Automation lead with Performance at Tata Consultancy Services

Technical/Functional Skills:

• Maintain, design, and implement test automation frameworks for a continuous integration and execution model.
• Define, develop, and implement automation best practices and standards and procedures.
• Create and design the testing approach (Unit, Functional, Integration, System, User).
• Create automation tests by analyzing user stories, acceptance criteria, creating initial test designs, writing scripts, installing the automation testing protocols, and reporting results.
• Develop a repeatable process for designing, developing, and executing scripts.
• Conduct tests, document, and analyze test results, and present findings to development teams.
• Preparing reports on all aspects related to software testing carried out.
• Automation Performance Testing Lead: responsible for testing the scalability, performance, and availability of  e-commerce platform.
• Load and Stress Testing: Design and execute load and stress testing scenarios using K6 and JMeter to validate the platform's ability to handle increased loads.
• Performance Tuning: Identify performance bottlenecks, conduct root cause analysis, and implement performance tuning strategies to enhance system responsiveness.
• Microservices Architecture: Evaluate and fine-tune the performance of  microservices architecture to handle increased traffic loads.
• Scalability Assessment: Assess the scalability of the platform, recommending infrastructure upgrades or optimizations as needed to accommodate growth.
• Monitoring and Alerting: Implement and manage robust monitoring and alerting solutions using tools like Splunk, New relic  to ensure real-time visibility into platform performance.
• Observability Validation: Validate observability practices to provide actionable insights into system behavior, helping to identify and address performance issues proactively.
• Performance Metrics: Establish key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics to measure, monitor, and report on platform performance.
• Documentation and Reporting: Maintain comprehensive documentation of performance test plans, results, monitoring configurations, and recommendations, providing regular reports to stakeholders.
• Collaboration: Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including development, quality assurance, and arch teams, to ensure alignment on performance goals and requirements.
• Strong analysis, problem solving, and troubleshooting skills
• Strong verbal and written communications skills
• Strong in providing short term and long terms techincal solution for the performance problems

Experience Required:

• 6 + years of experience in performance engineering, with a focus on e-commerce platforms.
• Understanding of automation testing and experience writing automation tests for REST APIs,
• Experience with writing automation tests using one or more of the following: Postman, Playwright, SpecFlow, Selenium, Appium, ect.
• Cross channel performance experience is a plus, Site, Mobile, POS, Kiosk
• End2End Customer journey performance scenario experience is required
• Experience with performance testing tools such as K6 and JMeter.c

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Maintain, design, and implement test automation frameworks for a continuous integration and execution model.
• Create automation tests by analyzing user stories, acceptance criteria, creating initial test designs, writing scripts, installing the automation testing protocols, and reporting results
• Load and Stress Testing: Design and execute load and stress testing scenarios using K6 and JMeter to validate the platform's ability to handle increased loads.
• Performance Tuning: Identify performance bottlenecks, conduct root cause analysis, and implement performance tuning strategies to enhance system responsiveness.
• Involve in Agile ceremonies.
• Coach and mentor, follow up, and feedback of team members.

• Willing to go an extra mile to complete things right and fast.