QA Analyst

Analyze business and system requirements to design performance test plans, test scenarios and executes using performance tools.

Assists with gathering of performance requirements by analyzing production and system logs.

Contributes to test plans, test requirements, test scenarios, and test data for use during all testing phases of the software development lifecycle, for new and existing software systems/products.

Leads test case reviews, design reviews, and change control activities ensuring that performance test plans and scenarios fully exercise every aspect of the product.

Certifies each release by performing impact analysis on staging environments.

Performs impact analysis of any infrastructure changes including OS and Platform upgrades, maintenance releases, and hardware upgrades.

Performs fail-over and recovery scenarios and documents the performance metrics.

Analyze results for load, stress, volume and endurance testing.

Recommends technical approach based on performance test results and collect data to build benchmarks to provide optimal performance levels.

Defines standards, methods, and procedures for performance testing activities and produces and presents formal test plans; leads the performance testing effort for assigned projects.