Do you have 5 + years of experience leading and developing Performance programs, test processes, methodologies, approaches and tools or equivalent development performance experience? Do you have 5+ years of experience with performance test simulations and performance analysis, performance monitoring in a n-tier environment? If so, this would be a great opportunity for you!
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Our client is looking for a Senior Automation Developer for a 6 month contract in Toronto.
This is a hybrid role.
Advantages
• Earn a competitive rate within the industry.
• Location: 3 days onsite (possible 5, starting Jan, 2025).
Responsibilities
• Develop an overall business case for a platform level Performance Test Program
• Define Non- functional/ Performance Test Strategy at a Program level
• Authors Performance strategy and test plans
• Define, develop and achieve performance/scalability benchmarks
• Design, develop, and execute performance test cases and scripts through analysis of product specifications and software requirements
• Performs integrations, stress, load, regression and performance testing to validate production readiness of software applications and infrastructure for stability and performance
• Design POCs to suggest new tools to improve existing performance suites
• Monitor and track the automation for effectiveness
• Perform automated load/performance testing across multiple messaging protocols (including HTTP), focusing on overall application performance - validating that application response and outputs accurately reflect business requirements
• Drive performance / load test operations towards a CI pipeline model to support continuous performance improvements in the solution
• Real-Time Performance Testing: Experience with testing real-time data processing systems, ensuring minimal latency, high throughput, and stability under peak loads.
• Resilience & Fault Tolerance Testing: Simulating network failures, server crashes, and other disruptions to assess how the system recovers and handles failures.
• Observability & Monitoring: Experience with real-time monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana (K6), Datadog, or Splunk to track performance metrics and system health.
• Performance in Distributed Systems: Assessing how performance scales in a distributed/cloud-native environment and ensuring optimal resource utilization.
• Tracks and communicates task progress, status, and key performance metrics
• Report defects found in testing diligently, promptly, and accurately, using standard defect tracking tools
• Pinpointing bottlenecks, and collaborating with relevant teams to enhance system performance.
• Communicate effectively across multiple teams/external vendors (Operations, Project Teams, Quality Service, ), different personnel (Developers, Scrum Masters, Project Managers, ) when required
• Hands-on experience within API REST/SOAP testing and experience using related tools, Postman, ReadyAPI etc along with understanding of the UI applications.
• Expected to maintain technical expertise via self-education in areas governing computer sciences, performance/load testing dictums, and Quality Assurance.
Qualifications
Must Haves:
· 5 + years of experience leading and developing Performance programs, test processes, methodologies, approaches and tools or equivalent development performance experience
· 5+ years of experience with performance test simulations and performance analysis, performance monitoring in a n-tier environment
· 3+ years experience Strong load testing, development and specifically J/Meter skills and experience
· 5+ years of experience with Agile methodologies
· 5+ years experience working with cloud technologies like Azure
Public Sector Experience: Nice to Have
Skills:
· Extensive experience with Performance testing and automation tools such as JMeters, LoadRunner, Cloudtest, Selenium, Appium or similar
· Proficiency with scripting tools such as python, and shell scripting
· Code knowledge PHP,HTML,CSS,AutoIt,XML,JSON,Javascript, Log4net
· Experience with Real-Time Data Technologies: Kafka, RabbitMQ, or other event-driven architectures.
· Cloud Performance Testing: Experience using cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and their performance testing methodologies, including auto-scaling and load balancing strategies.
· Low Latency Optimization: Experience optimizing applications for low-latency scenarios, including techniques like caching, message queuing, and network optimizations.
