Performance Test Lead

 

• Support remediation of Guidewire Platform Health findings (performance, integration, stability)
• Establish or enhance performance and reliability testing strategy
• Baseline, measure, and track:
• Latency
• Throughput
• Error rates
• Integration success/failure rates
• Batch/job stability and success rates
• Validate that fixes result in measurable improvements in system health
• Contribute to a repeatable, scalable performance and reliability testing practice

• Design and execute:
• Performance, load, and stress tests
• End-to-end system tests across PolicyCenter and BillingCenter
• Validate system behavior under normal and peak conditions

• Test and analyze:
• API interactions
• Asynchronous processing / messaging flows
• Cross-system data movement (PC ↔ BC)
• Identify and diagnose integration failures and inconsistencies

• Validate:
• Batch job execution and performance
• Work queue processing and failure handling
• Identify retry issues, bottlenecks, and backlog risks

• Analyze:
• Application-layer bottlenecks
• JVM/thread behavior
• Database query performance
• API latency and failure points
• Distinguish root causes vs symptoms

• Analyze system logs and monitoring outputs
• Identify:
• High-noise vs actionable errors
• Gaps in logging and monitoring
• Recommend improvements to observability

• Partner with developers to address:
• Query optimization
• Code-level performance issues
• Integration reliability
• Error handling improvements
• Translate findings into clear, actionable recommendations

• Provide before/after metric validation for fixes
• Support sprint/release reviews with quantifiable improvements
• Help establish consistent reporting on system health

• Strong experience in performance and reliability testing in distributed systems
• Hands-on experience with performance testing tools:
• JMeter, Gatling, LoadRunner, or similar
• Experience testing system integrations:
• APIs (REST/SOAP)
• Async processing / messaging systems

• Ability to analyze:
• JVM / thread behavior
• Database queries and performance
• API latency and throughput
• Batch/job execution patterns
• Experience diagnosing:
• Integration failures
• High error volumes and log noise
• Systemic vs localized issues

• Strong root cause analysis mindset (not just defect identification)
• Ability to translate technical findings into actionable insights
• Comfortable working in cross-team, platform-level environments

• Experience with Guidewire (PolicyCenter and BillingCenter strongly preferred)
• Insurance domain knowledge (policy and billing flows)
• Experience with:
• Batch processing / job scheduling systems
• Observability tools (e.g., DataDog)
• Background in:
• SRE (Site Reliability Engineering)
• Platform engineering
• Systems-level QA

• Measurable improvements in:
• System performance (latency, throughput)
• Integration reliability (reduced cross-system failures)
• Batch/work queue stability
• Reduction in error noise and improved observability
• Consistent ability to identify true root causes across system layers
• Clear contribution to sustained system health improvements
• Establishment of repeatable performance and reliability testing practices

• Work on Performance Test Strategies/Test Plans
• Identify Performance Test Requirements/Test Scenarios
• Define and Validate Workload Models with the Project Teams
• Create Test Case Workflow/Performance Test Scripts
• Validate Monitoring tools
• Validate Test Environments are ready, available, accurate, etc.
• Define, communicate and plan test schedule/windows
• Execute test per planned windows and analyze executed tests
• Document defects in Microfocus Quality Center
• Review Test Results
• Create Results Report

• Experience in Performance testing, monitoring and analysis with excellent reporting Skills
• Experience in Test Strategy, Test Design, Test Plan report
• Experience in creating performance test scripts using different protocols like Web (HTTP/HTML), TruClient, Web Services, REST and .Net applications
• Experience in creating different type of scenarios to simulate different load and users pattern for Stress Test, Peak Load Test, Endurance Test, Volume test and other different type tests
• Experience in tools like Loadrunner, Jmeter, AppDynamics, Splunk ( or other APM Tools) for Web/App and DB layers
• Good experience on Performance testing of the Web (HTTP/HTML), TruClient, Web Services, REST and .Net applications
• Proficiency in one or more general purpose programming languages.
• Good understanding of agile methodologies and agile performance testing.
• Knowledge of Storm Runner tool
• Ability to work in team in diverse/ multiple stakeholder environment
• Good communication skills
• Good Analytical skills
• Experience and desire to work in a Global delivery environment

• Experience in WAS tuning, JVM tuning, PL SQL tuning experience.
• Working knowledge in debugging of performance scripts, identification of performance bottlenecks using drill down analysis using monitoring tools; Interaction with various stake holders for performance issue resolution
• Development performance testing solution for small services in Devops world.
• Strong understanding of techniques such as Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Test Driven Development, Cloud Development, application resiliency and security
• Experience in working for cloud-based application performance testing and tuning
• Experience in CI/CD pipeline for performance testing.