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- Work with NZ’s largest Grocery Retailer (think PAK’nSAVE, New World, Gilmours, Four Square)
- Join a future focussed IT team
- Influence Kiwi’s shopping experience!
About the role
This role is essential to ensure that our customers have a great online shopping experience.
As a Performance Specialist you will be part of a customer focused, high performing IT Testing team, being responsible for designing, developing, configuring, and maintaining Performance Test Automation Frameworks and scripts.
In this role you will test, perform, and define performance tests based on requirements within sprint and automate them.
You will contribute to a high performing culture and build Performance Testing capability within FSNI. Our key objective is to deliver best in class applications to drive our business forward.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Working with key stakeholders to identify and define the required performance test requirements, test environments and test scope.
- Determining expected test results and documenting them in test cases / automating where appropriate.
- Developing/maintaining a library of performance test scripts and procedures in a way that they can be reused as efficiently as possible.
- Testing the functionality developed within Sprint, and making sure that it works as per business requirements.
- Escalate the risks and performance bottlenecks with stakeholders.
- Making sure that Test Automation standards & best practices are followed and that automated performance test cases are linked to the business requirements.
- Consolidating existing and building new performance testing automation frameworks from scratch in order to provide a consistent testing capability.
- Working closely with other members of Agile Development team.
About you
You’ll be enthusiastic and passionate about doing your job and constantly improving your knowledge. You will have testing experience on complex projects. You’ll have excellent communication skills as there are multiple touch points across the business.
To be successful in application for this position, you will have the following competencies:
Must have:
- At least 4 (four) years of experience as a performance test engineer
- Able to create performance testing frameworks from scratch
- Design, develop and deploy automated performance testing frameworks using tools, processes and methodologies including CI deployments on the likes of Bamboo, Jenkins, GitHub, Bitbucket, etc.
- Have expert knowledge on any one of the tools: JMeter, LoadRunner, Sitespeed.io, SoapUI/LoadUI/ReadyAPI or any other leading tools
- Good experience with Web/Mobile applications and API performance testing
- Understand business requirement and able to create required necessary performance benchmarks
- Articulate necessary performance risks, flag and communicate to the business
- Great communication skills, being good team player and able to consistently deliver solutions that matter to business
Desirable:
- Any ISTQB Certification
Who are we?
We’re a team of 25,000 New Zealanders in a growing network of 300+ stores (PAK’nSAVE, New World, Four Square, Gilmours & Fresh Collective). We serve over 1.3 million customers every week in the most awesome little country in the world!
This role will initially be located at our Head Office/Support Centre in Mount Roskill, and from March 2021 it will be located at our New Head Office at The Landing near Auckland Airport.