Senior Performance Testing Engineer

Centene Corporation

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

You could be the one who changes everything for our 28 million members by using technology to improve health outcomes around the world. As a diversified, national organization, Centene's technology professionals have access to competitive benefits including a fresh perspective on workplace flexibility. Position Purpose: Implements and executes all forms of performance testing services using automated testing tools to identify system bottlenecks and to ensure system reliability, capacity and scalability. Designs, develops, and writes performance test scripts and applies performance engineering best practices to drive innovation of performance engineering services. Optimizes the overall test process to attain efficiency for the enterprise. Designs, builds, tests and deploys effective testing solutions which measure the performance of internally developed products and alerts of any discrepancies or defects Applies automated tools in testing applications across all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) Creates charts of performance test results for further investigation and showcase impact on performance to stakeholders Translates performance specifications/requirements/criteria into effective test designs and test cases Abilities to conduct performance testing within Agile process Supports the test team by recommending tools and processes to improve performance of internally developed products Identifies regression testing needs by creating and maintaining an Automated Performance Test Suite Provides timely project-related data as required in applicable systems. Ensure timely reporting and responses to stakeholders Provides leadership, mentoring and technical oversight within team Performs other duties as assigned Complies with all policies and standards

Requirements

A Bachelor's degree in a quantitative or business field (e.g., statistics, mathematics, engineering, computer science) and Requires 4 – 6 years of related experience. Or equivalent experience acquired through accomplishments of applicable knowledge, duties, scope and skill reflective of the level of this position.
Knowledge of Software Development; Software Development Life Cycle especially with US Healthcare domain knowledge
Knowledge of Neoload or other industry standard Performance testing tool, Chaos/Resiliency Engineering
Experience with Programming Concepts; Programming Tools [Python and Java]
Knowledge of CI/CD tools, App monitoring tools like Dynatrace, Splunk
Experience with developing performance test automation suite for microservice based applications that use cloud technologies such as Containers, Kubernetes, Kafka, Object store, etc.
Knowledge of IVR testing tools such as Cyara
Experience with development of application changes, testing the changes and driving continuous delivery transformation within Scrum teams
Knowledge of AWS
Seeks to acquire knowledge in area of specialty
Ability to identify basic problems and procedural irregularities, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions
Ability to work independently
Demonstrated analytical skills
Demonstrated project management skills
Demonstrates a high level of accuracy, even under pressure
Demonstrates excellent judgment and decision making skills

Responsibilities

Implements and executes all forms of performance testing services using automated testing tools to identify system bottlenecks and to ensure system reliability, capacity and scalability.
Designs, develops, and writes performance test scripts and applies performance engineering best practices to drive innovation of performance engineering services.
Optimizes the overall test process to attain efficiency for the enterprise.
Designs, builds, tests and deploys effective testing solutions which measure the performance of internally developed products and alerts of any discrepancies or defects
Applies automated tools in testing applications across all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
Creates charts of performance test results for further investigation and showcase impact on performance to stakeholders
Translates performance specifications/requirements/criteria into effective test designs and test cases
Conducts performance testing within Agile process
Supports the test team by recommending tools and processes to improve performance of internally developed products
Identifies regression testing needs by creating and maintaining an Automated Performance Test Suite
Provides timely project-related data as required in applicable systems.
Ensures timely reporting and responses to stakeholders
Provides leadership, mentoring and technical oversight within team
Performs other duties as assigned
Complies with all policies and standards