Frontend Tester in City of London

The purpose of the role is to carry out Business Testing processes using performance testing and manual testing tools, which are consistent with the Test Policy and Strategy, working with the Head of QA to ensure that efficient testing is delivered to the agreed quality standards.

Responsibilities

• Performs integrations, stress, load, regression and performance testing to validate production readiness of software applications and infrastructure for stability and performance.
• Provides Performance testing software systems support for respective business unit.
• Coordinates and executes upon the creation of Test Cases, scripts and performance test execution.
• Designs, develops, and executes scripts which validate, to a high degree of confidence, test cases defined within the project’s test plan.
• Performs automated load/performance testing across multiple messaging protocols, focusing on overall application performance - validating that application response and outputs accurately reflect business requirements.
• Tracks and communicates task progress, status, and key performance metrics.
• Reports defects found in testing diligently, promptly, and accurately, using standard defect tracking tools.
• Communicates effectively across multiple teams/external vendors (Operations, Project Teams, Quality Service), different personnel (Developers, Scrum Masters, Project Managers) when required.
• Maintains technical expertise via self-education in areas governing computer sciences, performance/load testing dictums, and Quality Assurance.
• Designs, develops, and executes performance test cases and scripts through analysis of product specifications and software requirements.
• Coaches other team members in performance testing.
• Assists Developers with root cause analysis of defects found.

People/Culture

• Awareness and determination to always demonstrate respectful and inclusive behaviours to contribute to a positive culture.
• Able to motivate a team, recognise good talent and bring out the best out of each individual to support project delivery.

Experience

• Provides support and mentoring to distributed project teams on performance activities.
• Interfaces directly with the Performance Test Lead regarding performance test environment.
• At least 4 years of experience with performance test simulations and analysis.
• Ability in planning and running end to end test cycles including Sprints, System Integration Testing and UAT.
• Ability to develop subject matter expertise in gathering functional requirements from a test strategy perspective.
• Ability to develop performance test frameworks using JMeter and LoadRunner.
• Strong knowledge of performance testing methodologies and tools.
• Familiarity with programming languages and scripting (e.g., Java, Python, Shell).
• Ability to own QA deliveries including test planning, estimation, reporting, managing start to end test life cycle with the ongoing development sprints.
• Experience working in an agile development environment.
• Self-starter who can drive/facilitate requirements and development effort.
• Take ownership and responsibility for the full development lifecycle.
• A team player, capable of engaging with other teams in Technology.
• Familiarity with CI/CD and DevOps.
• Experience developing the performance testing framework for Microsoft apps is a major plus.
• Ability to work as part of a self-directed Agile team.

Technical Skills

• Knowledge on Performance testing methodologies and tools.
• Experience with Performance monitoring and analysis.
• Experience in using Load testing tools (e.g., JMeter, LoadRunner).
• Knowledge on Programming languages and scripting (e.g., Java, Python, Shell).
• Ability to develop performance testing frameworks using the performance testing tools.
• Ability to auto deploy, distribute and execute the performance testing frameworks using Git, BitBucket and Jenkins.
• Experience with git and Atlassian toolset.
• Experience in use of a number of industry recognised test analysis techniques.
• Experience in Financial Services Industry required, Insurance an advantage.
• Understanding of test scheduling and working with business teams in implementing the execution for those schedules.

Competencies

• Ability and drive to work independently without supervision and take ownership of assigned tasks.
• Good communication skills, both spoken and written are essential.
• Able to demonstrate a passion for quality and pride in their work; an enquiring mind and the desire to constantly improve their skills and knowledge.
• Ability to work under pressure to tight deadlines.
• Able to manage technical interdependencies and stakeholder delivery expectations.
• Able to maintain high delivery standards and performance of project teams, comprised of internal employees, contractors and external suppliers.
• Able to quickly assess and quantify short- and long-term impact of change, deal with ambiguity and uncertainty and be able to evaluate and present options to meet business expectations using their performance testing skills/adapting the regression packs to suit business needs.
• Effective influencing and negotiation experience and skills in an environment with high competition for resources.
• Find out innovative ways to improve efficiency under such conditions.
• There might be a degree of client facing work so the candidate must be articulate and presentable at all times.
• Work with our outsource partners, manage, monitor performance test related tasks and set a strategic direction in performance test space for the business.