Performance Tester

Performance Engineering SME (min 4 years exp) Job Profile Role Purpose As a PE SME, you will be focusing on performance engineering to ensure system performance, reliability, capacity and scalability of digital applications (based on AWS and On-Prem), develop and maintain performance test strategy and test development in line with the Agile development process. In this role, you will lead performance testing & engineering efforts for Personal Banking pods and engineering disciplines. The successful candidate also acts as POC for key stakeholders Principle Accountabilities: Strong sense of ownership and accountability for quality deliverables and Performance engineering-related activities within the agile development lifecycle. Design and implement solutions to evaluate and improve performance and scalability of Web Apps / Platforms and platform level applications Represent Performance Engineering across the project and be accountable for defining, shaping and agreeing on the testing schedules in the context of the whole project schedules Accountable for the successful launch of scalable Platform Products, Engineering Initiatives, alignment for Cloud deployments Ability to resolve Performance testing related impediments together with the scrum team/ pods Provide technical expertise in performance requirements analysis, design, effort estimation, testing and delivery of scalable solutions Ability to engage with senior stakeholders and be able to build effective relationships, trust and understanding through the management of testing and the related risks Participate in design and architectural review of the Engineering eco-system to voice performance and scalability concerns Active contribution to evolving the overall Digital/ Channels Transformations Performance Engineering and test strategy Develop tools and processes to performance test software applications using various industry standard tools to automate simulation of expected user workloads to identify performance bottlenecks with the usage of monitoring tools Execute and Analyse test results and establish reliable statistical models for response time, throughput, network utilization and other application performance metrics Ability to build relationships and successful teams located in other geographies and deliver maximum productivity Working in an agile environment, DevOps team or a similar multi-skilled team in a technically demanding function Jenkins and CI CD Pipelines including Pipeline scripting Programming and scripting language skills in Java, Shell, Scala, Groovy, Python and knowledge of security mechanisms such as OAuth etc. Tools like GitHub, Jira & Confluence Assisting with Resiliency Production support teams and Performance Incident Root Cause Analysis Ability to prioritize work effectively and deliver within agreed service levels in a diverse and ever-changing environment High levels of judgment and decision making, being able to rationalize and present the background and reasoning for direction taken Strong stakeholder management and excellent communication skills. Extensive knowledge of risk management and mitigation Strong analytical and problem-solving skills