Performance Test Specialist, Operations & Shared Services, IKEA IT AB

Have you ever thought about the side effects of having an unreliable performance for only a few minutes on a system that thousands of users are using when helping thousands of customers?

We are looking for a new colleague to join our team and be part of testing our IT solutions´ performance. We think you are triggered by finding the root cause to poor performance in complex processes and global IT landscapes and also eager to find new ways to build fast IT solutions for the future. Are you the one we are looking for?

IKEA is on an exciting growth journey becoming more accessible to the many people. We are investing heavily to develop IKEA into the future. This means for example delivering one of the world’s biggest multichannel programs. It also means developing a number of solutions to meet the needs of our customer and co-workers today and tomorrow.

Challenges and questions we work with within our team:
- How many customers can use our system simultaneously without interfering with their shopping experience or even worse cause down time?
- How does our location of servers in Sweden affect the response time for our customers in Russia?
- How can we earlier in our processes design, develop and test to receive higher performance? Work within performance engineering
I- s there a limit for speed today and tomorrow? How can fast get faster?

As a Performance Test Specialist you will deliver performance test to business solutions and projects. This could be early benchmark tests or full scale performance test as final verification before the service is put into production to the end users.
You will plan, design, develop scripts, execute and report on full scale performance tests. The goal of the service is to verify the non-functional requirements prior to launch in Production.

You will also provide test coaching and support to secure common and efficient ways of working with performance test and related tools. You will provide specific test consultation and advice to releases and projects, such as support in software design, risk workshops and review of non-functional requirements.

The tools mainly used at IKEA are HP Performance Center, HP UFT and HP ALM. It is an advantage if you have experience working with HP Performance Center (Load runner).

You will be part of a team with a lot of energy, experience and high service mind-set always looking for improvements to support the growing and future IKEA. The TestCenter supports more than 300 different IT services and projects in IKEA IT with test competence, test services and tools.
This position is placed in Helsingborg or Älmhult, Sweden.

So, what do you say! Do you want to join our amazing test family?

We are looking for a person who wants to grow into the role as Performance test specialist or an experienced specialist ready for new challenges!

We value your analytical, technical and reflective mind-set for this role combined with a great personality with a strong drive to keep developing yourself, with your team and IKEA.

Apart from your technical skills, we want you to be service minded, structured and driven with an ability to connect and build trustful relationships with people both internally and externally of IKEA. You will work close together with your team and be part of many different exiting projects, it is therefore important that you are a team player and have the ability to see and communicate risks, trends and findings in an inclusive way, even for people who are not as technically skilled as you.

We also think you:
- Want to find the root cause to problems & understand how things are connected
- Have good knowledge of some of the programming languages and techniques, like C, C++, and C #, Java, VB Script and SQL
- Have knowledge of the different infrastructure components, for example Windows, UNIX, Linux, network and databases
- Have a strong technical interest and enjoy exploring new technologies!

IKEA offers an exciting and empowering work environment in a global marketplace. And as the world’s leader at life a home, you have exceptional opportunities to grow and develop together with us.

If you have any questions regarding this position, please contact Nathalie Malmholm at [email protected]. In some cases recruitment processes may take time, so we kindly ask you to be patient in this regard. If you have any questions about the actual recruitment process, please contact our HR Service Centre, +46 (0) 476 587 500.

Please send your application in English and note that we do not accept applications by email.

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