Performance Test Engineer at FNZ Group

Role Description

Performance Test Engineer will join a dynamic development team working on cutting edge emerging technologies and integrating them into traditional finance systems. They will create and maintain performance test plans, develop testing infrastructure, and work with developer and other project team members to produce world class software. The successful candidate will have enthusiasm for troubleshooting, analysing and resolving complex problems, and must demonstrate strong problem solving and communications skills.

Specific Role Responsibilities

Performance Testing

• Evaluate application architectures and design performance test plans for traditional and blockchain based solutions
• Develop performance test solutions and procedures, utilising appropriate performance testing tools and frameworks
• Plan and prioritise work for all incoming testing. Provide detailed and accurate test estimates. Create and maintain testing data and records.
• Establish performance test objectives, acceptance criteria, workload profiles and use case scenarios
• Measure and analyse performance data (workload, system and application)
• Solve complex problems and provide clear and concise reports with recommendations
• Work closely with development teams, architects and engineers to test their products under load and make recommendations to improve performance, reliability and stability

Collaboration / Communication

• Promote the testing team both internally and externally. Ensure that creative solutions, robust testing infrastructure, tough problems solved are called out appropriately to the FNZ development community, and where they lead to visible outcomes, to the broader FNZ teams and clients; and
• Collaborate with other developers and testers to share knowledge, best practices, useful technology, and opportunities for cross-project system design / solutions.
• Mentor new starters to ensure they understand both platform and SDLC.
• Provide solution centre-wide training, as required, on topics of personal expertise.

Technology

• Keep abreast of latest and/or relevant technologies, tools and methods. Identify adoption of technology, tools and methods best suited to FNZ;
• Proactively resolve technical (environmental, coding and testing) issues that impede development progress. Assist in the resolution of technical issues when requested by other developers; and
• Create novel solutions to problems by incorporating cutting edge technology or generic concepts.

Experience Required

Primary requirements

• MSc. in Computer Science, Engineering, and/or equivalent experience;
• Highly experienced in Performance Test approaches (i.e., BDD testing) and tools (including the use of JMeter or Load Runner);
• Experienced Automated Tester with experience using relevant testing tools (especially Cucumber) and conducting automated testing;
• Experience working with blockchain or distributed ledger technologies, and developing performance testing infrastructure for blockchain platforms;
• Experience with the Java programming language;
• Experience with public cloud (Google Cloud or AWS);
• Experience working with Docker, Kubernetes and AWS infrastructure;
• Demonstrated ability in leading testing teams and reporting testing results;
• Demonstrated ability in developing comprehensive performance and functional test approaches for new systems;
• Strong self-driven collaborator with ability to work in diverse teams;
• Proven data analysis and problem solving skills;
• Participated in end-end deliveries of software products.

Secondary Requirements

• Experience with Hyperledger Fabric and/or Hyperledger Caliper blockchain benchmarking framework;
• Experience testing the following types of applications: Windows Software, Database applications, websites, mobile applications;
• Experience with UI testing, using tools such as Selenium
• Experience working in an agile environment;
• Experience with Azure DevOps & Agile development tools (including Jira);
• Experience with JavaScript and JSON programming languages;
• Experience with DevOps concepts, CD/CI pipelines, and setting up scalable testing infrastructure;
• Expert knowledge of Linux (Unix) commands and scripting languages;
• Familiarity with financial products and markets; and
• Experience developing AWS test environments and working with AWS Lambda Functions.