Senior Test Analyst - Institutions Remote - Contractor

Senior Test Analyst - Institutions - Netherlands - Remote - Contractor / Travel 1 week every 3 weeks

Amsterdam, Netherlands | Posted on 12/13/2023

For an Institution in The Netherlands, we are urgently looking for a Senior Test Analyst with +9 years of experience to support development/deployment of various projects by conducting thorough non‑functional performance testing of new /updated GUIs and APIs for relevant applications/services running in (Docker) containers. A significant part of the work consists of designing, executing and reporting of performance test scripts using JMeter following the Dev Ops “continuous testing principle”.

Candidates need to be willing to work 1 week per 3 weeks on‑site in The Netherlands. Candidates need to be fluent in English. A work permit is required.

EU Candidates need to be fluent in English. This position is also open for contractors, who would like to commit long‑term.

• Development and execution of Performance/Load Testing, Stress Testing, Endurance Testing, Capacity Testing
• Definition of performance goals/thresholds/acceptance criteria with related tests
• Analysis and reporting on performance test executions identifying performance bottlenecks and advising on improvements
• Support in definition of test plans regarding non‑functional quality characteristics (e.g. technical security, efficiency or reliability)
• Non‑functional testing of ICT infrastructure and data migration projects
• Creation of large and complex test data sets (structured and unstructured data) and management of test data
• Support to operational acceptance testing and piloting activities
• Identification, re‑testing of and reporting on defects
• Reporting of test results

• +9 years of experience in the area of Software Quality Assurance in the role of Technical Test Analyst
• +5 years of experience in performance testing of different kinds of systems (web apps, web services, middleware, databases), protocols and technologies (HTTP, REST, gRPC, SOAP, JDBC)
• +1 year of experience working in Kubernetes environments
• Ability to define performance goals/thresholds/acceptance criteria with related tests, based on product conditions, standards and regulations
• Good knowledge of C# or JAVA programming language or scripting languages (python, groovy) in the context of performance testing
• Developing and executing Performance/Load Testing, Stress Testing, Endurance Testing, Capacity Testing
• Apache JMeter performance test tool for developing, executing and analysing load test scenarios
• Containerized environments (Kubernetes) including monitoring tools and Open Tracing
• Networking, load balancers, firewalls, middleware (like queuing systems) and database