Consultant Specialist

Job description

Job description

Some careers have more impact than others.

If you’re looking for a career where you can make a real impression, join HSBC and discover how valued you’ll be.

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Consultant Specialist . 

Business: Wealth & Personal Banking IT

Principal responsibilities

·  In this role, you will lead performance Engineering and testing efforts across Security As A Platform (SAAP) and engineering disciplines and provide ongoing input into the overall process improvement of the Performance Engineering discipline within SAAP.
·  Opportunity to build Performance assurance procedures with the latest feasible tools and techniques, establish Performance test automation process to improve testing productivity. 
·  You are expected to support multiple Cloud (AWS) migration and Production initiatives using a wide range of tools and utilities, you identify performance related issues in the applications and systems and present your findings to other teams in the organization to ensure system reliability. 
·  Represent testing at Scrum meetings and all other key project meetings and provide a single point of accountability and escalation for testing within the scrum teams
·  Advise on needed infrastructure and Performance Engineering and testing guidelines & be responsible for performance risk assessment of various platform features
·  Work across all global activities and support the Performance Engineering team in ensuring any testing-related dependencies/ touchpoints are in place.
·  You will be a Performance Engineering SME, as a result, you will have exposure to a broader set of problems, understanding customer experience, migrations, new cloud initiatives, improving platform performance, Optimize environments.
·  Provide recommendations to the Product Owner and/or other project stakeholders on the product readiness to go live.
·  Strong sense of ownership and accountability for quality deliverables and Performance engineering-related activities within the agile development lifecycle.
·  Design and implement solutions to evaluate and improve performance and scalability of Web Apps / Platforms and platform level applications
·  Represent Performance Engineering across the project and be accountable for defining, shaping and agreeing on the testing schedules in the context of the whole project schedules
·  Accountable for the successful launch of scalable Platform Products, Engineering Initiatives, alignment for Cloud deployment
·  Provide technical expertise in performance requirements analysis, design, effort estimation, testing and delivery of scalable solutions
·  Participate in design and architectural review of the Engineering eco-system to voice performance and scalability concerns
·  Develop tools and processes to performance test software applications using various industry-standard tools to automate simulation of expected user workloads to identify performance bottlenecks with the usage of monitoring tools
·  Execute and Analyse test results and establish reliable statistical models for response time, throughput, network utilization and other application performance metrics
·  Participate and support in design and evaluation of new tools, frameworks, techniques to enhance system performance, scalability and stability techniques
·  Product focused mindset and detailed root cause analysis of test failures, and performance and scalability issues.
·  Experience in collaborating with Development, SRE, Prod support teams in evaluating performance issues and solutions for the infrastructure of the entire HSBC Digital stack

Requirements

·  Performance Engineering, testing and tuning cloud hosted digital platforms (e.g. AWS)
·  Working knowledge (preferably with an AWS Solutions Architect certification) on Cloud Platforms like AWS and AWS Key Services and DevOps tools like CloudFormation, Teraform
·  Performance engineering and testing of web Apps (Linux) Performance testing and tuning web-based applications
·  Performance engineering toolsets such as JMeter, Microfocus Performance Center, BrowserStack, Taurus, Lighthouse,
·  Monitoring/logging tools (such as AppDynamics, New Relic, Splunk, DataDog)
·  Windows / UNIX / Linux / Web / Database / Network performance monitors to diagnose performance issues along with JVM tuning and Heap analysing skills
·  Docker, Kubernetes and Cloud-native development and container orchestration frameworks, Kubernetes clusters, pods & nodes, vertical/horizontal pod autoscaling concepts, High availability
·  Performance Testing and Engineering activity planning, estimating, designing, executing and analysing output from performance tests
·  Working in an agile environment, "DevOps" team or a similar multi-skilled team in a technically demanding function
·  Jenkins and CI-CD Pipelines including Pipeline scripting
·  Chaos engineering using tools like Chaos toolkit, AWS Fault Injection Simulator, Gremlin etc.
·  Programming and scripting language skills in Java, Shell, Scala, Groovy, Python and knowledge of security mechanisms such as OAuth etc.
·  Tools like GitHub, Jira & Confluence
·  Assisting with Resiliency Production support teams and Performance Incident Root Cause Analysis
·  Ability to prioritize work effectively and deliver within agreed service levels in a diverse and ever-changing environment
·  Strong stakeholder management and excellent English communication skills.
·  Extensive knowledge of risk management and mitigation
·  Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

HSBCAL/GZ*

About HSBC Technology China

We develop, implement and support software and IT services and processes that allow HSBC to remain at the forefront of high-quality banking systems.

You’ll achieve more when you join HSBC.

HSBC is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a culture where all employees are valued, respected and opinions count. We take pride in providing a workplace that fosters continuous professional development, flexible working and, opportunities to grow within an inclusive and diverse environment. We encourage applications from all suitably qualified persons irrespective of, but not limited to, their gender or genetic information, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, social status, medical care leave requirements, political affiliation, people with disabilities, color, national origin, veteran status, etc., We consider all applications based on merit and suitability to the role.”

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Candidate with less relevant experience or skills may be offered a lower Global Career Band than stated above.

Due to the urgent hiring need, candidates with immediate right to work locally and no relocation need will be prioritised.

***Issued By HSBC Software Development (GuangDong) Limited***