or JMeter
- Proven ability to analyze performance test results, and identify bottlenecks
- Experience and knowledgein testing SaaS softwaresolutions is a plus
- Applicable knowledge of different test strategies and techniques and their uses
- Experience with brainstorming test ideas, test coverage design, and test creation
- Problem-solving, critical thinking, autonomy, and collaboration skills
- Experience working REST API architecture
- Practical experiencetesting web and mobilesoftware solutions
- Previous working experience with any API testing tool such as Postman, SoapUI
- Experience working in an agile environment
- Strong communicator who can work with cross functional teams
- Working with mind maps and coverage models is a plus
- Experience working with test management systems
- Experience with bug tracking systems (i.e., JIRA)
- Experience working with database management systems
- Understanding of test engineering fundamentals in the engineering space
- Knowledge of Cypress, Playwright, Appium,Android Studiois a plus.
- Knowledge of coding languages such as Java, JavaScript, TypeScriptis a plus
- Knowledge of CI/CD tools and solutions is a plus