Performance Test Manager
Blue Prism, United Kingdom

• Your key skill will be the design of project and release performance and scale test approach and plans and the delivery of these plans against schedules
• An ambitious team player who strives for technical excellence and drives continuous improvement throughout the team
• You have a technical background and are able to understand at a detailed level the design and implementation of performance testing using a range of technical toolsets (experience with Jmeter for load generation, experience with front end frameworks for UI automation, experience with software and platform performance monitoring tools)
• Worked with multiple technologies and understands the value of test automation within the performance testing space
• Proven track record contributing and driving non-functional testing strategy, test planning and reporting
• You will have experience in managing people, supporting team and individual development
• Strong understanding of the importance of risk assessment in deriving an approach to quality assurance for new and iterative projects
• You will have a drive to lead initiatives to enhance non-functional quality practices, improving quality and efficiency
• You will be passionate about quality and take ownership for the quality of our products in all aspects
• You will be adaptable in various testing methodologies, amp; practices, and tools that complement the performance test approach
• You will have strong experience working within an agile software development environment and be able to support team members in adopting agile testing approaches
• You will be a self-starter who finds solutions rather than problems and is easily able to adapt to new technologies
• You will be used to working in an agile environment and adaptable to changing circumstances in a fast-paced environment

Requirements

• 5+ years experience in a Performance test specific Management or Lead role
• Software testing certification e.g. ISTQB or equivalent
• Design of key performance testing artefacts such as test approach, plans, schedules, entry and exit reports
• Background performance testing predominantly web-based, cloud native, service bus architecture solutions
• Experience working with tools such as Jmeter for back-end load testing, and Visual Studios for the design of .Net front end automation for automated UI response time measurement
• Ability to identify both risks to approach and quality and to communicate, mitigate and manage such risks
• Estimation in testing effort, resource requirements and scheduling of quality activities to deliver to a plan. Management of a pipeline of system performance and scale test schedules for software projects
• Identification, definition and application of non-functional test types and techniques to validate functional requirements
• Identification and implementation of process improvements
• Selection of appropriate test types and techniques and incorporation into test approach in order to ensure project quality requirements are met
• Experience managing small to medium teams
• Strong background leading performance and scale testing within an agile environment, supporting in-sprint testing
• Experience appraising and developing team members
• Passion and drive for test automation, continuous integration at the performance test level and associated toolsets
• Located within a commutable distance to Birchwood, Warrington

Good to have

• BS/BA degree in computer science, engineering or related discipline
• Experience managing and supporting teams comprising of members that are geographically diverse
• Experience utilising and extracting data from monitoring tools such as loadrunner and Grafana for performance monitoring
• Experience in back end (technology agnostic) performance testing and analysis
• Experience with participation in agile planning, sprinting and reviews
• Strong Stakeholder management skills
• Experience with hiring and recruitment processes
• Experience working with Kanban/scrum agile methodologies
• Conceptual or hands on experience/knowledge of automation frameworks testing at multiple layers
• Experience designing test approach and plans for cloud native, service based architecture solutions
• Background working with virtual machines and associated configuration

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Performance and Scale Approach and Test Planning for multiple projects and solutions

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