Performance Test Engineer

Profile

Effectv, the advertising sales division of Comcast Cable, helps local, regional and national advertisers use the best of digital with the power of TV to grow their business. It provides multi-screen marketing solutions to make advertising campaigns more effective and easier to execute. Headquartered in New York with offices throughout the country, Effectv has a presence in 66 markets with nearly 35 million owned and represented subscribers. We're dedicated to helping our clients meet their business goals by connecting them with their customers through multiscreen television advertising. Working with companies from local startups to nationwide corporations, we provide support to help each business reach its target customers. By applying data to television advertising in new ways, we're able to bring our clients the best of digital media, coupled with the power of TV. To learn more, check out www.effectv.com.

Job Summary

Responsible for validating software solutions in various testing environments by design, development and execution of complex performance test plans. Contributes to the development of performance test strategies and the design of performance test practices. Collaborates with other Engineers to identify, reproduce and document defects, bugs, or problems. Maintains technical quality assurance and control systems and activities. Utilizes clearly defined standards, methods and procedures for inspecting, testing and evaluating the precision, accuracy and reliability of company products. Assists product support areas in gathering and analyzing data. Has in-depth experience, knowledge and skills in own discipline. Usually determines own work priorities. Acts as a resource for colleagues with less experience.

Job Description

Core Responsibilities

Experience leading, planning, executing and coordinating performance tests for medium to large scale enterprise systems

Expertise in Performance test plan creation, test script creation, load model generation

Experience in installing, maintaining and using monitoring tools including Dynatrace and Sitescope.

Experience in testing Kafka applications.

Experience with Test status report creation

Experience with Dev Ops/Agile development methodologies including Kanban and Scrum

Experience with debugging, performance profiling and optimization

Experience in Unix and/or Linux; Unix tools and basic Unix scripting languages

Experience with DB testing including writing SQL queries

Knowledge of test automation using Python, Java, Shell scripting and test automation frameworks with ability to also learn and contribute to test automation projects

Knowledge of Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment processes

Knowledge of Hadoop/Big Data technologies

Able to work proficiently both independently and in a team environment

Strong communication skills with both internal team members and external business stakeholders

Strong initiative to find ways to improve solutions, systems, and processes

Comfortable in an Agile fast paced environment with significant time pressures, multi-tasking without loss of integrity or negative impact on schedules

Excellent time management / task estimation skills

Possess and display in-depth knowledge of performance testing/engineering methodologies, concepts, skills, and their application in the area of specified engineering specialty.

Possess extensive experience in the design and development of complex performance test harnesses.

Writes and executes tests to validate products and software applications.

Contributes to the development of Quality Assurance test philosophies and methodologies. Identifies viable test strategies in order to support testing product functionality.

Collaborates with product and development teams to identify product and technical requirements.

Reviews and verifies requirements and design specifications for validity in overall product design, with an emphasis towards product testability and verification.

Ensures proper execution of regression test procedures and automated test suites and scripts. Participates in design, code and functional product reviews.

Works with other Quality Assurance Engineers or Software Engineers to identify, reproduce and document bugs or defects.

Assists in providing guidance and mentorship for junior-level Quality Assurance Engineers. Provides technical leadership and consultation with regards to practices, procedures and techniques.

Supports trials of new infrastructure designs/services.

Consistent exercise of independent judgment and discretion in matters of significance.

Employees at all levels are expected to:

Understand our Operating Principles; make them the guidelines for how you do your job.

Own the customer experience - think and act in ways that put our customers first, give them seamless digital options at every touchpoint, and make them promoters of our products and services.

Know your stuff - be enthusiastic learners, users and advocates of our game-changing technology, products and services, especially our digital tools and experiences.

Win as a team - make big things happen by working together and being open to new ideas.

Be an active part of the Net Promoter System - a way of working that brings more employee and customer feedback into the company - by joining huddles, making call backs and helping us elevate opportunities to do better for our customers.

Drive results and growth.

Respect and promote inclusion & diversity.

Do what's right for each other, our customers, investors and our communities.

Disclaimer:

This information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications.

Comcast is an EOE/Veterans/Disabled/LGBT employer.

Education

Bachelor's Degree

While possessing the stated degree is preferred, Comcast also may consider applicants who hold some combination of coursework and experience, or who have extensive related professional experience.

Relevant Work Experience

5-7 Years

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Company info

Comcast
Website : http://corporate.comcast.com