Role: NFT Test Engineer
Duration: 11 months
Location: Northampton (Hybrid) 2 days onsite

Job description:
This role is for NFT Tester who would be responsible to work with multiple business aligned scrum teams conducting performance based testing, engineering and monitoring activities. The engineer will work within the scrum team and members of central Performance Test team to test the performance of the systems, documenting issues and work with whomever it takes to determine root cause of any issues. The measure of success is preventing any significant performance problems from hitting Production at a large scale..

What will you be doing
Work closely with Performance Test lead interacting with BAs, development groups conduct and participate in line of business performance testing and analysis to ensure performance, stability and scalability of applications
Understand the NFRs and able to design work load modelling, test scenarios, scripts etc.
Report on the possibilities of performance failures and make sound decisions for next steps.
Measure, monitor and capture required infrastructure & application performance metrics, logs and reports
Measure results against business and technical requirements.
Develop and validate test scripts against business unit-of-work requirements and Scripting best practices
Prioritize and manage multiple initiatives supporting multiple lines of business
React accordingly to various challenges before, during and after application performance testing engagements
Utilize diagnostic and monitoring tools like CA Wily Introscope, AppDynamics, etc. to measure, detect, isolate and resolve performance issues found during application development performance testing
Able to instrument Java calls/Methods on AppDynamics for performance testing and be able to migrate the calls to monitor the applications calls performance in production systems
Collaborate with test leads and delivery/business leads on the delivery of results.

Skills/Capability Growth
Sharing knowledge with colleagues both proactively and on-demand
Identifying development needs of junior team members
Taking proactive steps to maintain skills in relevant specialist areas, and continuously broadening knowledge of systems and technologies

What we're looking for
Strong skills with LoadRunner/HP Performance Center required script creation using VuGen for Web (HTTP/HTML) Web services, etc. protocols (as applicable) to emulate the application. All scripts are to be appropriately correlated, parameterized, with any check points, think time need to be added, etc.
Build custom code with the C programming language to make scripts robust and dynamic.
Build, Leverage and Maintain effective alliance with Business/Development team.
Experience with Agile Software development methodologies and able to adapt him/her-self with the fast pace environment.
Experience with monitoring tools like CA Wily Introscope, AppDynamics, vmstat, iostat, htop, Splunk.
Experience with testing applications on cloud based environment like Amazon Cloud (AWS), Microsoft Cloud (Azure), Google Cloud etc.
Experience with testing DB's like Mongo DB and Oracle DB's

Skills that will help you in the role:-
Conceptual Understanding/Hands on of AIX, VMware, Tomcat, SQL Server, Oracle, etc.
Prior experience/knowledge working with Banking Domain/Application
Prior experience with Tuning/optimization of .NET/J2EE Applications
Experience in writing simple monitoring and data extraction tools in Java, Python, and/or Unix Shell
Experience of working and implementation of CICD pipeline.