Performance Tester

ALTEN Romania, part of the international ALTEN Group - with a unique position as Leader in IT & Engineering Consulting, provides support for its clients’ development strategies in the fields of innovation, R&D and IT systems since 1996. The company comprises 2 divisions specialized on its core capabilities: ENGINEERING and IT. These two divisions are: ALTEN TECHNO and ALTEN IT.

• Knowledge of relevant tools such as HP Performance Centre / HP LoadRunner and JMeter
• knowledge of monitoring tools like AppDynamics, DynaTrace, Sitescope, JConsole/VisualVM
• QA Automation experience
• Relevant experience in software development, testing and support with hands-on Performance Testing
• Experience in software development processes, models, lifecycles and methodologies, with particular emphasis on Agile methodology
• Excellent skills in Test planning, designing, and test strategy/case/script creation and execution
• Able to balance scope, quality, effort, schedule and risk at all times
• Experience with application development and multi-platform architectures, understanding of various client-server technologies that are running in a very complex environment
• Experience with defect and change tracking, producing performance metrics
• Ability to influence and indirectly lead / provide thought leadership on performance testing.
• Previous experience working effectively in globally and culturally diverse teams as well as in matrix organizations
• Good programming skills, like C, Java Script, SQL
• Fluent in English, verbally and writing

• Participate in the hands-on test creation/execution/analysis and reporting of non-functional testing activities
• Writing and ownership of test plan including effort estimation, test cases, test data and environment setup
• Work on tasks identified in the testing strategy and plan and will coordinate with all team members, including offshore colleagues
• Identifies and classifies risks as they arise and follows plan for risk response and mitigation
• Conducts Proof of Concept using technical tools and evaluates ROI and feasibility studies
• Has a strong ownership of performance testing activities and provides input to the project plan/release plan, defect/change management processes, systems integration, testing tools and processes
• Performance bottleneck identification, troubleshooting and suggestion of possible solutions
• Documents test summary, provision of product improvement suggestions and communicates the results
• Manages/influences key stakeholder expectations and delivers against agreed standards
• Designs innovative, sustainable solutions which are congruent with the strategic direction of the Bank
• Displays robust knowledge of change management tools and techniques to support stakeholders throughout the change curve

oana.pintilie[at]alten.com