What are the responsibilities and job description for the Real Time Performance Tester position at ALTA IT Services?
Real Time Performance Tester - local candidates ONLY
Remote for now and local to Vienna, VA for returning to the office in future.
Pay Rate : Open to Both C2C and W2 options
Position Type : Multiyear Contract
Qualification and Education Requirements :
- Demonstrated experience in load test, stress test, stability test and test automation.
- Design comprehensive test strategies for real-time Kubernetes applications, covering functional, performance, stress, and fault tolerance testing aspects.
- Develop and maintain detailed test cases for various scenarios including message queuing, event processing, distributed system interactions, and real-time data streaming.
- Conduct load and stress testing to identify performance bottlenecks in real-time applications running on Kubernetes clusters, optimizing resource allocation and scaling mechanisms.
- Implement real-time monitoring solutions to track application health metrics, latency, throughput, and resource usage during testing, identifying potential issues proactively.
- Proficiency in automated testing frameworks like Selenium, JMeter, or other relevant tools for real-time application testing.
- Working experience in PySpark / Python and Databricks and proficiency in SQL.
- Knowledge of real-time communication protocols (e.g., WebSockets, MQTT), event streaming platforms (e.g., Kafka), and distributed system design principles.
- Hands on experience in PowerShell, Windows batch scripting is a plus.
- Agile Delivery – Azure DevOps / Boards, JIIRA
- Proficiency in agile delivery metrics terminology
- Advanced database scripting (backup, restore, data migration and health checks)
- Knowledge of CI / CD integration for databases.
Desired Qualifications and Education Requirements :
