What You Need To Know
Open the door to a groundbreaking tech career with an industry leader. Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits is North America’s preeminent wine and spirits distributor, as well as a family-owned, privately held company with a 50+ year legacy of success. To create a new era in alcohol beverage sales and service, we’re heavily invested in the most transformative new technologies – and the most brilliant tech professionals. Southern Glazer’s was named by Newsweek as a Most Loved Workplace and is included on the Forbes lists for Largest Private Companies and Best Employers for .
As a full-time employee, you can choose from a full menu of our Top Shelf Benefits, including comprehensive medical and prescription drug coverage, dental and vision plans, tax-saving Flexible Spending Accounts, coverage, life insurance plans, and a 401(k) plan. We also offer tuition reimbursement, a wellness program, parental leave, vacation accrual, paid sick leave, and more.
We offer continuous learning and career growth in a fast-paced environment where you are respected, your voice is heard, and technology is part of our strategy for success. If you’re looking to fill your glass with opportunity, come join our FAMILY.
Overview
The Senior QA Performance Test Engineer job is responsible for the overall performance quality of systems and technology that are released into ETP’s production environment. The scope of this role includes the comprehensive aspects of quality including Performance Testing Strategy and planning, design and development of automated scripts, execution of testing, analyzing results, and metrics reporting.
In their role, the Senior QA Performance Test Engineer is responsible for ensuring systems meet business performance requirements (SLAs) and overall business objectives by tracking and reporting performance test results, performance metrics (response times, error rates, throughput, CPU and memory utilization, latency, and more), identified defects, as well as documenting observations and communicating issues to development staff to assist in their resolution.
Specialized Skills and Technologies
5+ years’ experience in Loadrunner, JMeter, NeoLoad, BlazeMeter, Dynatrace, Splunk, Performance Center, and other performance and monitoring testing tools.
Experience in Application Programming Interface (API) testing along with multi-system integrations
Experience in SAP application testing
Understanding of cloud technologies like Azure or AWS
Primary Responsibilities
Write testing strategies, test scripts and conditions to ensure effective performance test coverage
Execute performance, load, spike, stress, and stability/endurance testing
Utilize data analytics to determine client usage characteristics and user flows
Identify test data requirements and work with other teams as needed to create and maintain test data
Understanding CICD pipelines
Coordinate and schedule testing programs with project and program teams
Reporting testing outcomes to project stakeholders
Assist in the implementation and maintenance of software testing tools
Lead QA projects and teams, become an expert in SGWS technology stack, business processes and data exchanges to help ensure proper test coverage and data integrity across all integration points
Perform quality and testing audits across the various IT functions to ensure quality and testing standards, procedures and methodologies are being followed properly and consistently
Identify, recommend, and implement process improvement opportunities for SGWS quality assurance programs
Stay up to date on software application testing tools and QA best practices
Deliver quality and testing process training to IT staff and project teams
Providing coaching and development to Quality Assurance Analysts, mentor peers, and help them build capabilities
Facilitate Quality Assurance training and education programs for the SGWS team
Coordinating the work of 3rd party Quality Assurance teams
Leading and directing offshore testing programs
Maintain a working knowledge of Quality Assurance leading practices and serve as a thought leader to the SGWS organization
Lead the implementation, build-out, or expansion of automated testing tools
Recommend opportunities to lower testing costs or improve quality through alternative staffing models (e.g., gig, offshore, 3rd party)
Perform quality and testing audits across the various IT functions to ensure quality and testing standards, procedures and methodologies are being followed properly and consistently
Improve the efficiency of QA team, mitigate team conflicts and communication problems
Motivate team members to work collaboratively and effectively
Plan and document succession planning within scope of responsibility
Qualifications
Master’s degree (computer science, information systems, business administration or other industry related curriculum) or combination of education and equivalent experience \
Experience with Mobile testing tools (Appium, BrowerStack)
Working knowledge of relational database technologies and SQL
Strong understanding of database architecture/concepts
Experience working in Agile environment (SAFe ), using DevOps and CD/CI methodology
SAFe Agile certified
Experience executing the regression and performance testing for packaged releases on a defined scheduled timeline coordinating the scheduling and resources
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor’s Degree (computer science, information systems, business administration or other industry related curriculum) or combination of education and equivalent experience
Five (5)+ years serving as a Quality Assurance Performance Engineer
Experience with designing and executing Performance Testing with large-scale platforms (SAP, Salesforce, JDA, etc.)
Demonstrated advanced command using JMeter, LoadRunner, NeoLoad and/or LoadComplete
Experience with monitoring tools (Dynatrace, Performance Center, AppDynamics, JProfiler, Datadog, NinjaOne)
Experience with data analytics tools (Google Analytics, Adobe Analytics, Open Web Analytics)
Strong team player with willingness to collaborate
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Strong capability to execute tasks with quality
Proficient oral and written communication skills
Good time management skills (i.e. works efficiently)
Strong attention to detail
Strong decision-making skills
Experience working with automated testing tools
Solid working knowledge of metrics and models in product quality engineering
Comprehensive understanding of test methodologies and techniques
Experience coordinating and scheduling testing teams
Expertise with software application test planning, execution and related testing tools
Experience working with testing teams that are located offshore
Experience working with third-party Quality Assurance teams
Ability to demonstrate Agile delivery values
Agile Delivery Values
Openness – Team and stakeholders agree to be open about all work and challenges
Commitment – Personally commit to achieving the goals of the team
Respect – Respect your team members to be capable and independent
Courage – You have courage to do the right thing and work on tough problems
Focus – Everyone focus on the work in the sprint and the goal of the scrum team. Rise and fall as a team
Physical Demands
Physical demands include a considerable amount of time sitting and typing/keyboarding, using a computer (e.g., keyboard, mouse, and monitor), or mobile device
Physical demands with activity or condition may occasionally include walking, bending, reaching, standing, squatting, and stooping
May require occasional lifting/lowering, pushing, carrying, or pulling up to 20lbs
EEO Statement
Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits, an Affirmative Action/EEO employer, prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to , , , , , , status, genetics, protected veteran status, , or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training. Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits provides competitive compensation based on estimated performance level consistent with the past relevant experience, knowledge, skills, abilities and education of employees. Unless otherwise expressly stated, any pay ranges posted here are estimates from outside of Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits and do not reflect Southern Glazer's pay bands or ranges.