IA-DOM-IWD-BA6-QA Performance Tester

Job Description

PLEASE SUBMIT LOCAL CANDIDIDATES TO THIS POSITION. OUT OF TOWN CANDIDIDATES MUST AGREE TO RELOCATE. ONLY SUBMIT RESOURCES THAT ARE ABLE TO BE ONSITE DAY 1. THIS POSITION REQURES RESOURCE TO WORK ONSITE A MINNIMUM OF 2 DAYS PER WEEK. NO FULL REMOTE OPTION. THE EXPECTATION IS THAT THIS RESOURCE LIVE/WORK IN THE DES MOINES METRO DURING ASSIGNMENT.

Iowa Workforce Development (IWD) is a state agency committed to providing re-employment services for job seekers. We are looking to hire an experienced Quality Analyst for our Unemployment Insurance (UI) Tax Modernization Project. This individual will be part of a talented software team that works on mission-critical applications using Agile methodologies. The project aims to modernize IWD’s UI Tax system by re-architecting its components to industry leading architecture and frameworks, with the goal of providing better service to both the agency staff and the end-users while positioning the agency for future technological improvements. The ideal candidate is a leader and strong team contributor who is eager to learn and develop their craft as a software professional and will find great satisfaction in the patient pursuit of excellence.

Looking for resources that have experience using Apache JMeter

This individual will be responsible for preparing test plans, test cases, and test scripts, while executing tests to ensure the Tax applications are secure, scalable, robust, and high performing in nature.

Skills/Experience Required:
Requirements
• Experience testing modern frameworks, both desktop and mobile applications
• Experience testing APIs
• Experience developing test strategy for functional testing
• Experience developing and executing test plans
• Experience processing test results, compiling/analyzing statistical data, reporting defects/errors
• Strong understanding of performance best practices including JVM settings
• Experience drafting quality assurance standards, policies and procedures
• Ability to lead performance optimization efforts with a strong command of complex performance issues and the ability to direct component owners (network, database, appdev, server OS/WAS, storage, etc.)
• Leverage profiling tools (i.e. Dynatrace & AppDynamics) to analyze and define performance characteristics of an application, recommend enhancements, and trouble shoot bottlenecks
• Performance trouble shooting (heap dump & thread dump analysis)
• Performance results preparation and presentation for large efforts
• Proficient in application monitoring and performance testing tools like AppDynamics, Apache Jmeter
• Proficient in tools like Jira, SoapUI, Postman, Git, BitBucket, SQL
• Demonstrate strong verbal and written communication skills