Performance Test Engineer

Core Banking Migration 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.
•
o Apache JMeter (JMeter)
o HP LoadRunner
o Performance Testing
• Mandatory Skills Description:
- 9+ 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 Skills Description:
- 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.