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Date live:
Jun. 03, 2025
Business Area:
Wholesale Lending
Area of Expertise:
Technology
Reference Code:
JR-0000050361
Contract:
Permanent
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Explore locationJoin us as a “Senior Performance Tester " at Barclays, where you'll spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence. You'll harness cutting-edge technology to revolutionise our digital offerings, ensuring unapparelled customer experiences.
You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as experience with, skills to meet business requirement as well as job-specific skillsets.
To be successful as a “Senior Performance Tester ", you should have experience with:
Basic/ Essential Qualifications:
Extensive industry experience as a hands-on technical lead for critical and technically complex projects that address improvements in system performance, capacity, reliability and scalability.
Very good performing root cause analysis of performance issues in a performance & production environment and suggesting immediate corrective actions and long term strategic recommendations.
Must have hands-on experience in scripting using HP Loadrunner ( inclusive of all the applicable protocols) and Jmeter to mimic business workflows . Excellent troubleshooting skills in modularizing the generated virtual users script.
Prior experience with Tuning/optimization of .NET/J2EE Applications, Oracle databases, Mongo Databases etc.
Have proven experience in implementing CI-CD process for performance testing life-cycle via integration of vsuer scripts with Jenkins.
Experience with Agile Software development methodologies and able to adapt him/her-self with the fast pace environment. Prior experience/knowledge working with Banking Domain/Application
Must have experience in working with cloud infrastructure technologies – Openshift/AWS/Kubernetes/Docker etc.
Hands-On experience of Unix, Linux, AIX, VMware, Web logic, Tomcat, SQL Server, Oracle, etc.
Write Shell scripts (or use any industry standard/open source tools) for Performance testing Unix-based Applications. Utilize performance engineering methodologies and practices to support bank projects to meet specifications on non-functional requirements.
Prior experience with monitoring tools like CA Wily Introscope, HP Diagnostics, AppDynamics, New Relic, Dynatrace. Work exp with Appdynamics and Wily will be added advantage.
Working directly with application development teams to analyse software architecture, platform architecture, system performance and recommend improvements.
Analyse operational data to identify performance and stability issues.
Sizing infrastructure needs and optimizing it for higher performance.
Analyse business requirements and data processing problems to oversee development of test plan and strategy for various applications.
Provide guidance to engineering teams on complex technology performance challenges and/or issues.
Define Performance Engineering requirements and Architecture for new applications.
Develop/provide standard reports on Performance and Resilience testing results for Senior Management.
Work directly with Engineering leads to ensure that the team’s Performance Engineering role evolves with the Application Development and Data Engineering organizations with respect to engineering methodologies being used (ex Agile).
Work directly with Run-the-Bank (RTB) operational leadership to ensure roles/responsibilities and process that cross the two organisations are well defined and executing as desired with successful outcomes.
Reliability Engineering Function – the Performance Engineering team is continually looking for ways to improve stability/reliance, performance and availability of Cards systems. This role will continually evaluate and recommend enhancements to production environments to constantly improve operations.
Security expertise to support implementation of security technologies and controls.
Desirable skillsets/ good to have:
BTech in computer science or relevant work experience. Senior level relevant work experience in performance test engineering field.
Experience with Performance testing of .NET/J2EE Applications.
Experience of solid LoadRunner scripting experience
Experience of experience in building scripts and executing tests in JMeter.
Experience of prior experience with Tuning/optimization of .NET/J2EE Applications
Exposure to Programming in C, C++, Java or Python is an added advantage.
Build, Leverage and Maintain effective alliance with Business/Development team.
Experience of experience with Agile Software development methodologies and able to adapt him/her-self with the fast pace environment.
This role will be based out of Pune.
Purpose of the role
To design, develop, and execute testing strategies to validate functionality, performance, and user experience, while collaborating with cross-functional teams to identify and resolve defects, and continuously improve testing processes and methodologies, to ensure software quality and reliability.
Accountabilities
Assistant Vice President Expectations
All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.