Performance Tester
Excellent opportunity for a Performance Tester to join a rapidly expanding, cutting-edge online company based in Cork City.
Looking for someone to join a team involved in the design, implementation, development and maintenance of performance testing.
Overseas Candidates Welcomed!
What does the Company do?
- Develops and supports sophisticated online sports exchange delivering a high-performance system to users in Asia and Europe.
- Utilises the latest and best technologies including: Big Data and Open Source technologies such as Spring, Hibernate, Messaging, REST, SOAP
Why should I be interested in this job?
- Starting salary of 60-65K + Pension + Bonus + Health Ins
- Fast paced, expanding company which offers huge scope for progression within the company, while utilising the latest technologies
- Company is employee focused and encourage creativity from employees allowing you to take ownership of your projects.
What will I be doing?
- Providing input into Performance Test strategy and approach – giving up-front input for setting realistic initial performance goals for the project for development to work to.
- Implement performance and nonfunctional test plans
- Liaise with the development and infrastructure teams to define performance objectives and resolve performance issues.
- Produce recommendations on system configuration & optimisation, and hardware requirements.
- Research potential tools (Proprietary & Open Source) to facilitate performance testing and make recommendations as to suitability for use in differing projects.
What do I need to get this job?
- Knowledge of load and performance testing tools such as JMeter, HP LoadRunner, or The Grinder or similar
- Commercial experience in a testing environment developing nonfunctional / performance tests against documented APIs
- Strong experience identifying bottlenecks across various layers of application stacks (client, network, web services, database backend)
- Familiarity of Linux/UNIX command line
- Knowledge of relational databases, ideally MySQL
- A good understanding of networking technologies and infrastructure
- Knowledge of Python is advantageous but not essential
If this role is what you are looking for simply click on Apply or contact Emma Thorpe directly on emma @ allenrec.com
I will get back to all successful applicants within 48 hours!