Senior Performance Tester
Summary
The Senior Performance Tester will design and execute performance testing strategies for a global banking client's infrastructure migration project. The role involves using Java, LoadRunner, JMeter, and DevOps tools to ensure application stability and performance within Kubernetes and microservices environments.
Project description
The Migration Project for our Global Banking Client is an internal enterprise-wide infrastructure and application modernization initiative. The project primarily focuses on upgrading, refactoring, and migrating business-critical legacy applications to updated backend frameworks and reliable data center configurations.
Responsibilities
- Collaborates with other engineers to develop testing and monitoring approaches
- Focuses on assurance in the areas of error rates, response times, and impact to infrastructure
- Designs, scripts, configures, and run performance tests to validate production readiness of software applications and infrastructure for stability and performance
- Conditions test data as needed to properly simulate test scenarios
- Supports testing needs of new projects, infrastructure upgrades, and application enhancements by validating application functionality against documented test cases
- Diagnoses, tracks, and manages performance issues to resolution
- Uses dashboards that enable efficient monitoring of applications and systems running in production environments to troubleshoot issues and report findings
- Provides summaries and assessments of the applications performance, emphasizing trends over time
- Conducts deep dive analysis of data when trends or anomalies are identified
- Collaborates with AD teams during story design to ensure new application features are developed in a performant manner.
SKILLS
Must have
- 7+ years full time Performance Testing and Engineering experience
- Hands-on experience in Java programming - should be able to create custom apps/tools for performance testing and monitoring
- Strong experience in implementing end to end performance testing/engineering solutions - requirement gathering, test planning, test execution and monitoring, result reporting/analysis/tuning.
- Strong hands-on experience in following load test tools - LoadRunner, JMeter and
- Strong experience in Openshift/Kubernetes/microservices
- Hands-on experience in DevOps tools like Jenkins, Azure DevOps (ADO) etc., including writing pipelines and integrating performance tests into CI/CD workflows
Nice to have
• Experience in container (Docker, Podman) and container orchestration (Kubernetes) platform • Exposure to Generative AI and knowledge/experience in implementing relevant AI solutions for Performance Engineering