Performance Tester/Consultant Specialist

Job description

Job description

Some careers shine brighter than others.

If you’re looking for a career that will help you stand out, join HSBC and fulfil your potential. Whether you want a career that could take you to the top, or simply take you in an exciting new direction, HSBC offers opportunities, support and rewards that will take you further.
HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organisations in the world, with operations in 64 countries and territories. We aim to be where the growth is, enabling businesses to thrive and economies to prosper, and, ultimately, helping people to fulfil their hopes and realise their ambitions.

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

In this role, you will:

·  A senior full stack performance testing engineer with experience and knowledge around various Performance, Stress testing tools, SQL, Shell scripting, Control-M job, API Development, Design Patterns, SDLC, IAC tools, testing and site reliability engineering.
·  Define and implement best practices for software performance testing, framework, and patterns, including testing methodologies. 
·  Generalist with the breadth and depth of experience in CICD best practices and has core experience in testing (ie. Performance testing/TDD/BDD/Automated testing/Contract testing/API testing)
·  Contributes to architectural discussions by asking the right questions to ensure a solution matches the business needs
·  Identify opportunities for system optimization, performance tuning, and scalability enhancements. Implement solutions to improve system efficiency and reliability.
·  Build Performance assurance procedures with the latest feasible tools and techniques, establish Performance test automation process to improve testing productivity.
·  Responsible for end-to-end performance testing and engineering life cycle - technical scoping, performance scripting, testing, and tuning.
·  Analyse the performance assessment results and provide recommendations to improve performance or save infrastructure costs.
·  Represent at Scrum meetings and all other key project meetings and provide a single point of accountability and escalation for Performance testing within the scrum teams.
·  Advise on needed infrastructure and Performance Engineering and testing guidelines & be responsible for performance risk assessment of various application features.
·  Work with cross-functional team, opportunity to work with software product, development, and support teams, capable of handling tasks to accelerate the testing delivery and to improve the quality for Applications at HSBC. Able to provide support in product/application design from performance point of view.
·  Apply thinking to many problems across multiple technical domains and suggest way to solve the problems
·  Excellent verbal and written communication skills to articulate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Able to communicate plans, status, and results as per target audience.

Requirements

To be successful in this role, you should meet the following requirements:

·  Be responsible to deliver performance testing and engineering projects 
·  Familiar with following performance testing tools. 
·  Micro Focus LoadRunner Enterprise (VuGen, Analysis, LRE OneLG) 
·  Protocols: HTTP/HTMP, CITRIX. 
·  JMETER, Postman, Insomnia
·  Familiar with following observability tools.
·  AppDynamics, New Relic, Splunk, Geneos., Datadog, Grafana
·  Knowledge of following will be an added advantage.
·  GitHub, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Jira & Confluence.
·  Programming and scripting language skills in Java, Shell, Scala, Groovy, Python.
·  WebLogic server administration.
·  Familiar with BMC Control M tool. CICD tools e.g. Ansible, G3, AWS RO
·  UNIX/Linux/Web monitors & performance analysis tools to diagnose and resolve performance issues.
·  Experience of working in an Agile environment, "DevOps" team or a similar multi skilled team in a technically demanding function.
·  Experience of working on performance testing and tuning of micro-services/APIs, Desktop applications, Webapps, Cloud Services, ETL Apps, database queries.
·  Experience of writing/modifying performance testing scripts, Implementation & usage of automated tools for result analysis 
·  Experience of working on performance testing and tuning of Data warehouse applications doing batch processing on various stages of ETL and information delivery components.

You’ll achieve more when you join HSBC.
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Issued by – HSBC Software Development India