Senior Performance Tester

* Create performance test scripts and maintain existing ones

* Run performance tests, analyze results and create reports to summarize findings and recommendations

* Investigate performance issues and find their root causes

* Work with developers, architects, technical support teams and functional testers to understand applications in detail and discover ways to optimize performance

* Communicate with project managers, product owners and business analysts to accurately report performance test status

* Work with business stakeholders to define non-functional requirements, advising them when necessary

* Plan and estimate effort required for performance testing

* Review the performance testing process and work with the existing team members to suggest and implement improvements

* Look for ways to involve performance testing earlier in the software lifecycle, in both Agile and waterfall-based projects

* Mentoring junior performance testers from the team