Performance Test Engineer

Project description

Performance Test Engineer role to support Digital Banking program for a leading Australian banking customer. The role involves ensuring the performance, scalability, reliability, and stability of critical banking applications, batch processes, and data warehouse workloads through end-to-end performance engineering and testing activities.

Responsibilities

• - Develop and maintain performance test strategies, plans, and execution schedules. - Design performance test scenarios and workload models aligned to business requirements. - Create and manage performance test data for various testing cycles. - Develop, execute, and maintain performance test scripts using JMeter. - Conduct performance, load, stress, and endurance testing. - Analyse test results, identify bottlenecks, and provide optimization recommendations. - Prepare and present Test Summary Reports (TSRs) and performance assessment findings. - Integrate performance testing within Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines. - Collaborate with development, infrastructure, and project teams to resolve performance issues. - Support testing of batch processing and data warehouse solutions. - Participate in defect triage, root cause analysis, and performance tuning activities.

SKILLS

Must have

• - 5+ years of hands-on experience in Performance Testing and Performance Engineering across large-scale enterprise applications. - Strong expertise in designing, developing, and executing performance test scripts using Apache JMeter. - Proven experience integrating performance testing into Azure DevOps pipelines and CI/CD delivery processes. - Experience performing performance testing for batch processing systems and Data Warehouse platforms. - Strong capability in test data creation, management, and preparation for performance test execution. - Expertise in developing performance test strategies, plans, and execution approaches. - Experience designing workload models and realistic performance test scenarios based on business volumes. - Proficiency in performance test script development, execution, and execution management. - Strong ability to analyse performance test results, identify bottlenecks, and provide optimisation recommendations. - Experience preparing comprehensive Test Summary Reports (TSRs) and communicating test outcomes to stakeholders. - Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis skills across application and infrastructure layers. - Strong stakeholder management and communication skills with the ability to engage technical and business teams. - Experience working within Agile, DevOps, and Continuous Delivery environments.

Nice to have

- Knowledge of Service Virtualisation tools, preferably Tricentis Tosca OSV. - Prior experience in the Banking and Payments domain. - Experience in large-scale Core Banking transformation or migration programs. - Exposure to cloud-based performance engineering practices. - Experience leading performance testing engagements across multiple application teams.