Performance Test Lead

Fuelled by strategic investment in technology and innovation, Client Technology seeks to drive growth opportunities and solve complex business problems for our clients through building a robust platform for business and powerful product engine that are integral to innovation at scale. You will work with technologists and business specialists, blending EY’s deep industry knowledge and innovative ideas with our platforms, capabilities, and technical expertise. As a champion for change and growth, you will be at the forefront of integrating emerging technologies from AI to Data Analytics into every corner of what we do at EY. That means more growth for you, exciting learning opportunities, career choices, and the chance to make a real impact.

The opportunity

The selected candidate will:

Engage with multi-functional and multi-regional teams to create impactful products and services demonstrating ground-breaking technology and tools. This also comes with the prospect to flourish in an organization that nourishes innovation, develops creativity and encourages ideas for the future. Quite some incentive to join us, right?

Your key responsibilities

• Lead the delivery of testing activities, plans and processes for complex products or services ensuring product quality. Also, facilitates resource planning and resolution of issues that may impede the test effort and drives continuous improvement.

• Responsible for the design, development, and support of test scripts for non-functional requirements.

• Lead the identification of the test scope and test environment set-up, prepares test plans, identifies relevant metrics and keeps track of required effort for large initiatives

• Review test reports and act on recommendations for product or design changes

• Drive the evaluation, recommendation, and implementation of testing procedures and strategies ensuring alignment to non-functional requirements

• Supports in identifying product quality risks based on the high-level solution architecture

• Develop trusted relationships with other engineering groups and key business stakeholders to evaluate, recommend and implement testing procedures for products, systems, components or modifications

Skills and attributes for success

• An ideal candidate will have a thorough understanding of testing lifecycle, agile frameworks and knowledge of Quality Management techniques.

• Strong leadership and team management skills with experience in guiding diverse teams.

• Broad understanding of AI testing

To qualify for the role you must have

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, IT, or related field and more than 12 years of relevant work experience

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills and ability to work within a team and in collaboration with different teams

• Other Strengths required are Customer centricity, Innovative Thinking, Agility and Intercultural Sensitivity

• Experience working virtually in a globally dispersed team

• Project management experience in an engineering / test environment

• Good understanding on Performance testing concepts, Agile methodology and Knowledge on cloud Infrastructure and database concepts

• Should be able to implement performance test strategy and guide the team.

• Experience with different performance testing tools like Load Runner and JMeter

• Knowledge at scripting/coding level

• Strong programming experience in Java/Python/C.

• Proven experience working with different APM tools like Azure App Insights, App Dynamics, Dynatrace – Deep knowledge at analysing performance issues and finding bottlenecks.

• Experience in profiling tools like JProfiler, Eclipse MAT is desired.

• Good understanding of Cloud Architecture specifically on Azure and/or AWS and/or Google Cloud and capacity planning of the Infra.

• Leverage AI for predictive analytics, intelligent test script generation and performance bottleneck detection.

• Experience in leading multiple Testing teams and deliver quality product by implementing Testing standards and processes.

• Excellent written and verbal communication and team management skills

• Proficiency in handling Key Performance Indicators and Metrics.