Performance Tester - Lead

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Job Description

Role Overview

We are looking for a senior Performance Testing / Performance Engineering professional to build and drive performance testing capabilities. The role involves working closely with business and technology stakeholders to identify business-critical performance requirements, define non-functional requirements (NFRs), select appropriate tools, and establish end-to-end performance engineering practices for BFSI applications.

This is a high-ownership role requiring both technical depth and consultative mindset.

Key Responsibilities

• Work with business stakeholders, architects, and product owners to identify business?critical user journeys and performance expectations.
• Define and document Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs) including response time, throughput, scalability, availability, and resilience.
• Design the performance testing strategy, including scope, approach, tools, environments, and success criteria.
• Evaluate, recommend, and implement performance testing tools based on application architecture and business needs (e.g., JMeter, LoadRunner, NeoLoad).
• Build reusable performance test frameworks, scripts, and test assets.
• Execute various types of performance tests:
• Load, Stress, Endurance, Spike, Scalability, and Volume testing.
• Perform end-to-end performance analysis across application, middleware, database, and infrastructure layers.
• Identify system bottlenecks and collaborate with development, DB, infra, and architecture teams to recommend optimizations.
• Define performance baselines, SLAs, and release performance gates.
• Establish performance reporting, dashboards, and governance processes.
• Provide performance sign-off recommendations for releases.
  
  

Mandatory Skills

• Strong hands-on experience with performance testing tools:
• JMeter
• LoadRunner
• NeoLoad
• Proven ability to design performance testing frameworks.
• Excellent understanding of performance engineering concepts and best practices.
• Strong analytical skills for result interpretation and bottleneck identification.
  
  

Domain Experience

• Mandatory experience in BFSI domain (Banking, Financial Services, Payments, Trading, Insurance, etc.).
• Strong understanding of BFSI system characteristics such as:
• High transaction volumes
• Peak load scenarios (market open, batch cycles, settlements, regulatory events)
• Regulatory compliance and reliability requirements
  
  

Technical Skills (Good To Have)

• Strong SQL / PL-SQL for database performance validation.
• Linux/Unix system monitoring and troubleshooting.
• Experience with APM & monitoring tools (Dynatrace, AppDynamics, New Relic, Grafana etc.).
• Experience with Log Analysis using tools like Splunk, DataDog
• Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and integrating performance tests into DevOps workflows.
• Exposure to performance testing in cloud or hybrid environments (AWS/Azure).
• Familiarity with capacity planning and workload modeling.
  
  

Soft Skills & Expectations

• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to translate business expectations into measurable performance requirements.
• Experience working with global teams and UK shift timings.
• Proactive mindset with ownership-driven delivery.
  
  

Mandatory Competencies

Performance Tools - Performance Tools - Jmeter

QA/QE - QA Automation - Performance testing (Jmeter, Loadrunner, NeoLoad etc)

Beh - Communication

QA/QE - QA Automation - Basic Build, Deployment and CI/CD

FS Domain - Financial Services - Financial Services

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