Performance Tester in Odenton, Maryland at General Dynamics Information Technology

USA MD Home Office (MDHOME)
Full time
RQ227987
Type of Requisition:
Regular

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:
None

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:
None

Public Trust/Other Required:
BI Full 6C (T4)

Job Family:
Professional Engineering

Job Qualifications:

Skills:
Performance Testing, Test Management, Test Scripts
Certifications:
None
Experience:
5 + years of related experience
US Citizenship Required:
No

Job Description:

We are GDIT. The people supporting and securing some of the most complex government, defense, and intelligence projects across the country. We ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. Our work has meaning and impact on the world around us, but also on us, and that's important.

GDIT is your place. You make it your own by embracing autonomy, seizing opportunity, and being trusted to deliver your best every day. We think. We act. We deliver. There is no challenge we can't turn into opportunity. And our work depends on a Salesforce Performance Tester joining our Federal Services System Support and Oversight (FSSSO) program to remotely support the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) activities.

At GDIT, people are our differentiator. As a Salesforce Performance Tester supporting CMS, you will be responsible for evaluating and ensuring the scalability, reliability and responsiveness of Salesforce applications across multiple Salesforce environments. You will plan, design, execute and analyze performance tests across Salesforce Orgs, Integrations, API's and custom components to validate system behavior under peak and sustained loads.

How a Salesforce Performance Tester will Make an Impact:

• Developing performance test strategies specific to Salesforce applications on Service cloud and Experience cloud.
• Building and executing performance test scripts using tools such as JMeter, LoadRunner etc.
• Simulating user loads for Salesforce User Interface, Experience cloud portals, API integrations, and batch/async processes.
• Validating response times, throughput, latency, governor limits, platform events and async queue responses and document performance defects with detailed reproduction steps and logs.
• Capturing, analyzing, and reporting performance metrics related to Apex, SOQL queries, flows, REST/SOAP APIs, LWC Components etc.
• Evaluating integration performances across external API's, AWS/Snowflake data fetches and authentication flows.
• Working with developers, architects and cross functional teams to optimize performance across code, configurations, integrations and caching etc. and to set up more advanced monitoring as need to analyze system performance.
• Validating scalability for high traffic public portals, high volume API's, seasonal surges and enterprise releases.
• Participating in Agile software development initiatives (standup, planning, grooming, estimation) to support innovation and enhancement of applications through iteration/functionality testing.
• Conducting peer reviews of test cases and test documents.

Required Skills:

• Master's degree and 8+ years of hands-on performance testing experience, with at least 4 years of Salesforce performance testing experience.
• Hands on experience working and understanding large, complex Salesforce projects, with proficiency in navigating Salesforce and comprehensive understanding of Salesforce terminology.
• Expertise in QA Test management on Salesforce, including functional and non-functional testing, and executing Test Plans and Regression Test Suites, including UI, back end, components and integrations, using Web and API automation
• Hands-on experience developing automation test scripts from scratch and performing other test automation activities.
• Experience using tools like Micro Focus/OpenText, Performance Center (LoadRunner), Selenium Webdriver, and/or Cucumber with RESTful services, integrating them with Jenkins/GitHub.
• Expert experience developing testing documentation, such as Test Summary Reports and requirements traceability reports, and analyzing performance test reports to identify application and infrastructure performance issues and bottlenecks as well as assess and optimize network performance for maximum efficiency.
• Knowledge of API integration performance testing (REST, SOAP, GraphQL).
• Excellent oral and written communication and presentation skills, with a demonstrated ability to communicate complex technical topics to various stakeholders, management levels, and non-technical audiences
• Candidate must be willing and able to obtain a CMS Public Trust clearance (T4).
• Candidate must have lived in the United States at least three (3) out of the last five (5) years.

Preferred Skills:

• Salesforce Experience Cloud Consultant certification preferred
• Experience testing Salesforce-to-Snowflake ETL/ELT pipeline performance.
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipeline integration for automated performance testing.
• Experience working and/or interfacing with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
• Ability to resolve issues with little oversight; ability to gather and analyze information skillfully and develop alternative solutions.
• Proficiency with data exchange tools and technologies including APIs.
• Experience understanding and interpreting customer business requirements, writing functional test cases and performing software quality tests.
• Experience with proactive monitoring of enterprise environments using technologies, such as New Relic, AppDynamics, DynaTrace, and/or Splunk.
• Expert understanding of Salesforce best practices.
• Experience testing real-time data sync vs batch processing performance trade-offs
• Experience working in a Scrum and/or SAFe Agile environment.
• Salesforce Administration experience.
• Experince using JMeter.
• Expert experience with defect tracking tools such as JIRA.

GDIT IS YOUR PLACE
At GDIT, the mission is our purpose, and our people are at the center of everything we do.

• Growth: AI-powered career tool that identifies career steps and learning opportunities
• Support: An internal mobility team focused on helping you achieve your career goals
• Rewards: Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages, 401K with company match, and competitive pay and paid time off
• Community: Award-winning culture of innovation and a military-friendly workplace

OWN YOUR OPPORTUNITY
Explore a career at GDIT and you'll find endless opportunities to grow alongside colleagues who share your ambition to deliver your best work.

The likely salary range for this position is $119,000 - $161,000. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Scheduled Weekly Hours:
40

Travel Required:
Less than 10%

Telecommuting Options:
Remote

Work Location:
Any Location / Remote

Additional Work Locations:

Total Rewards at GDIT:
Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. GDIT typically provides new employees with 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness and an additional 10 paid holidays per year. Paid leave and paid holidays are prorated based on the employee's date of hire. The GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.

Our Identity Verification Process:
As part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during virtual interviews. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud. By proceeding, you authorize the collection, processing, and use of your biometric data for identity verification and security purposes.

About Our Work:
We are GDIT. A global technology and professional services company that delivers technology solutions and mission services to every major agency across the U.S. government, defense and intelligence community. Our 26,000 experts extract the power of technology to create immediate value and deliver solutions at the edge of innovation. We operate across 50+ countries worldwide, offering leading mission-ready capabilities in AI, cloud, cyber and software development.

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