Our Miami based client is looking for a QA professional responsible for planning, creating, coordinating, and executing manual and automated performance testing to verify that programs function according to specifications and standards by performing the following duties:

• Defines functional and performance test strategies in the QA test environments to meet quality standards defined by internal quality standards.
• Develops and maintains performance baselines for internal and customer-facing application performance.
• Ensures all performance test and environment strategies are implemented and executed for each required build/release/project to ensure complete performance testing coverage and to meet defined quality standards.
• Reviews all functional regression and performance test results from a business and technical perspective to ensure integrity and traceability back to requirements.
• Tests software programs to compare to specifications and documentation.
• Identifies, analyzes, and documents defects, questionable functions, errors, and inconsistencies in software program functions, outputs, online screens, and content.
• Creates test plans, test cases and test data.
• Creates and executes automated test scripts using testing software programs.
• Installs, maintains, and uses testing software programs.
• Responds to inquiries from users and technical support regarding functions and operations of software programs.
• Contributes to establishment of standards and procedures for program design and testing.
• Recommends program improvements or revisions to programmers and system analysts.
• Reviews computer logs and reports to identify program processing errors and possible improvements.
• Coordinates testing by users and third parties.
• Identifies program variances from standards and suggests modifications to conform.
• Assists users to isolate possible problems in software after implementation.
• Conducts compatibility tests with other software programs, hardware, multiple operating systems, and network environments.
• Monitors program performance after implementation to prevent recurrence of program operating problems and ensure efficiency of operation.
• Documents, tracks, and communicates test plans, test results, analysis, and unresolved problems.
• Develops computer programs to test, track, and verify defects in software programs.
• Reviews and contributes to software program documentation.

Qualifications:

• Minimum 5 years conducting manual functional and regression testing
• Minimum 5 years conducting formal performance testing responsibilities (preferred)
• Experience creating scripts against web services
• Experience with security using windows authentication
• Experience with planning and managing testing for performance diagnostic, capacity planning, performance architecture design, performance tuning and performance monitoring
• Strong working knowledge of relational databases preferred
• Strong data analysis skills and hands on
• Ability to work on various assignments simultaneously
• Ability to communicate tactfully, verbally and in writing with department heads, managers, coworkers and vendors to resolve problems and negotiate resolutions
• Working knowledge of computers, internet access, and the ability to navigate within an automated systems as well as a variety of software packages such as Excel and Word

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