Job Purpose:
We are seeking a skilled Performance Test Engineer with strong expertise in Micro Focus LoadRunner and proven experience in the Banking & Financial Services sector. The role is responsible for ensuring the scalability, stability, and performance of mission-critical banking applications through effective performance engineering, testing, analysis, and optimization.
Key Accountabilities:
- Design, develop, and execute performance, load, stress, endurance, and scalability tests.
- Build, maintain, and optimize LoadRunner scripts using VuGen, Controller, and Analysis.
- Develop realistic workload models that simulate production-like user activities and transaction volumes.
- Conduct performance testing for web applications, REST APIs, SOAP Web Services, and IBM WebSphere MQ integrations.
- Analyze test results and identify performance bottlenecks across applications, middleware, databases, and infrastructure layers.
- Collaborate with development, infrastructure, middleware, and database teams to resolve performance issues.
- Monitor system behavior during testing and provide recommendations for performance optimization.
- Prepare performance test strategies, execution plans, and detailed test reports.
- Support performance tuning activities and validate performance improvements.
- Ensure applications meet defined performance, scalability, and availability requirements before production deployment.
- Participate in release readiness assessments and production performance validation.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
- Strong understanding of software testing and performance engineering principles.
- Performance Testing certifications.
Minimum Experience:
- 4+ years of hands-on experience in Performance Testing.
- Proven experience within Banking or Financial Services environments.
- Strong practical experience with Micro Focus LoadRunner.
- Experience testing enterprise-grade applications, APIs, and distributed systems.
- Experience analyzing and troubleshooting application performance issues.
Job-Specific Skills:
- Load Testing.
- Stress Testing.
- Endurance (Soak) Testing.
- Scalability Testing.
- Capacity Planning.
- Workload Modeling.
- Performance Analysis and Reporting.
- Bottleneck Identification and Root Cause Analysis.
- VuGen.
- Controller.
- Analysis.
- LoadRunner Enterprise / Performance Center (Preferred).
- Correlation.
- Parameterization.
- Runtime Settings.
- Scenario Design and Execution.
- REST APIs.
- SOAP Web Services.
- IBM WebSphere MQ.
- HTTP/HTML Protocols.
- Java Record & Replay.
- Dynatrace (Preferred).
- AppDynamics (Preferred).
- SiteScope.
- Splunk.
- Grafana.
- Prometheus.
- Performance Monitoring and Diagnostics.
- SQL Query Analysis.
- Database Performance Validation.
- Application Performance Troubleshooting.
- Web and Enterprise Application Architectures.
- Client-Server and Distributed Systems Performance Analysis.
- Digital Banking Platforms.
- Core Banking Applications.
- Payment Systems.
- High-Volume Transaction Processing.
- Banking Performance and Availability Requirements.
- LoadRunner Professional Certification.
- ISTQB Foundation or Performance Testing Certification.
- Dynatrace Associate Certification.
- AppDynamics Certifications.
- Banking or Performance Engineering Certifications.
