Sunday, December 4, 2011

Skills for Performance Testing

Earlier I have written about Skills for Automation. Here I attempted to write about the skills for Performance Testing. Because performance testing is very dynamic and has vast areas in different technologies and concepts. It requires different level of of depth knowledge depends on project requirements and environment. It required different technical and non-technical stuff on the job.

Skills for Performance Testing

  • Analytical skills
  • Scripting
  • Operating System Concepts
  • Networking concepts
  • Memory Management concepts
  • Database Concepts
  • Hardware concepts
  • Protocols concepts
  • Debugging
  • Log Analysis
  • Documentation

Suggesting following links...
SQAForums's post - Need opinion from exp. load testers- skillset
Technical Skills For Performance Testers
What Skills Performance Testers Need and How to Get Them?