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

Job Description 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 DevOps “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. Tasks and responsabilities: 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/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; Profile ​ Bachelor or Master degree; +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; Fluent English language knowledge; Interested: Please send you CV to [email protected]