Location
Chennai | India
Job description
Job Description
Architect
Qualification :
Bachelors in engineering or equivalent
Responsibility :
Requirement Gathering/ Analysis :
- Understand application, technologies involved in application.
- Collect nonfunctional requirements (such as response time, throughput numbers, user load, etc) through discussions with SMEs, business users.
- Analyse production/ application logs to understand usage pattern and derive nonfunctional requirements.
- Identify businesscritical testable scenarios and derive workload model for same.
- Identify opportunities to adopt PACE Solution accelerators and provide feedback based on requirement analysis.
- Share inputs from project planning perspective with Test Lead/Architect (in case of longterm projects).
- Review requirements and provide inputs on proposal with architect (In case of shortterm projects).
- Participate in KT calls to understand the requirements.
Design and Development/ Execution and Recommendation :
- Design and Development (Test execution/ Planning): Review test plan prepared by Test Analyst and recommend appropriate test to be conducted, environment to be used etc.
- Identify tools that to be used.
- Develop proof of concept for particular scenarios, if required and seek approval from Architect.
- Review test scripts developed by test engineer/ test analyst to ensure alignment with test strategy.
- Review test environment setup and test data prepared by engineer.
- Design and Development (SDLC): Conduct code profiling to identify bottlenecks and troubleshoot same.
- Provide recommendations to developer on code constructs to optimise performance.
Test Execution and Recommendation :
Interpret test results, identify bottlenecks and suggest additional diagnostic tests that need to be conducted to uncover performance issues
Knowledge Sharing :
- Conduct knowledge sharing sessions on new technologies with other teams.
- Create case study and associated collaterals on completed projects.
- Provide inputs on evaluations tools/ technologies that can be used to Architect.
- Organize KT sessions for new team members.
- Mentor ELTs and new joinees.
- Attend selftraining to ensure high standards of communication and business etiquette are maintained always.
- Support in maintaining the CoE website.
- Collect and present technical artefacts on performance and scalability from various sources.
- Contribute to knowledge repository and tools.
- Identify opportunities to adopt PACE Solution accelerators and provide feedback to improve the same.
Enablement Activities :
- a) Learn and Understand one under each category of the following technologies.
- a Appserver Websphere/Weblogic/Tomcat/JBOSS.
- b Language Java/Net/C++/Perl/C#.
- c Database Oracle/DB2/SQL/MYSQL.
- d Operating System Windows / Unix.
- b) Complete PE L0 CCP on Performance Engineering.
- c) Learn and understand Performance testing, NFR management and profiling concepts.
- d) For Mainframe associates, Learn and understand mainframe related technologies and AS400.
- a Load Testing like LoadRunner/Webload/OpenSTA/Silk Performer.
- b Profiling like Jprofiler/Optimizit/DotTrace/Jprobe.
- c Analysis Tools like GCViewer/ Heap analyzer / Thread Analyzer Statspack/DBMon/SQLProfiler.
- d Monitoring Tools like NetMon/PerfMon/Unix perfmonitoring.
Architecture & Design of Applications :
- a Understand Design patterns.
- Specific design patters for specific technologies (eg EJB Design patters etc) should be mastered Understanding of where to use them and their advantages and disadvantages.
- b Understand Data Modeling.
- Data Modeling for OLTP and OLAP databases Basic concepts for efficient data.
- modeling including Normalization and Denormalization.
- c Understand the Internals of One Application Server, One Operating System and One.
Must Have Skills
Good To Have Skills
Employee Status : Fixed Term Contractor
Shift : Day Job
Travel : No
Job Posting : Sep 14 2021
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