QA Performance Senior Associate

Industry/Sector

Not Applicable

Specialism

Quality Engineering

Management Level

Senior Associate

Job Description & Summary

The Opportunity

Join our Acceleration Center Mexico and help shape the future of business for our diverse client portfolio across geographies and jurisdictions. You’ll work at the heart of global teams across Advisory, Assurance, Tax and Business Services—solving real client challenges through connected collaboration. We’ll help you grow your skills so you can go further. With hands-on learning, cutting-edge tools and an inclusive culture, this is your opportunity to do inspiring work that makes a difference—every day.

As a QA Performance Senior Associate, you will play a pivotal role in implementing leading practice standards of quality within our software development and testing processes. You will leverage your technical experience and creative thinking to identify and resolve defects, optimize performance, and enhance user experience. Within our Advisory practice, you will be at the forefront of driving product innovation to meet the evolving needs of clients.

As a Senior Associate, you will focus on building meaningful client connections and learning how to manage and inspire others. You will navigate increasingly complex situations, growing your personal brand and deepening your technical skills. You are expected to anticipate the needs of your teams and clients, delivering quality solutions even when the path forward isn’t clear. Embracing ambiguity, you will use these moments as opportunities to grow and develop a deeper understanding of the business context.

In this role at PwC Acceleration Center Mexico, you will utilize a broad range of tools, methodologies, and techniques to generate new ideas and solve problems. Your ability to interpret data will inform insights and recommendations, reinforcing professional and technical standards. This is an opportunity to enhance your skills and contribute to innovative software solutions.

Responsibilities

- Serve as a hands-on performance engineering senior technical contributor cross-functional to several Agile scrum teams.
- Prepare Test Data, Workload Models, Test Scenarios, Plan and Execute load, stress, soak, scalability, and endurance tests.
- Conducting performance testing and reliability validation to support software quality assurance
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable E2E UI and API performance tests/scripts and frameworks. Be hands-on and SME in JMeter.
- Collaborating with client teams to understand and anticipate their needs and deliver quality solutions
- Analyzing complex problems and using critical thinking to develop innovative software solutions
- Providing post go-live support and managing release quality assurance activities
- Upholding professional and technical standards in line with firm guidelines and independence requirements
- Mentoring junior team members and guiding them in quality assurance methodologies and practices

What You Must Have

- Bachelor's degree or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
- At least 4 years of experience

- Proven experience in Performance Engineering, Performance Testing, and Optimization.

- Proficiency in performance testing tool - JMeter.

- Knowledge of application performance monitoring tools (e.g., Dynatrace, New Relic, AppDynamics).

- Knowledge of scripting and programming languages (e.g., Python, Java, JavaScript).
- Oral and written proficiency in English required

What Sets You Apart

- Excelling in performance testing and quality assurance methodologies
- Demonstrating proficiency in systems integration and user acceptance testing
- Embracing change and intellectual curiosity in complex environments
- Developing quality assurance process design and evaluation skills
- Engaging in defect reporting and reliability validation
- Applying analytical thinking and creativity to solve problems

Travel Requirements

Up to 20%

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