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About Foodies
You know New World, PAK’nSAVE and Four Square right? That’s us! We are one of NZ’s biggest companies, you just don’t know it, because in true Kiwi style – we are humble about it (apart from right now maybe)! Our Support Centre is 1,000 people strong, which includes 300+ IT employees, who all play a vital role in supporting our network of 330+ stores across the North Island.
About the role
This Performance Specialist role is essential to ensure that our customers have a great online shopping experience. In this role you will be part of a customer focused, high performing IT Testing team, 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.
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.
About you
We’re looking for another enthusiastic and passionate IT professional to join the team. You will have testing experience on complex projects and 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:
- Experience as a performance test engineer
- Ability to create performance testing frameworks from scratch
- Experience designing, developing and deploying 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
- Great communication skills, being good team player and able to consistently deliver solutions that matter to business
Desirable but not essential:
- Any ISTQB Certification
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We’re proud to have a focus on Diversity & Inclusion here at Foodies and welcome applications from you all regardless of who you are or what you do. We welcome courageous behaviour, encourage togetherness, inspire our people to be their best selves in our Foodies whānau, but most importantly we celebrate our people - our taonga, every day for being uniquely them.