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Founded in 1986, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut, and has offices worldwide. More than 23,000 financial services and healthcare organizations, from the world's largest companies to small and mid-market firms, rely on SS&C for expertise, scale, and technology.\nJob Description\nTitle: Senior Performance Test Engineer\nLocation: Melbourne/Sydney, Australia || Hybrid\nJob Type: Full Time || Permanent\nJob Description\nGet To Know Us:\nSS&C is a leading provider of mission-critical, AI-powered technology and services empowering financial services and healthcare organizations to work smarter, faster, and securely. Founded in 1986, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut, and has offices worldwide. More than 23,000 financial services and healthcare organizations, from the world's largest companies to small and mid-market firms, rely on SS&C for expertise, scale, and technology.\nSS&C GIDS provides information processing and computer software services and products. The Company’s operating segments include financial markets, customer management, professional services, and output solutions. SS&C GIDS serves the alternative investments, asset and wealth management, banking and lending, insurance, and real estate industries.\nWhy You Will Love It Here!\nFlexibility: Hybrid Work Model\nYour Future: Income Protection Insurance & Salary Continuance\nWork/Life Balance: Generous Bereavement & Compassionate leave.\nYour Wellbeing: Private Health Insurance discount, Primary & Secondary Paid Parental leave, Death & TPD Insurance\nDiversity & Inclusion: Committed to Welcoming, Celebrating and Thriving on Diversity\nTraining: Hands-On, Team-Customized, including SS&C University\nExtra Perks: Discounts on fitness clubs, travel and more!\nPlease note: Candidate must be an Australian citizen or permanent resident. This role is based in Melbourne/Sydney.\nWhat You Will Get to Do:\nWe are experiencing rapidly growing demand for performance testing, driven by new, complex migration programs and the expansion of our technology platform. We are seeking a Senior Performance Test Engineer with 10+ years proven experience in complex, high volume enterprise systems and strong LoadRunner background to join our team with a shared passion for performance excellence. The role covers performance testing of our expanding .NET-based solution, combining business critical batch and online systems with new microservices and cloud technologies.\nKey responsibilities of this role include:\nSelf-managed full performance test life cycle: define test requirements and scope, planning/schedule, test scenario and build, execution, monitor, analysis and reporting of accurate results and status to target audiences within timeframes.\nCollaboration with delivery teams to resolve performance defects.\nDelivery of all test artefacts including Test Plan, Progress Reports, and Test Summary Reports to certify Releases to Production. \nActive participation in performance risk identification (business and technical impact) and mitigation actions, establishment of performance NFRs and benchmarks.\nDevelop a deep understanding of our products, services, and technology to effectively communicate and bridge the performance gap between business and technical teams.\nDrive and define performance testing strategy, process, and tools for efficient and effective Program delivery, and to align with industry standards.\nBuild and optimize automated performance test pipelines to reduce cost & increase coverage.\nOwnership of test environment and capacity planning.\nAbility to work collaboratively in a cross functional, multi-region team located in AU and India. Flexibility to attend meetings/workshop at reasonable overlapped hours.\nWhat You Will Bring:\nTechnical Skills\n10+ years in performance test engineering role which includes microservices and cloud-based technology.\nPreferred experience within superannuation, wealth management or other financial services (e.g. the Big 4 banks) domain.\nMastery of Performance Test Tools: Knowledge of scripting languages and the ability to write code for test automation. Mandatory: Microfocus LoadRunner HTTP Protocol - C coding + manual correlation. Desirable: JMeter, Gatling, K6 etc. Database languages: MS SQL, Postgres\nMonitoring and Analysis: Mandatory: LoadRunner Analysis. Desirable: Microsoft perfmon, Grafana\n\nStrong understanding and hands-on technology experience with the following:Operating System: Windows Server, Database: SQL Server 2019+, Application Development Platforms: .NET.\nCloud-based: Microservices: architecture, principles, and best practices. Kubernetes: Container orchestration and management, including deployment strategies, scaling, and resource management.\n\nContinuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD): Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and how to integrate performance testing into the CI/CD process.\nProficiency with Confluence and JIRA\nProficiency with version control GIT\nExperience working in Agile or Scrum development environments where rapid iterations and continuous improvement are practiced.\nEducation and qualification: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related discipline.\nPersonal Attributes\nStrong analytical, statistical, and presentational skills and critical thinking to identify and solve complex problems.\nExceptional attention to detail. Understanding task objectives and expected outcomes.\nStrong interpersonal skills and the ability to build relationships with both technical and non-technical audiences at all organizational levels.\nClear, concise, consistent written and verbal communication, demonstrating understanding of target audiences and stakeholders.\nStrategic and critical thinker to anticipate risks, resolve complex blockers, drive effective delivery. \n\nMaintain awareness of external activities/schedules, factors, events, etc. that may influence or impact deliverables. Manage impact and stakeholder expectations on deliverables.\nAbility to work independently and in team environments.\nAdaptability and willingness to learn new technologies.\nIf you’re ready to bring your expertise to a collaborative team and lead impactful QA initiatives, we’d love to hear from you!\nWe encourage applications from people of all backgrounds to enable us to bring diverse perspectives to our thinking and conversation. It's important to us that we strive to have a workforce that is diverse in the widest sense.\nThank you for your interest in SS&C! If applicable, to further explore this opportunity, please apply directly with us through our Careers page on our corporate website @ www.ssctech.com/careers\nUnless explicitly requested or approached by SS&C Technologies, Inc. or any of its affiliated companies, the company will not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services.\nApplications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.\nSS&C Technologies is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any applicant for employment or employee on the basis of race, color, religious creed, gender, age, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other classification protected by applicable discrimination laws.","description_format":"text","description_chars":7471,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":10,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Health insurance","Hybrid work","Parental leave"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"India","iso":"IN","kind":"country"},{"name":"Australia","iso":"AU","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Health Care","Workflow & Process Automation (RPA, BPM)","Financial Software & Embedded Finance","Custody & Fund Administration"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-13T08:19:37Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":15,"reasons":["conf:1","win:early","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-13T19:17:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/ssc-technologies-senior-performance-test-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/ssc-technologies-senior-performance-test-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-13T19:17:00Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":29410,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-14T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":6013},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=6013"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fssc-technologies-senior-performance-test-engineer"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fssc-technologies-senior-performance-test-engineer"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fssc-technologies-senior-performance-test-engineer"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/ssc-technologies-senior-performance-test-engineer\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fssc-technologies-senior-performance-test-engineer"}]}