Company Description
At Xplor, we help businesses thrive by making life simple for daily activities with a recurring nature. We do that by offering smart software, payments, and commerce-enabling solutions across five “everyday life” verticals: Education, Health and Fitness, Boutique Wellness, Field Services and Personal Services.You’ll join our Health & Fitness team where we work with all types of businesses. Leisure. Parks and recreation. Community centers. Gyms. Health clubs - you name it. Whether small and independent or large franchises, we build everything they need to run their business, motivate their customers and build lasting fitness communities.
Job Description
Key Responsibilities:
- Analyse Business Scenarios: Understand and analyse business scenarios and non-functional requirements related to performance SLAs of the application.
- Design Performance Testing Architecture: Create and document the overall performance testing architecture and framework, including reusable components, best practices, and guidelines for integrating performance testing into the Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC).
- Workload Modelling: Design workload models, execute, and monitor performance tests to identify system bottlenecks.
- Standardize Metrics Reports: Develop standardized metrics reports for measuring and monitoring system performance.
- Ongoing Performance Monitoring: Implement strategies for real-time performance monitoring, including setting up monitoring tools and creating alerts for abnormal performance behaviour.
- Guidance and Training: Provide guidance and training to testing teams on performance testing methodologies, tools, and best practices to ensure consistent and effective testing across projects.
- Performance Testing Processes: Define and standardize performance testing processes and best practices across various projects.
- Test Script Creation: Develop realistic performance test scripts that simulate various user scenarios and system loads.
- Collaboration: Collaborate with testing experts, architects, and development teams to ensure a holistic approach to performance testing.
- Performance Test Plans: Create effective performance test plans for web and mobile applications using tools like JMeter.
- Script Execution: Script and execute performance tests to simulate realistic user behaviour and load levels, including parameterizing scripts and correlating dynamic values.
- Non-Functional Requirements Analysis: Analyse non-functional requirements related to application performance and validate server responses using assertions.
- Test Results Analysis: Analyse test results to identify performance bottlenecks and collaborate with development teams to troubleshoot and resolve issues.
- Framework Development: Develop and maintain performance testing frameworks and best practices.
- System Resource Monitoring: Monitor system resources during test execution to identify potential bottlenecks.
- Reporting: Create detailed performance test reports and present findings to stakeholders.
- Capacity Planning: Participate in capacity planning and performance tuning activities.
- Industry Trends: Stay up-to-date with industry trends and emerging technologies in performance testing.
- Mentorship: Mentor junior QA engineers in performance testing methodologies and tools.
Tools and Technologies:
- JMeter
- Octoperf
- FloodIO
- BlazeMeter
- PerforMon
- Azure Monitoring Dashboards
- Azure DevOps
- SQL Server
Responsibilities
- Create effective performance test plans for web and mobile applications using JMeter.
- Script and execute performance tests to simulate realistic user behavior and load levels.
- Parameterize scripts to simulate different user scenarios and load levels.
- Correlate dynamic values from server responses and use them in subsequent requests.
- Analyze non-functional requirements under test, related to application performance.
- Validate server responses and ensure that the application is working correctly using assertions.
- Design effective test plans that simulate realistic user behavior and load levels and provide meaningful performance metrics.
- Analyze test results and identify performance bottlenecks.
- Collaborate with development teams to troubleshoot and resolve performance issues.
- Develop and maintain performance testing frameworks and best practices.
- Monitor system resources during test execution to identify potential bottlenecks.
- Create detailed performance test reports and present findings to stakeholders.
- Participate in capacity planning and performance tuning activities.
- Stay up-to-date with industry trends and emerging technologies in performance testing.
- Mentor junior QA engineers in performance testing methodologies and tools.
Qualifications
Qualifications
- Strong understanding of JMeter and performance testing concepts.
- Sound knowledge of HTTP Protocol, request-response cycle, HTTP methods, headers, and Regular Expressions.
- Strong analytical skills to analyze performance test results.
- Solid understanding writing scripting code, Java, JavaScript or Groovy.
Desired Qualifications
- Familiarity with tools like Flood.io or Blazemeter for load generation.
- At least 3 years of Solid understanding in Software Quality Assurance and Performance Testing.
- Sound understanding working in a CI/CD and DevOps environment.
- Performance Testing Certifications.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
Education
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science/Engineering or equivalent work experience
Additional Information
To learn more about us, our brands and products, please visit:
https://www.xplortechnologies.com/
Xplor is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. Information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.We kindly ask you to apply through our careers portal or external job boards (LinkedIn, Naukri, Indeed, etc) only.
Please don't send your application via email. They will not be forwarded.
More about us
We're the first global platform combining SaaS with embedded payments, and tools to help businesses grow and succeed. We offer software solutions in fast-growing ‘everyday life’ verticals: Education, Fitness & Wellbeing, Field Services and Personal Services – and a global, cloud-based payments processing platform. Xplor Technologies serves over 106,000 customers that processed over $37 billion in payments, operating across 20 markets in 2023.
Good to know
To be considered for employment, you must be legally authorised to work in the location (country) you're applying for. Xplor does not sponsor visas, either at the time of hire or at any later time. To learn more about us and our products, please visit www.xplortechnologies.com/careers. We also invite you to check out our Candidate FAQs for more information about our recruitment process www.xplortechnologies.com/recruitment-faqs.Please note that we do not exclusively rely on artificial intelligence (AI) when making hiring, promotion or any other employment decisions.
We don’t have any AI tools in place that are capable of making these kinds of hiring decisions for us.Xplor is committed to providing equal opportunities in employment and creating an inclusive work environment. We provide equal opportunities to all our employees and to all eligible applicants for employment in our company. We do not unfairly discriminate on any ground, including race, religion, color, ancestry, marital status, gender, sexual orientation, age, nationality, ethnic origin, disability or any other category protected by applicable law.
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