Performance Tester

ADP is hiring a Performance Tester – Peterborough (Hybrid)

• Are you passionate about the best possible client experience and inspired by positively impacting the lives of millions of people every day?
• Are you looking to join a dynamic, inclusive team environment with a culture of collaboration and belonging? 
Well, this may be the role for you. Ready to design what’s next?

We are seeking a skilled and detail-oriented Performance Tester with hands-on experience in tools such as LoadRunner, Splunk, and Dynatrace to join our Performance team. The candidate will be responsible for refining, executing, and helping analyse performance tests to ensure that our application meets performance and scalability requirements.

To thrive in this career, you’ll need to be knowledgeable in performance testing strategies, technologies and tools including LoadRunner, SQL Query Store, Splunk and Dynatrace. You’ll also have a detailed and focused analytic mindset to help identify concerns throughout the development lifecycle. You’ll be a good communicator and will work closely with internal stakeholders to deliver effective and helpful performance metrics and guidance to our development teams.

Like our best associates, you are an enthusiastic creator eager to learn and take on stretch assignments. You strive to learn new technologies and find ways to incorporate what you learn into enhancing the performance domain.

As a Performance Tester, you will work closely with your team and the wider development teams in many locations to support the performance function and be part of our future success. As part of our team, you’ll find exciting challenges, get opportunities to grow your career, and develop solid friendships as we design what’s next for ADP and the industry. Pace should not scare you. We still find time for a healthy dose of fun.

Like what you see? Apply now!

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WHAT YOU’LL DO:
Here’s what you can expect on a typical day:
● Agile. You’ll start each day with a scrum, working in a team to understand responsibilities, identify issues, and communicate priorities while choosing tasks to complete.
• Build Processes. You will use your technical expertise and help your people excel in an Agile environment. You’re proactive and hands-on. When you see a potential issue, you never leave things hanging and unfinished.
• Variety of work. There is no typical day. You could be checking in with a team in India one minute, meeting with leadership and tomorrow handling a few ad hoc requests from your peers in other departments.
• Influence and inspire confidence. You are comfortable presenting to peers with a confident voice, communicating clearly on your work and deliverables.
• Experience. You have 3+ years of technical experience gained in performance engineering.

TO SUCCEED IN THIS ROLE:
• You’ll have a bachelor’s degree OR equivalent.
• Strong proficiency with LoadRunner (including VuGen, Controller, and Analysis components).
• You will be familiar with load and usage models to emulate real world usage scenarios to evaluate system performance characteristics and detect performance and scalability concerns.
• You will have experience in running performance tests including supporting environment and data requirements.
• You will have experience of working on large scale applications built with Microsoft technologies including SQL Server, IIS, .Net Framework and Windows Server.
• You will ideally have experience of working within large organizations and coordinating with shared service providers.
• Experience analyzing logs and metrics to identify performance issues
• Experience using Dynatrace for application performance monitoring

YOU’LL LOVE WORKING HERE BECAUSE YOU CAN:

● Have courageous team collaboration. Courage comes from how associates are willing to have difficult conversations, speak up, be an owner, and challenge one another’s ideas to find the best solution.
● Deliver at epic scale. We deliver real user outcomes using strong judgment and good instincts. We’re obsessed with the art of achieving simplicity with a focus on client happiness and productivity.
● Be surrounded by curious learners. We align ourselves with other smart people in an environment where we grow and elevate one another to the next level. We encourage our associates to listen, stay agile, and learn from mistakes.
● Act like an owner & doer. Mission-driven and committed to leading change, you will be encouraged to take on any challenge and solve complex problems. No tasks are beneath or too great for us. We are hands-on and willing to master our craft.
● Give back to others. Always do the right thing for our clients and our community and humbly give back to the community where we live and work. Support our associates in times of need through ADP’s Philanthropic Foundation.
● Join a company committed to equality and equity. Our goal is to impact lasting change through our actions.

What are you waiting for? Apply today!

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