Key Responsibilities

The Performance Test Lead will work with internal IT customers to collect and understand manual, automated, and performance test requirements, then convert these requirements into test plans and track deliverables to completion. Responsible for planning, coordination, developing, and maintaining test automation frameworks, execution, and continuous improvement of the Performance Test lifecycle. Leverage QA/performance standards and apply best practices across various internal and enterprise applications while utilizing and leading global teams. The Performance Test Lead will drive quality initiatives across IT, proliferate QA methodologies, and ensure that governance mechanisms are in place to drive adoption. In addition, the Performance Test Lead will:

• Support full cycle integration and disaster recovery efforts across on-premise and cloud infrastructures.  
• Participate in new technology evaluations for testing, test automation, and process management. 
• Manage large environments with complex configurations, and several software components, ensuring versioning and patching aligned with current compatibility matrices.
• Participate in evaluation and recommendation of patches, point releases, major upgrades, and new systems.
• Supervise work of on and off-shore resources.
  • Perform Quality/peer reviews of their work product or create an equivalent methodology to ensure quality standards.
• Perform project management duties, project scoping, budget and resource planning.
• Determine workload models and demographics Establish cross-platform system monitoring strategies to capture and analyze full-stack performance, evaluate capabilities, and report anomalies through a predefined process.
• Complete root cause analysis of outages or incident trends (often working with managed services partner). 
• Adhere to service management processes and procedures to meet customer service level agreements and maintain customer satisfaction.
• Recommend preventative actions, Plan and manage projects to ensure effective and efficient execution in line with established processes and guidelines and guardrails of scope, timeline, budget, and quality
• Mentor and train team members in product functionality, development, and testing guidelines, tools, and methodologies 

Functional Knowledge

• Demonstrates conceptual and practical expertise in the software development lifecycle, lifecycle management, QA, Test Automation and Performance Test disciplines.
• Experience not limited to NeoLoad, Worksoft, MicroFocus Performance Center, MF-ALM, MF-UFT, Jenkins, JIRA, ElasticSearch, APM & monitoring strategies and tool integrations with expansive knowledge of QA related approaches.
• Strong technical performance testing experience required including script development and debugging, scenario design with integrations, execution and analysis through problem identification and resolution. Be able to provide root cause analysis for problems found.   

Business Expertise

• Knowledgeable of best practices and how testing integrates with other groups, being able to communicate and lead requirement definition discussions with business teams to identify test objectives.  

Leadership

• Acts as a resource for colleagues with less experience; may lead small projects with manageable risks and resource requirements. Be a conduit to connect resources that can benefit each other and make the organization more effective.  

Problem Solving

• Able to solve complex problems; takes a new perspective on existing solutions; exercises judgment based on the analysis of multiple sources of information.

Impact

• Impacts a range of customer, operational, project or service activities within own team and other related teams; works within broad guidelines and policies.

Interpersonal Skills

• Easily explains difficult or sensitive information; works to build consensus.
• Is a highly skilled listener and communicator; tailors messages to an audience.
• Strong English written and verbal skills a must.
• Effectively leads teams.
• Builds relationships with tool providers and suppliers.
• Proactively removes roadblocks.

Qualifications

Education:

Bachelor's Degree

Skills

Certifications:

Languages:

Years of Experience:

7 - 10 Years

Work Experience:

Additional Information

Travel:

Yes, 10% of the Time

Relocation Eligible:

No

Applied Materials is committed to diversity in its workforce including Equal Employment Opportunity for Minorities, Females, Protected Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities.