Role: QA Tester (Performance &Automation)
Location: NYC Area – Onsite
Duration: Long term Project
Key Skills & Qualifications
Mandatory Skills
· Strong experience in test automation.
· Hands-on experience with manual testing.
· Strong expertise in LoadRunner and JMeter.
· Experience in performance engineering, including:
· Workload modeling
· Performance monitoring
· Test environment setup
· Capacity planning
· Bottleneck identification and analysis
· Performance results analysis and reporting
· Strong SQL and backend testing skills.
Experience with:
· API testing
· Integration testing
· Database testing
· File testing
· Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.
· Strong communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.
· Certification
· ISTQB Foundation Level certification is preferred.
· Advanced ISTQB certifications are a plus.
· Certifications are considered beneficial as evidence of demonstrated testing expertise but are not mandatory.
Healthcare Knowledge
· Healthcare experience is preferred but not mandatory.
· Candidates with healthcare payer experience will be given preference, particularly those with exposure to:
Facets
HRP
Member-related systems and testing
Provider-related systems and testing
Enrollment
Healthcare integration testing
Key Responsibilities:
· The successful candidate will contribute to the organization's Quality Engineering initiatives and will be responsible for:
· Establishing and maintaining performance testing environments.
· Designing, developing, and executing performance and load test scripts.
· Developing and maintaining automated performance test suites.
· Performing workload modeling and defining performance test scenarios.
· Executing performance, load, and scalability tests using LoadRunner and JMeter.
· Monitoring application and infrastructure performance during testing.
· Analyzing test results and identifying performance bottlenecks.
· Providing recommendations to improve application scalability, reliability, and stability.
· Performing backend and database validation using strong SQL skills.
· Supporting API, integration, database, and file-based testing.
· Supporting test planning, test execution, defect management, and release validation activities.
· Collaborating with developers, QA engineers, business teams, and other stakeholders to identify and resolve quality and performance issues.
· Contributing to continuous improvement of automation and performance testing practices within the Quality Engineering function.
Additional Details
· Automation skills are mandatory. Manual testing will be one of the candidate's responsibilities but will not be the primary focus.
· The candidate should be capable of taking ownership of the end-to-end performance testing lifecycle, including environment setup, test planning, scripting, execution, monitoring, analysis, reporting, and recommendations.
· Experience in healthcare payer environments is highly desirable.
· Strong communication and collaboration skills are essential.
· Candidates must be willing to work onsite in the NYC area 2–3 days per week.