Status:
Full-Time, Contract
Level:
2-5 Years Experience
Job Location:
Mason, OH
Job Ref Code:
ITEQG952430
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About Kforce Technology
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With over 45 years of experience, Kforce continues to set the standard in the technology staffing & solutions industry. With an unwavering commitment, Kforce strives to provide candidates with exceptional service in meeting their employment and career needs. Kforce provides consulting, contract-to-hire or direct hire positions with a wide range of organizations; from small, privately held companies to large, multinationals. Our technical specialty areas include: data management, functional and business analysis, infrastructure and systems application development. .
Backed by approximately 1,900 staffing specialists, Kforce is committed to "Great People = Great Results" for our valued clients and candidates. Our Firm operates with 62 offices in 41 markets in North America and two in the Philippines.
Kforce is an EEO/AA Employer
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POSITION
QA Engineer / Performance and Load Testing
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Job Description:
Kforce Consulting is seeking a QA Engineer for a contract with right to hire position in Cincinnati, OH. This position spans a variety of technical responsibilities. Top among these responsibilities are hands-on load, performance, interface and integration testing across multiple Client products. This engineer will also support the building out and maintenance of a robust enterprise testing tool. Principal Responsibilities: - Execute load and performance tests against web-based applications, web service interfaces, and back-end server components
- Document test results, identify and report performance issues, perform re-testing to ensure issues are properly resolved
- Work with development teams to gather and document system requirements related to performance and system load
- Lead the creation of load and performance test plans to capture test requirements, assumptions and test conditions
- Identify production metrics important to performance/load testing efforts; assist with collection methods where feasible
- Provide technical assistance to interface and system integration test efforts across systems
- Manage the performance / load testing environment
- Create and manage load testing scripts
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: - Candidates should have professional experience with performance / load testing in an enterprise environment. Testing experience in a multi-tiered, web-based environment is a plus
- Basic understanding of network, database, and server operation as they relate to load testing. Familiar with high level design, operating characteristics and test points of multi-tiered, web-based application
- Experience with functional and/or load testing of web services is required
- Ability to understand architecture of products and subsystems. Able to identify and describe major components and public interfaces
- Ability to work with technical resources from other groups to identify critical system interface and integration test points, and translate into measurable test requirements
- Previous programming experience using: VB.Net, Java, C++, or C#, C
- Scripting experience in KSH/Perl/Python/VBScript may be helpful
- Familiarity with SQL/Oracle databases. Previous experience with TOAD is a plus
- Experience with Apache, WebLogic, JRockit, and/or RedHat
- Candidate should have basic working knowledge of UNIX/Linux/Windows
- Knowledge of HTTP/S, HTML, XML, JMS, SOAP/web services
- Knowledge of HL7, NCPDP, 270/271 messaging formats is a plus
- Ability to use JMS Client for backend testing
- Analysis and report generation using HP Load Controller
- Experience using enterprise Java technologies is a plus
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills
- Good oral and written communication skills
- Experience working in an Agile environment is a plus
Minimum Qualifications: - At least 3 years of experience executing software load and performance testing in an enterprise environment
- 2 years of programming experience using VB, .NET (C# or VB), C, C++, Java, or other popular programming language. Perl/Python/JavaScript scripting experience may be considered equivalent
- Comfortable with Unix/Linux/Windows operating systems
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