Test Specialist - Performance & Capacity Management

Job ID GBS-0610509 Job type Full-time Regular Work country Canada Position type Professional Work city - Any Posted 07-Oct-2013 Travel Up to 4 days a week (home on weekends-based on project requirements) Job area Consulting & Services Business group Global Business Services Job category IT Specialist Business unit AS Job role Test Specialist Job role skillset Performance and Capacity Management Commissionable/Sales-Incentive jobs only No

Job description

IBM Global Business Services helps top-tier clients solve their most complex business and technical issues. As a Test Specialist – Performance and Capacity Management , you will work with IBM and client solution teams to understand business problems and opportunities, recommend solutions that enable the organization to achieve its goals, and ensure proper translation of business requirements to IT solution requirements. With access to resources that only a global leader can provide, you will develop broad technical, industry and professional skills, work with a vast network of subject matter experts, and enjoy unparalleled career, training, and educational opportunities. The Test Specialist - Performance and Capacity Management has a primary focus in end-to-end Performance Engineering of the solution. You must be able to: Conduct and analyze application profile benchmark Troubleshoot application performance bottlenecks and problems Create test cases and execute performance load testing Produce required documentation regarding testing methodology and testing results Record, analyze, and report on test results and issues. Review existing code and make valuable suggestions to enhance existing projects. Interact with the product development team to understand product requirements. Review specifications and design documents to determine, prepare, estimate, and plan script specifications and requirements Ensure proper version control and configuration management of all test objects developed and test environments used Required skills include: Create Test Plans for the Projects Work as a Test Coordinator for all teams including gathering test estimates for the teams Status updates and reporting to Project Managers for the Testing progress Focal for all Testing requirements on the account Very good skills in HP QC tool Work experience should include 8-10 years working in a application development and systems integration environment with a deadline-driven atmosphere Knowledge of Performance Engineering methodologies Strong analytical and problem solving skills Knowledge of SDLC processes and methodologies Understanding of performance challenges in distributed architecture, how performance testing should be done Experience working with non-functional requirements to derive performance testing requirements and acceptance criteria Experience in interpretation of performance testing results Experience with load testing tools such as LoadRunner

Required Bachelor's Degree At least 2 years experience in include 2 years working in a application development and systems integration environment At least 2 years experience in Knowledge of Performance Engineering methodologies English: Fluent

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