· Experience developing your own testing tools to facilitate performance testing is a major plus
· Ability to work as part of a self-directed Agile team
· Provide support and mentoring to distributed project teams on performance activities
· Strong data analysis and post processing skills to validate system performance
· Extensive hands on experience with manual and automated Performance testing
· Hands on experience on installation, setup and configuration the system to get going
· Demonstrated competency with various tools, including Defect Management Tools, Test Management and Planning Tools
· 3-4 years experience in software application development or test automation (some experience may be in an academic environment)
· Should have knowledge about authentication (Basic, Digest, Form-Based, Bearer Tokens, JWT Tokens, MFA) implementation in load testing tools
Experience:
· 5 + years of experience leading and developing Performance programs, test processes, methodologies, approaches and tools or equivalent development performance experience
· 5+ years of experience with performance test simulations and performance analysis, performance monitoring in a n-tier environment
· 3+ years experience Strong load testing, development and specifically J/Meter skills and experience
· 5+ years of experience with Agile methodologies
· 5+ years experience working with cloud technologies like Azure
Education:
Completion of a university degree or college diploma, preferably in computer science/engineering, information technology, business administration, or a related discipline, or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience
Summary
If you are interested in the Senior Automation Developer role in Toronto, please apply online at www.randstad.ca. Qualified candidates will be contacted.
Randstad Canada is committed to fostering a workforce reflective of all peoples of Canada. As a result, we are committed to developing and implementing strategies to increase the equity, diversity and inclusion within the workplace by examining our internal policies, practices, and systems throughout the entire lifecycle of our workforce, including its recruitment, retention and advancement for all employees. In addition to our deep commitment to respecting human rights, we are dedicated to positive actions to affect change to ensure everyone has full participation in the workforce free from any barriers, systemic or otherwise, especially equity-seeking groups who are usually underrepresented in Canada's workforce, including those who identify as women or non-binary/gender non-conforming; Indigenous or Aboriginal Peoples; persons with disabilities (visible or invisible) and; members of visible minorities, racialized groups and the LGBTQ2+ community.
Randstad Canada is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible workplace for all its candidates and employees by supporting their accessibility and accommodation needs throughout the employment lifecycle. We ask that all job applications please identify any accommodation requirements by sending an email to accessibility@randstad.ca to ensure their ability to fully participate in the interview process.
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Do you have 5 + years of experience leading and developing Performance programs, test processes, methodologies, approaches and tools or equivalent development performance experience? Do you have 5+ years of experience with performance test simulations and performance analysis, performance monitoring in a n-tier environment? If so, this would be a great opportunity for you!
Our client is looking for a Senior Automation Developer for a 6 month contract in Toronto.
This is a hybrid role.
Advantages
• Earn a competitive rate within the industry.
• Location: 3 days onsite (possible 5, starting Jan, 2025).
Responsibilities
• Develop an overall business case for a platform level Performance Test Program
• Define Non- functional/ Performance Test Strategy at a Program level
• Authors Performance strategy and test plans
• Define, develop and achieve performance/scalability benchmarks
• Design, develop, and execute performance test cases and scripts through analysis of product specifications and software requirements
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• Performs integrations, stress, load, regression and performance testing to validate production readiness of software applications and infrastructure for stability and performance
• Design POCs to suggest new tools to improve existing performance suites
• Monitor and track the automation for effectiveness
• Perform automated load/performance testing across multiple messaging protocols (including HTTP), focusing on overall application performance - validating that application response and outputs accurately reflect business requirements
• Drive performance / load test operations towards a CI pipeline model to support continuous performance improvements in the solution
• Real-Time Performance Testing: Experience with testing real-time data processing systems, ensuring minimal latency, high throughput, and stability under peak loads.
• Resilience & Fault Tolerance Testing: Simulating network failures, server crashes, and other disruptions to assess how the system recovers and handles failures.
• Observability & Monitoring: Experience with real-time monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana (K6), Datadog, or Splunk to track performance metrics and system health.
• Performance in Distributed Systems: Assessing how performance scales in a distributed/cloud-native environment and ensuring optimal resource utilization.
• Tracks and communicates task progress, status, and key performance metrics
• Report defects found in testing diligently, promptly, and accurately, using standard defect tracking tools
• Pinpointing bottlenecks, and collaborating with relevant teams to enhance system performance.
