Performance Tester - Lead

Job Description

Role Overview
We are looking for a senior Performance Testing / Performance Engineering professional to build and drive performance testing capabilities. The role involves working closely with business and technology stakeholders to identify business-critical performance requirements, define non-functional requirements (NFRs), select appropriate tools, and establish end-to-end performance engineering practices for BFSI applications.
This is a high-ownership role requiring both technical depth and consultative mindset. 

Key Responsibilities 
•    Work with business stakeholders, architects, and product owners to identify business?critical user journeys and performance expectations. 
•    Define and document Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs) including response time, throughput, scalability, availability, and resilience. 
•    Design the performance testing strategy, including scope, approach, tools, environments, and success criteria. 
•    Evaluate, recommend, and implement performance testing tools based on application architecture and business needs (e.g., JMeter, LoadRunner, NeoLoad). 
•    Build reusable performance test frameworks, scripts, and test assets. 
•    Execute various types of performance tests: 
o    Load, Stress, Endurance, Spike, Scalability, and Volume testing. 
•    Perform end-to-end performance analysis across application, middleware, database, and infrastructure layers. 
•    Identify system bottlenecks and collaborate with development, DB, infra, and architecture teams to recommend optimizations. 
•    Define performance baselines, SLAs, and release performance gates. 
•    Establish performance reporting, dashboards, and governance processes. 
•    Provide performance sign-off recommendations for releases. 

Mandatory Skills 
•    Strong hands-on experience with performance testing tools: 
o    JMeter 
o    LoadRunner 
o    NeoLoad 
•    Proven ability to design performance testing frameworks. 
•    Excellent understanding of performance engineering concepts and best practices. 
•    Strong analytical skills for result interpretation and bottleneck identification. 

Domain Experience 
•    Mandatory experience in BFSI domain (Banking, Financial Services, Payments, Trading, Insurance, etc.). 
•    Strong understanding of BFSI system characteristics such as: 
o    High transaction volumes 
o    Peak load scenarios (market open, batch cycles, settlements, regulatory events) 
o    Regulatory compliance and reliability requirements 

Technical Skills (Good to Have) 
•    Strong SQL / PL-SQL for database performance validation. 
•    Linux/Unix system monitoring and troubleshooting. 
•    Experience with APM & monitoring tools (Dynatrace, AppDynamics, New Relic, Grafana etc.). 
•    Experience with Log Analysis using tools like Splunk, DataDog 
•    Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and integrating performance tests into DevOps workflows. 
•    Exposure to performance testing in cloud or hybrid environments (AWS/Azure). 
•    Familiarity with capacity planning and workload modeling. 

Soft Skills & Expectations 
•    Strong communication and stakeholder management skills. 
•    Ability to translate business expectations into measurable performance requirements. 
•    Experience working with global teams and UK shift timings. 
•    Proactive mindset with ownership-driven delivery. 

Mandatory Competencies