Innovation Hub I Quality and performance Testing Tech Lead, Cairo, Egypt

Egypt | Posted on 17-Mar-2024

Position Summary

Location
Cairo, Egypt Delivery Center

Quality and performance Testing Tech Lead, Cairo, Egypt

Connect to your career at Deloitte.

Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, that covers audit, risk advisory, and consulting services across tax, legal, business, technology, and corporate finance, we help our clients’ become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.

What brings us all together at Deloitte? It’s how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other, foster inclusion, and collaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most. Collaborate for measurable impact.

Connect to your opportunity.

Deloitte provide premium quality and test engineering services to a wide range of global clients, solving the most complex testing challenges on their most significant and highest profile IT change programmes. Our team has grown rapidly over recent years, and continues to do so, combining a wealth of deep industry knowledge with both business advisory experience and technical expertise.Our proposition differs from our competitors as we are not purely delivery focused, we pride ourselves on providing a more consultative and strategic approach to testing which results in our clients experiencing a higher touch service.

Business Operations

Want to work with the latest technologies, as part of a team helping international organisations transform their core business capabilities? Whether you’re working with on-premise systems, Cloud technology, or custom-developed solutions (to name just a few), your expertise will help clients deliver continuous improvement and innovation, from initial design right through to implementation and optimization.

Your role

As a performance test senior consultant within the Delivery team responsible for helping our clients to identify and implement the most appropriate and efficient testing solutions for their needs, drawing upon our wide range of expertise and experience. You will get the chance to work with top tier clients across a range of sectors, providing high quality test advisory and delivery services. This an excellent opportunity to join a rapidly growing team that has a unique position in the test consultancy market.

Responsibilities will include:

  • Defining large and complex performance test approaches for test delivery.
  • Working with business and technical stakeholders to understand and clarify the Non-functional Requirements.
  • Providing advice on testing tools and leveraging them effectively within a testing activity.
  • Reviewing non-functional test practices and coaching the team on improvement opportunities.
  • Working with other technical teams to identify and deliver the required test environments, data, tools and monitors.
  • Managing test delivery, ensuring the testing meets quality, time and cost objectives.
  • Working with key stakeholders at the client, building strong trusted relationships.
  • Reviewing test processes and practices and coaching the team on enhancement opportunities.
  • Supporting our industry and proposition Testing leads to develop & implement existing & new go-to-market propositions.
  • Contribute to Deloitte’s thought leadership in Testing.


Connect to your skills and professional experience.

In order to succeed in this role, you will need the following:

To qualify for the role Consultants must have:

• 6+ years experience with strong understanding of the performance testing lifecycle from planning through to test execution and reporting.
• Experience of testing within an agile delivery environment.
• Providing advice on testing tools and leveraging them effectively within a testing activity.
• Proven commercial experience of writing, maintaining and executing performance test scripts.
• Performance test tool expertise, e.g. JMeter / Gatling / K6/ LoadRunner / NeoLoad.
• Experience of working with and understanding solution architecture for cloud applications, e.g. AWS / Azure / GCP.
• AWS Cloud Certified, other cloud providers also beneficial.
• Deep understanding of application monitoring and tools expertise (such as Dynatrace and AppDynamics).
• Client-facing experience
• ISTQB Foundation Level certificate (or equivalent experience)
• Test management tool expertise (such as JIRA or HP ALM)
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Proven technical ability – combined with strong business acumen
• Acute attention to detail
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced and often changeable client environment
• Strong academic record
• Proven ability to lead small teams

Additional desirable experience includes:

• A proven track record in a top tier consultancy.
• Strong Agile experience, Scrum/Kanban knowledge.
• Experience with protocol-based monitoring tools e.g. Fiddler.
• Demonstrable experience of systems tuning and optimization.
• Exposure to NFT in a DevOps environment.

Connect to your service line.

Consulting Our people and the way we work are the two things that set us apart in the consulting universe. For us, collaboration is fundamental to success, along with an unrivalled depth and breadth of expertise. We work closely with our clients and each other, at every stage of every project, solving our clients’ trickiest problems with a mix of knowledge, creativity and intellectual rigour. A hugely diverse range of clients rely on us to deliver the kind of change that adds genuine, lasting value to their business.

Personal independence.

Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to several audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints. This can mean that you and your "Immediate Family Members" are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm. The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process.

Connect to your Industry.

“What attracted me to Deloitte were the endless opportunities and the collective experience of other like-minded individuals. Deloitte’s clients include many of the world’s largest organizations; I wanted to be part of a team that made a difference that I could be proud of.” Dan, Consulting

Connect with your colleagues.

Location: Cairo. Egypt

Hybrid working model (2-3 from office). We trust you to make the right choices around where, when, and how you work. You’ll be able to make decisions about how you work best, to be collaborative, learn from colleagues, share your experiences, build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritize your wellbeing. Having great conversations with your team and your leadership paves the way for great collaborative ways of working. 

Our commitment to you.

Making an impact is more than just what we do: it’s why we’re here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before.

We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective, and personality. So, we’re nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we’ll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it’s only when you’re comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for.

Your expertise is our capability, so we’ll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it’s from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you’ll learn every day. Through world-class development, you’ll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you’ll learn how to lead.

Connect to your next step.

A career at Deloitte is an opportunity to develop in any direction you choose. Join us and you’ll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see. You’ll be free to bring your true self to work every day. And you’ll never stop growing, whatever your level.