Lead performance testing initiatives by designing strategies, conducting tests using tools like LoadRunner, and mentoring team members to ensure optimal application performance.
Performance Testing (Architect)
About MassMutual
Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company (MassMutual) is a leading mutual life insurance company that is run for the benefit of its members and participating policy owners. MassMutual offers a wide range of financial products and services, including life insurance, disability insurance, long-term care insurance, annuities, retirement plans and other employee benefits. MassMutual is headquartered in Springfield.
Responsibilities:
Technical Proficiency
Analytical & Diagnostic Skills
Strategic & Leadership Capabilities
Operational & Process Skills
Soft Skills
Skill Set required -
Added:
Experience: • 10 to 14 years
About MassMutual
Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company (MassMutual) is a leading mutual life insurance company that is run for the benefit of its members and participating policy owners. MassMutual offers a wide range of financial products and services, including life insurance, disability insurance, long-term care insurance, annuities, retirement plans and other employee benefits. MassMutual is headquartered in Springfield.
Responsibilities:
Technical Proficiency
- Performance Testing Tools: Extensive experience with industry-standard tools, particularly LoadRunner (10+ Years) , which forms the core of my performance testing expertise. Familiarity with additional tools such as JMeter, Gatling, and Blaze Meter is a valuable complement.
- Monitoring & Observability: Proficient in platforms like Newrelic, Grafana, AppDynamics, Dynatrace, and Prometheus for analyzing system behavior, identifying anomalies, and correlating performance metrics with application performance.
- System Architecture Understanding: Solid understanding of distributed systems, microservices, container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes), and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), enabling the design of scalable and realistic test environments.
- CI/CD Integration: Skilled in embedding performance testing into DevOps pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, GitHub, and others.
Analytical & Diagnostic Skills
- Bottleneck Identification: Adept at analyzing logs, metrics, and traces to isolate performance issues and determine root causes.
- KPI Interpretation: Strong command of key performance indicators including response time, throughput, error rates, and resource utilization.
- Capacity Planning: Experienced in forecasting system behavior under load and planning for scalability and resilience.
Strategic & Leadership Capabilities
- Test Strategy Design: Proven ability to define performance test strategies aligned with non-functional requirements (NFRs) such as stability, scalability, and user experience.
- Stakeholder Communication: Skilled in translating technical findings into actionable insights for both business and technical stakeholders.
- Mentorship & Team Enablement: Committed to guiding junior team members, promoting knowledge sharing, and fostering a performance-focused culture.
- Leadership in Critical Communication: Capable of leading high-stakes or sensitive discussions with professionalism and empathy-maintaining clarity, assertiveness, and courtesy, especially when setting boundaries or declining requests.
Operational & Process Skills
- Environment Readiness & Coordination: Ensure production-like test environments, coordinate with infrastructure teams, and manage test data effectively.
- Risk Management: Proactively identify and mitigate risks such as unstable environments, missing credentials, or late-stage engagements.
- Vendor Management: Serve as the primary contact for tool-related issues (e.g., LRE SaaS), including vendor coordination and license oversight.
Soft Skills
- Problem Solving: Quick to adapt and resolve test failures or environment-related challenges.
- Collaboration: Work cross-functionally with developers, architects, and QA leads to aligning performance goals with delivery timelines and fostering a collaborative work environment.
- Documentation & Reporting: Create comprehensive test plans, execution reports, and closure summaries that support informed decision-making.
Skill Set required -
- Performance Testing Tools: Mastery of LoadRunner (10+ Years)
- Monitoring & Observability: Experience with NewRelic, Grafana, AppDynamics, Dynatrace, Prometheus
- Scripting & Protocols: Proficiency in scripting (VuGen) and protocols like Web HTTP/HTML, Web Services, and REST APIs.
- CI/CD & Automation: Jenkins, GitHub
- Test Management Tools: JIRA, Confluence
- Experience in Waterfall, Agile and DevOps SDLCS
Added:
- Involved into any Data center migration.
- Architecture level experience, understand the impact of complex infrastructural changes/impact
Experience: • 10 to 14 years
Top Skills
Appdynamics
AWS
Azure
Blaze Meter
Confluence
Dynatrace
Gatling
GCP
Git
Grafana
Jenkins
JIRA
Jmeter
Loadrunner
Newrelic
Prometheus
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