Sr. Performance & Scalability Test Engineer

The Role

Sr. Performance & Scalability Test Engineer will work with the Performance and Scalability team at Tesla providing test expertise and QA methodologies to the engineering team members. Our agile environment strives for best practices of tools development and test automation frameworks development suitable for platform testing and QA methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Setup and maintain test environments
• Develop and maintain scripts and tools to load simulated test data to test environments
• Develop, integrate and maintain the most suitable test automation framework
• Design and develop system stress test, system performance test and system regression test
• Improve and document platform test strategies, procedures and processes
• Collect, aggregate and publish quality metrics
• Participate in platform feature development from design to construction and release; working together with product group and development engineers
• Designing and scripting performance load models in JMeter
• Identify & Analyze DB performance and network performance bottlenecks
• Influences organizational goals beyond a specific project.
• Execute performance test load and collect related resource data — network, system utilization
• Ability to determine future performance needs and architectural changes based on the continued growth of the application.

Requirements:

• 5+ years in software performance engineering/testing.
• Experience with APM solutions (having worked with “AppDynamics” is bonus)
• Hands on experience of JMeter scripts.
• Hands on experience with Coded-UI Scripts
• Working knowledge of Databases.
• Experience with designing and developing automated reporting (i.e. knowing how to represent the resultant data from tests in a way that is valuable to different audiences and how the tested systems trend over time).
• Experience working in a spatially distributed team (i.e. both on and off shore).
• Must be willing to work in a highly dynamic environment (with tight deadlines and ever changing priorities).
• Passion and drive for Performance, Scalability and Reliability of all systems.
• Evidence of exceptional ability.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science and/or the equivalent in experience.

Good to Have:

• Linux experience (bonus for Linux Administration/Setup)
• Experience in Automated software test frameworks
• Understanding on data modelling and data structure