Senior Performance Testing Engineer - Banking & APIs

Halian | Managed Services, Recruitment Agency & Contract Staffing

Abu Dhabi

On-site

AED 180,000 - 240,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Software Engineer - QA Performance Testing in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates is seeking a seasoned engineer to design and execute performance strategies for digital banking platforms, APIs, and microservices, with focus on stability under peak load.

You will collaborate with DevOps, SRE, and architecture teams, implement load tests using JMeter/LoadRunner, monitor with Dynatrace/Azure Monitor, and deliver actionable performance reports for production readiness.

Qualifications

5+ years of experience in Performance Engineering and Non-Functional Testing.
Experience testing high-volume banking, payment, digital onboarding, lending, corporate banking, or financial services platforms.
Experience validating enterprise APIs and microservices handling hundreds to thousands of TPS.
Strong knowledge of cloud-native architectures on Azure and AWS.
Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, OpenShift, AKS, EKS in containerized environments.
Understanding of banking SLAs, service resilience, high availability, disaster recovery, and scalability requirements.
Experience participating in release readiness, CAB approvals, and production go-live assessments.

Responsibilities

Design, develop, and execute performance testing strategies for digital banking applications, mobile banking, internet banking, APIs, and microservices.
Define and validate Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs) including response time, throughput, scalability, concurrency, availability, and resilience.
Develop performance test scripts and workloads using JMeter, LoadRunner, NeoLoad, or equivalent tools.
Execute load, stress, spike, endurance, failover, and capacity testing across applications and APIs.
Analyze application performance bottlenecks across UI, API Gateway, microservices, middleware, databases, and infrastructure layers.
Monitor applications using observability and APM tools to identify root causes of performance degradation.
Collaborate with development, architecture, DevOps, SRE, infrastructure, and database teams to optimize platform performance.
Validate performance of mobile banking, internet banking, onboarding journeys, payments, and corporate banking services under peak load conditions.
Produce detailed performance reports, recommendations, and executive summaries for release approvals and production readiness reviews.
Support capacity planning, volumetric modelling, and performance benchmarking activities.