• Communicate effectively across multiple teams/external vendors (Operations, Project Teams, Quality Service, ), different personnel (Developers, Scrum Masters, Project Managers, ) when required
• Hands-on experience within API REST/SOAP testing and experience using related tools, Postman, ReadyAPI etc along with understanding of the UI applications.
• Expected to maintain technical expertise via self-education in areas governing computer sciences, performance/load testing dictums, and Quality Assurance.
Qualifications
Must Haves:
· 5 + years of experience leading and developing Performance programs, test processes, methodologies, approaches and tools or equivalent development performance experience
· 5+ years of experience with performance test simulations and performance analysis, performance monitoring in a n-tier environment
· 3+ years experience Strong load testing, development and specifically J/Meter skills and experience
· 5+ years of experience with Agile methodologies
· 5+ years experience working with cloud technologies like Azure
Public Sector Experience: Nice to Have
Skills:
· Extensive experience with Performance testing and automation tools such as JMeters, LoadRunner, Cloudtest, Selenium, Appium or similar
· Proficiency with scripting tools such as python, and shell scripting
· Code knowledge PHP,HTML,CSS,AutoIt,XML,JSON,Javascript, Log4net
· Experience with Real-Time Data Technologies: Kafka, RabbitMQ, or other event-driven architectures.
· Cloud Performance Testing: Experience using cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and their performance testing methodologies, including auto-scaling and load balancing strategies.
· Low Latency Optimization: Experience optimizing applications for low-latency scenarios, including techniques like caching, message queuing, and network optimizations.
· Experience developing your own testing tools to facilitate performance testing is a major plus
· Ability to work as part of a self-directed Agile team
· Provide support and mentoring to distributed project teams on performance activities
· Strong data analysis and post processing skills to validate system performance
· Extensive hands on experience with manual and automated Performance testing
· Hands on experience on installation, setup and configuration the system to get going
· Demonstrated competency with various tools, including Defect Management Tools, Test Management and Planning Tools
· 3-4 years experience in software application development or test automation (some experience may be in an academic environment)
· Should have knowledge about authentication (Basic, Digest, Form-Based, Bearer Tokens, JWT Tokens, MFA) implementation in load testing tools
Experience:
· 5 + years of experience leading and developing Performance programs, test processes, methodologies, approaches and tools or equivalent development performance experience
· 5+ years of experience with performance test simulations and performance analysis, performance monitoring in a n-tier environment
· 3+ years experience Strong load testing, development and specifically J/Meter skills and experience
· 5+ years of experience with Agile methodologies
· 5+ years experience working with cloud technologies like Azure
Education:
Completion of a university degree or college diploma, preferably in computer science/engineering, information technology, business administration, or a related discipline, or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience
Summary
If you are interested in the Senior Automation Developer role in Toronto, please apply online at www.randstad.ca. Qualified candidates will be contacted.
Randstad Canada is committed to fostering a workforce reflective of all peoples of Canada. As a result, we are committed to developing and implementing strategies to increase the equity, diversity and inclusion within the workplace by examining our internal policies, practices, and systems throughout the entire lifecycle of our workforce, including its recruitment, retention and advancement for all employees. In addition to our deep commitment to respecting human rights, we are dedicated to positive actions to affect change to ensure everyone has full participation in the workforce free from any barriers, systemic or otherwise, especially equity-seeking groups who are usually underrepresented in Canada's workforce, including those who identify as women or non-binary/gender non-conforming; Indigenous or Aboriginal Peoples; persons with disabilities (visible or invisible) and; members of visible minorities, racialized groups and the LGBTQ2+ community.
Randstad Canada is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible workplace for all its candidates and employees by supporting their accessibility and accommodation needs throughout the employment lifecycle. We ask that all job applications please identify any accommodation requirements by sending an email to accessibility@randstad.ca to ensure their ability to fully participate in the interview process.
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