QA Performance Test Engineer

Department: Engineering
Location: Beetsterzwaag or Amsterdam

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Job Summary:

The QA Test team is part of Engineering and responsible for ensuring and improving the quality of the Asset Control products. The QA Engineer plays a leading role in ensuring the overall quality of a number of these products. As a QA Engineer you are able to develop and maintain the QA test frameworks, functional and performance tests and run the automated test systems. You’ll work closely with the R&D engineers and technical writers but have an independent role in assuring product quality.

Main Tasks & Responsibilities:

• Design, create, execute, automate and document performance tests;
• Analyze performance and system resource behavior for the AC products and tune the software and hardware for optimal performance;
• Develop robust, flexible and maintainable software that can be used to execute and add new performance tests easily;
• Communicate performance test results and knowledge on how to tune the environment for optimal performance, both verbally and in written reports;
• Assist clients in tuning their environment for optimal performance of the AC products.

Required Knowledge & Experience:

• Degree in Computer Science or other technical discipline;
• In-depth knowledge of at minimum one database (Oracle, Sybase or DB2);
• The ability to analyze system and network behavior (e.g. memory, CPU, I/O) in a Unix environment;
• Knowledge of Unix Operating Systems (Linux and Solaris);
• Knowledge of and experience with Shell scripting;
• Knowledge of and experience with test methods and techniques for performance testing;
• Experience in writing test documentation i.e. performance test plans, reports;
• Knowledge of Java, C, Perl and AWK is a plus;
• Experience within the financial industry is a plus.

Specific Competencies:

• Analytical thinking competency;
• Excellent communication skills;
• Fluent in English;
• Persistent, and driven to complete tasks.

Seniority Level (years of relevant experience):
Has been active in a comparable function in a software development environment for at least 3 years.

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