Assessment & Planning
- Collaborate with project team, business analysts, and application team to understand system requirements, workload models, SLAs, and performance expectations.
- Conduct feasibility studies for performance testing requirements and prepare comprehensive assessment reports with cost/benefit justifications.
- Prepare effort estimations, resource plans, and test schedules for performance testing phases.
- Identify critical business transactions, performance risks, and peak workload scenarios for inclusion in test planning.
- Develop and maintain the Performance Test Plan, conduct walkthroughs with stakeholders and obtain formal sign-off.
Script Design & Development
- Design, develop, and maintain performance test scripts and scenarios using industry-standard tools (e.g. LoadRunner, JMeter, etc.) covering web, API, database, and backend layers.
- Build and maintain workload models and test data strategies that simulate real-world user behavior.
- Develop reusable and modular performance testing scripts to minimize rework and maximize efficiency.
- Customize and extend performance testing tools where required (e.g., scripting protocols, reporting enhancements).
Execution & Analysis
- Plan, coordinate, and execute load, stress, endurance, scalability, and failover tests in collaboration with project and infrastructure teams.
- Monitor system performance during test execution, capturing metrics across application, database, server, and network layers.
- Analyze test results to identify bottlenecks, system constraints, and performance issues, and work closely with developers/DBAs/infrastructure teams to drive resolution.
- Provide clear, actionable reports with performance insights, trends, and optimization recommendations to stakeholders.
- Track and manage defects and issues identified during performance tests until closure.
Test Closure
- Maintain and update performance test artefacts, scripts, scenarios, and results in a central repository for reusability across projects.
- Capture lessons learned, tuning recommendations, and best practices to continuously improve performance testing capability.
- Provide test closure reports with comparative performance baselines for future reference.
Leadership & Continuous Improvement
- Stay current with emerging tools, technologies, and methodologies in performance testing and recommend adoption where beneficial.
- Mentor, coach, and upskill team members on performance testing frameworks, scripting, and analysis to strengthen internal capability.
- Drive initiatives to reduce test cycle time, increase automation, and improve test efficiency across performance testing engagements.
