Consultant- Performance QA
Guidewire SoftwareResponsibilities
- Own end-to-end performance testing for assigned projects from requirements analysis through sign-off.
- Collaborate with architects, functional QA, business analysts, developers, and cloud teams to define business flows, volumes, SLAs, and peak-load expectations.
- Design workload models, performance test scenarios, test data strategies, and environment prerequisites.
- Develop, maintain, and execute performance test scripts using JMeter or equivalent tools.
- Execute load, stress, endurance/soak, spike, and scalability tests and capture key metrics.
- Monitor applications, databases, and infrastructure during test runs and produce actionable reports.
- Analyze results to identify bottlenecks, risks, and tuning opportunities, then support retesting and fix validation.
- Maintain test plans, scripts, datasets, execution logs, and result summaries.
- Share performance-testing best practices with functional QA and junior team members.
Requirements
- 4–6 years of overall software QA experience, including at least 3 years focused on performance testing of web or enterprise applications.
- Hands-on experience with at least one performance-testing tool such as JMeter or Gatling; LoadRunner or similar is a plus.
- Understanding of response time, throughput, concurrency, error rates, capacity, SLAs, and common performance-test types.
- Ability to interpret application/JVM, database, and infrastructure metrics, including threads, heap, garbage collection, slow queries, indexing, connection pooling, CPU, memory, network, and disk I/O.
- Experience with monitoring or APM tools such as Datadog, AppDynamics, or New Relic.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, communication, and stakeholder-management skills.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Guidewire application experience, cloud-environment testing, distributed-architecture exposure, and Professional Services or customer-facing implementation experience are preferred.
Tech Stack
Categories
About Guidewire Software
Guidewire is the platform P&C insurers trust to engage, innovate, and grow efficiently. More than 570 insurers in 43 countries, from new ventures to the largest and most complex in the world, rely on Guidewire products. With core systems leveraging data and analytics, digital, and artificial intelligence, Guidewire defines cloud platform excellence for P&C insurers. We are proud of our unparalleled implementation record, with 1,700+ successful projects supported by the industry’s largest R&D team and SI partner ecosystem. Our marketplace represents the largest partner community in P&C, where customers can access hundreds of applications to accelerate integration, localization, and innovation. For more information, please visit https://www.guidewire.com/.