Technical Test Analyst

Company Description

Arηs is a fully independent group of companies specialized in managing complex IT projects and systems for large organisations, focusing on state-of-the-art software development, business intelligence and infrastructure services.

We are composed of 13 entities across 8 countries that are unified by the Arηs Group, with more than 1750 consultants.

This corporate structure enables us to respond quickly to market changes and customer requests, and to communicate and make decisions without layers of bureaucracy.

Our success can be attributed to the synergy among our nine complementary entities, combined with our methodologies, which are based on the Rational Unified Process (RUP) and the Scrum agile software development framework.

Established in 2016, the Greek entity Arηs Developments Hellas aims to extend Arηs Group activities dedicated to the European market providing high-quality services in Software Development, covering the entire application development lifecycle: starting with user requirements, business process redesign and specifications, to continue with development, testing and application maintenance.

Job Description

• Development and execution of Performance/Load Testing, Stress Testing, Endurance Testing, Capacity Testing
• Definition of performance goals/thresholds/acceptance criteria with related tests
• Analysis and reporting on performance test executions identifying performance bottlenecks and advising on improvements.
• Support in definition/definition of test plans regarding non-functional quality characteristics (e.g., technical security, efficiency or reliability)
• Non-functional testing of ICT infrastructure and data migration projects
• Creation of large and complex test data sets (structured and unstructured data) and management of test data
• Support to operational acceptance testing and piloting activities
• Identification, re-testing of and reporting on defects
• Reporting of test results

Qualifications

• Bachelor plus 10 years of relevant experience.
• Working knowledge of English B2 or higher Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (self-assessment).
• At least 9 years of experience in the area of Software Quality Assurance in the role of Technical Test Analyst
• More than 5 years of experience in performance testing of different kinds of systems (web apps, web services, middleware, databases), protocols and technologies (HTTP, REST, gRPC, SOAP, JDBC)
• More than 1 year of experience of working in Kubernetes environments
• Ability to define performance goals/thresholds/acceptance criteria with related tests, based on product conditions, standards and regulations
• Good knowledge of C# or JAVA programming language or scripting languages (python, groovy) in the context of performance testing
• Good knowledge of developing and executing Performance/Load Testing, Stress Testing, Endurance Testing, Capacity Testing
• Good knowledge in analysing and reporting on test executions including identification of performance bottlenecks and advising on improvements
• Good knowledge of the open-source Apache JMeter performance test tool for developing, executing and analysing load test scenarios
• Excellent knowledge in the creation and management of high volumes of test data
• Good knowledge of containerized environments (Kubernetes) including monitoring tools and Open Tracing.
• Excellent knowledge in networking, load balancers, firewalls, middleware (like queuing systems), databases
• Good knowledge and display of prerequisites of working in an Agile Team implementing Scrum (e.g. teamwork, clear communication)

Desirable

• Good knowledge of open-source performance testing tools other than Apache JMeter, like Taurus, K6 or Locust
• Good knowledge of Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana (ELK technology stack)
• Good knowledge of creating reports/dashboards with InfluxDB and Grafana
• Good knowledge of executing perf tests in continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) pipelines
• Good knowledge on testing other non-functional aspects like (Technica) Security, Reliability, Robustness, Recoverability
• Good knowledge on testing with Remote Procedure Call (RPC) frameworks / APIs, such as gRPC
• Capability of integration in an international/multi-cultural environment, rapid self-starting capability and experience in working in team