Senior Performance Testing Engineer (Banking)

Key Responsibilities

Performance Testing & Execution

• Design, develop, and execute performance, load, stress, endurance, and scalability test scenarios.
• Develop automated performance test scripts using tools such as JMeter, LoadRunner, Gatling, or similar.
• Establish test data, test environments, and workload models based on real user behaviors.
• Conduct root-cause analysis for performance issues and provide optimization recommendations.

Analysis & Reporting

• Analyze system metrics (CPU, memory, I/O, database performance, network utilization) using APM tools (e.g., Dynatrace, AppDynamics, New Relic).
• Prepare detailed performance reports highlighting findings, bottlenecks, risks, and improvement actions.
• Benchmark system performance across releases and track performance KPIs over time.

Collaboration & Technical Support

• Work closely with developers, architects, DevOps, and product teams to validate performance requirements and ensure system readiness.
• Participate in architecture and design reviews to provide performance-related insights.
• Guide junior engineers on performance engineering best practices and tools.

Performance Engineering & Optimization

• Recommend improvements to system design, database queries, API tuning, caching strategies, and infrastructure scaling.
• Support continuous performance monitoring and early detection of performance degradation in production.

Required Qualifications

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.

Experience

• 5–8+ years of hands-on experience in performance testing and performance engineering.
• Strong experience with performance testing tools (JMeter, LoadRunner, Gatling, etc.).
• Solid experience in scripting (Java, Python, JavaScript, or similar).
• Experience working with microservices, APIs, cloud environments, and distributed systems