QA Performance Testing Specialist

**Performance Testing Specialist**

**About Imperva**

**The Opportunity**

**Responsibilities**
- Collaborate with the product management and engineering teams to assist in defining the performance requirements for new product releases
- Develop a comprehensive performance test strategies with the approach, metrics, high-level benchmarks, and baselines to determine basic requirements for the performance testing systems
- Design, implement, and maintain performance test frameworks, environment setups, and performance testing tools
- Create and execute manual/automated performance, scalability, longevity, and stress test scenarios to validate the product readiness for production
- Drive the overall automation design for continuous integration and delivery
- Investigate results for analytical components such as core and memory loads, response times, network bandwidth, and iops
- Report issues using the defect tracking tool and perform defect root cause analysis
- Track, communicate, and document task progress, status, and key performance metrics
- Publish performance test result reports with risk analysis and recommendations on quality improvements to the engineering leadership
- Recommend test processes and tools improvement to increase the testing quality
- Provide support and mentorship to junior performance testers
- Strong interpersonal and leadership skills
- You want to make a difference by using the best technology to implement successful solutions
- Ability to learn and adopt new technologies quickly
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
- Your friends describe you as independent and reliable
- You thrive in a versatile and dynamic team environment
- You have the ability to resolve technical challenges and are comfortable with ambiguity

**Technical Skills**
- 6+ years of experience of professional experience in quality assurance
- 3+ years of performance testing experience with various testing types: Load, stress, scalability, spike, volume, and endurance
- Good knowledge and practical experience in hybrid performance and load tools
- Experience with leading performance testing projects, including building infrastructures from scratch to support them
- Good programming/scripting skills: Python, Java, C++
- Advanced experience in Linux shell scripting and administration, including various monitoring tools and utilities: htop, iostat, nethogs, iptraf-ng, rsyslog
- Good knowledge and practical experience in various cloud platforms: AWS, GCP, Azure
- Knowledge and experience in relational and non-relational databases: SQL, MongoDB
- Experience identifying memory usage, connection issues, and bottleneck problems in various technologies such as databases, web servers, and cloud infrastructures
- Ability to create datasets and isolate components in more extensive systems
- Good experience in continuous integration platforms
- Strong understanding of the software QA methodologies and processes
- Knowledge of Agile, Hybrid SDLC methodologies

**_ At this time, Imperva will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position._**

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Imperva is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, pregnancy, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, protected veteran status, medical condition or disability, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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