Principal Performance Test Engineer in Scottsdale, AZ at Discount Tire Corporate Careers

Job Description

Here at Discount Tire, we celebrate the spirit of our people with extraordinary pride and enthusiasm. Our business has been growing for more than 60 years and now is the best time in our history to join us. We are opening more locations every year and we are always looking for qualified individuals to join us in our growth. We are a company that promotes from within, both in our retail and corporate operations. 

Even more exciting is that Discount Tire IT is moving towards a cloud first strategy embracing cloud technologies like AWS, Mulesoft and Salesforce to ensure faster time to market. The Principal Performance Test Engineer designs and architects performance test environments. Ensures test plans, test requirements and test cases Performance, Stress and Endurance testing of application and system related requirements are created. Defines and tracks quality assurance metrics including, but not limited to, defects, defect counts, test results and test status. Ensures performance testing strategies for projects / programs are designed.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Develops and executes automated performance tests, analyzes and reports results.
• Provides expert insight into performance strategies and tools.
• Ensures the creation and execution of Performance Testing; publishes Test results and data, including but not limited to, monitoring data, Application & Server logs; audits the results of junior members; ensure sign-off of the test strategy; provides performance tuning guidance to stakeholders.
• Analyzes performance test execution reports; identifies performance bottle necks; recommends tuning opportunities to stakeholders.
• Directs test strategy and scope; audits overall compliance; interfaces with stakeholders to ensure test strategy viability.
• Ensures performance coverage meets requirements; audits test scenarios.
• Negotiates and determines scope and timelines for intake of new project candidates.
• Ensures test environments are proactively investigated and technical issues are resolved.
• Ensures status reports are created and meet standards / requirements; reviews status reports and identifies Continuous Strategic Improvement opportunities.
• Ensures test validity is evaluated; proactively identifies potential performance challenges.
• Ensures impact analysis is created and assessed; evaluates risk of application design in collaboration with architecture.
• Ensures Performance Test readiness; works with environment coordinator and management to handle provisioning and budget.
• Technical application administrator for performance testing tools; identifies gaps in functionality and budget for tool replacement and extension.
• Ensures application infrastructure tuning is researched and analyzed for optimal performance; works with stakeholders to identify coding improvements and best practices.
• Captures production traffic at regular intervals; updates test scenarios to ensure viability and accuracy; utilizes modeled traffic data to make inferences for future product performance testing.
• Ensures environments are designed appropriately to generate load against the application under test.
• Ensures SLAs and critical transactions for applications and systems are identified.
• Performs quality audits across various IT application; ensures quality standards, procedures and methodologies are being followed.
• Mentors and trains junior team members.
• Stays current with the latest industry technologies, trends and issues in area of specialty.
• Assists employees, vendors or other customers by answering questions related to performance testing processes, procedures and services.
• Other duties as assigned