Performance Tester - ONLY GC OR USC OR EAD

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Performance Tester - ONLY GC OR USC OR EAD Seattle WA Duration: +6months Required Skills: 1. +4 years of Load Runner experience 2. Proven technical Leadership skills 3. SQL Top Three Skills: 1) Enterprise experience with Load Runner. Will be utilizing Load Runner to analyze, modify, execute, and report performance test suites across a variety of desktop and web-based applications. 2) Ability to provide technical leadership to Junior level engineers on Load Runner. Previous lead, supervisor experience a plus, otherwise strong and clear communicative abilities. 3) SQL (moderate to high), Visual studio (performance testing), experience in Healthcare also highly encouraged. Job Description: Premera's test team is looking for a contract resource to assist them in a data center migration project. They are trying to see if application(s) performance is staying the same when they are moving servers from the current data center to the new data center. They mostly have all the existing scripts and some new scripts, that will need to be created when they try the performance test of the new data center. If this person knows about visual studio performance test that would be great. Both load runner and VS performance test. Please see additional write-up below: As a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) for our IT Applications team, you will be working on core IT projects that impact all areas of the organization. You will provide quality products to customers while working with development teams. You will be working on projects in team settings that are highly collaborative and open to looking for new ways to incorporate innovative automation. We are looking for your technical expertise to help us answer questions such as: • How can our QA team assist in the reduction of technical debt? • How can we help move into a direction of Test Driven Development? • What can we do to support developers to create higher quality out-of-the-gate code and not rely on a test team to catch their issues? • Within our IT organization you will have growth opportunities, the ability to mentor others, and the support of leadership to lead new initiatives and creatively solving problems as those mentioned above. Being a part of the Quality Team, you will have the ability to prevent potentially stressful situations from happening for each and every one of our customers and make peoples’ lives easier! What you’ll do: • Work collaboratively with development and testing peers to identify new automation possibilities to generate or manipulate data, create automated regression tests and tools, or other technical advances that could empower the team to test in ways that would not be available by manual testing alone. • Utilize critical thinking and analytical skills to work through complex business problems in ways that will ensure we are adding quality value by bringing quality upstream, reducing technical debt, or providing automation or tools with a mindful return on investment. What you’ll bring: • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or four (4) years’ experience in Information Technology • Seven (7) years’ of experience in Quality Assurance/Software Testing or Information technology field • Ability to attack the business problem, plan for and predict outcomes and ask the right questions • Advanced SQL, C# and .NET skills - Java is desired • Deep technical knowledge of automated testing, automatic test data creation in a complex/heterogeneous environment, performance, load and stress testing, design and implementation of automation frameworks, automated test script design, build execution and maintenance • Test tools – (Automation tools, MTM, Load Runner, UFT) • Experience with the SDLC, Spiral and Agile methodologies • Ability to articulate your own contributions on projects and articulate the needs of the project • Experience managing a program would be a plus • Knowledge of healthcare domain would be helpful • Ability to successfully work and navigate with lots of ambiguity Other noteworthy details: • NOT an order taker role • NEED to be an out-of-the-box thinker • Start-up mentality, you’ll wear lots of hats; we’d like you to come in and shake things up • Help us get IT up to speed Navya navyar@usmsystems(dot)com 703-953-1819 If my requirement matches your resume, then please do reply on my email id navyar (at) usmsystems(dot)com and contact no is 703-953-1819. USM Business Systems Inc. is a quickly developing worldwide System Integrator, Software and Product Development, IT Outsourcing and Technology assistance supplier headquartered in Chantilly, VA. We offer world-class ability in giving most astounding quality and administrations through industry best practices planned to convey remarkable worth to our customers. Utilizing our industry knowledge, administration service offering expertise and innovation abilities, we distinguish new business and innovation slants and create answers for help customers around the globe, giving top of the line solid and practical IT benefits which are cost effective services. Established in 1999, the organization has corner qualities in building and dealing with a Business Oriented IT environment with rich involvement in technology innovation, ERP and CRM counselling, Product Engineering, Business Intelligence, Data Management, SOA, BPM, Data Warehousing, SharePoint Consulting and IT Infrastructure. Our other offerings include modified solutions and administrations in ERP, CRM, Enterprise architecture, offshore advisory services and e-commerce. USM, a US ensured Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) is perceived as one of the fastest developing IT Systems Integrator in the Washington, DC zone. Most as of late, USM was positioned #9 on the rundown of the Top administrations organizations in the DC Metro Area - Washington Business Journal (2011). We are a project-driven firm that reliably meets the IT needs of our State and Government customers through development and business keenness.