Performance Test Lead - Egham, United Kingdom - Intersoft Systems & Programming Limited

Description

Job title:
Performance Test Lead


Location:
Egham, Surrey, UK


Salary:
£65,000 - £75,000 per annum (DOE)


Working hours: 35 hours a week, flexible between 8:00am to 6:00pm


Hybrid Working:
Aminimum of 1 day a week in the office is required.


Reporting to:
Head of Testing and Service Delivery

Intersoft is an award-winning delivery management software provider and part of the Royal Mail Group. Our software has led the market in providing innovative shipping solutions since 1993 for retailers and third-party providers.

Our solution, Intelligent Shipper, integrates directly into multiple carriers and provides smart and convenient delivery methods such as Tracked, Click and Collect, Locker Boxes, Next Day and more to help retailers and brands scale eCommerce.

As a business, we are continuously striving to be better.

We foster an environment that allows our diverse and highly talented team to think, plan and further improve themselves and the software we develop.

And we believe this is working, as
96% of our employees said Intersoft is a great place to work

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

As a Performance Test Lead you will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining performance Test Framework and Test Suites for multiple Projects/Maintenance Cycles from Development through to Go-Live.

As a Performance Test Lead you will work with all departments to ensure quality deliverables, building strong relationships between the business and IT delivering software through Agile methodology.

From time to time, you will be required to perform software tests, following best practice to ensure quality and correct documentation of test procedures in all areas of software testing.

Key responsibilities include:

• Advise on implementation of Performance testing to ensure clean and scalable framework design which can be applied in a generic way across multiple projects and streams.
• Troubleshoot issues with team members implementing test frameworks and guide with a 'hands on' approach where necessary.
• Ensuring Test Delivery Assurance complies with Industry standard tools and frameworks.
• Working closely with Stakeholders, developers, business analysts, devops, and testers to understand requirements and translate to effective test frameworks.
• Effectively coach team members to build understanding of test strategy and create automated Performance test frameworks to support testing best practice.
• Ability to run Performance tests throughout the entire lifecycle of the product and data flows, from ingestion through to the presentation layer.
• Ability to plan and strategize testing for complex systems. This Involves planning scope of testing, Release/Sprint planning, resource planning, overall planning for E2E testing activities and Performance and Volume Testing.
• Capable of designing and execution of detailed functional test cases for complex requirements.
• Proactive and organised, capable of working in an ambiguous/uncertain environment, understanding risks & flagging it on time. Ability to mitigate risks and ensuring quality deliverables adhering to timelines.
• Excellent Communication, Coordination skills and Stakeholder management.
• Highly experienced in Agile ways of working.
• Leadership skills and ability to drive change using influence and networking.
• Good team player and effective leader with a longterm vision.
• Experience in identifying and implementing process improvements that improve the level of delivery while finding optimization opportunities.
• Manage and prioritise the Performance testing workload.
• Drive process improvements for delivering change, faster at optimum cost and minimised risk to operational services.
• Defining the scope of Performance testing within the context of each Project / Cycle
• Define and agree test plans with Test Lead and the Scrum teams.
• Provide accurate test estimates for Requirements.
• Monitor and report test progress to all interested parties and escalate issues as required.
• Ensure the acceptance criteria for each test phase are achieved.
• Train and mentor new Joiners and other Team members as and when required.

Key working relationships:

• Test Delivery Manager
• Testing Team
• Development Team
• DevOps Team
• Business Analysts
• Application Support Team

Expected experience & skills:

• 710 years of experience in Software Testing.
• Hands on experience in reading and writing clean code using C#.NET is desirable, knowledge of C#.NET is essential.
• Experience of designing, creating, and maintaining Performance frameworks and scripts in line with coding standards.
• Strong Testing Experience in API Test Automation
• Experience with Azure DevOps, or equivalent, for CI/CD pipeline and using Source control tools like TFS, Azure Git
• Used performance test tooling such as JMeter, K6, Neo load, Azure Load Tester (The key is to be adaptable to the situation/tool/technology)
• Experienced in various types