Performance Test Engineer at FNB South Africa

Job Description

• To implement and support performance testing systems and strategies to ensure that critical components of a system’s application can perform as expected under varying user loads, helping to evaluate the resource usage, speed, availability, response time, scalability, and reliability of any given application and to assist in making it ready for production

Are you someone who can:

• Work with application stakeholders and define non-functional requirements covering performance, scalability, availability, resiliency and reliability including Service Level Objectives and Agreements.
• Develop strategies to address the Non-functional requirements throughout the Software or Product Development Life Cycle.
• Work with architecture and development teams in creating performant (functioning well or as expected), highly resilient and reliable architecture and design Work with architecture and development teams in implementing resiliency constructs, develop optimal code.
• Work with QA to validate and certify if performance, scalability, availability, resilience and reliability requirements are met.
• Develop tools and utilities to automate manual operational task.
• Responsible for incidents related to non-Functionals, updating standard operating procedure to capture right set of metrics/logs for RCA, Root cause analysis of the incidents, solutions identification and ensure permanent closure of the incidents.
• Analyze production utilization and incidents patterns, identify improvement areas and implement automation to improve productivity, avoid manual tasks and recurring incidents.
• Strong communication and presentation skills with emphasis on executive communication.
• Ability to learn and apply new technologies quickly. Eagerness to learn new things.
• Highly adaptable with the ability to move into a new project while setting up a performance strategy and approach and executing that plan to the satisfaction of all project/application stakeholders.

​​​​​​​You will be an ideal candidate if you:

• Have a degree (NQF7) and relevant certification including ISEB/ISTQB Certification; ISTQB Advanced Analyst.
• Have  5+ years' experience with a focus on performance engineering and being the performance lead on large scale corporate applications.
• Required Industry experience: Banking Industry experience preferred with a focus on Java and Cobol technologies. Alternatively, experience in working on projects for large corporates in the retail, automotive, gaming, insurance, etc., industries.
• Have exposure / experience in the following tools: JMeter, Selenium, Grafana, AppDynamics
• Have experience in the following: Rancher, Jenkins, Bamboo, ConfigDB, Redis (beneficial)

End Date: November 18, 2025