Software Engineer - QA Performance Testing (m/f/d)

Halian | Managed Services, Recruitment and Contract Staffing Agency; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 300,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

Software Engineer - QA Performance Testing in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates is seeking an experienced performance engineer to design, implement, and execute end-to-end performance testing strategies for banking platforms, mobile/web apps, and APIs. The role focuses on NFRs, load profiles, and scalable architectures.

You will work with DevOps, SRE, and architecture teams to optimize performance, run multi-stage tests (load, stress, endurance), and deliver detailed reports and executive

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Performance Engineering and Non-Functional Testing.
• Proven ability to design and execute NFRs including response time, throughput and scalability.
• Experience testing high-volume banking, payments, onboarding and corporate banking platforms.
• Strong knowledge of cloud-native architectures on Azure and AWS.
• Hands-on with JMeter, LoadRunner, NeoLoad, Gatling, or similar tools.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and execute performance testing strategies for digital banking applications, mobile banking, internet banking, APIs, and microservices.
• Define and validate 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 performance bottlenecks across UI, API Gateway, microservices, middleware, databases, and infrastructure.
• Monitor applications using observability and APM tools to identify root causes of degradation.
• Collaborate with development, architecture, DevOps, SRE, infrastructure, and database teams to optimize platform performance.
• Validate performance of mobile banking, online banking journeys, payments, and corporate services under peak load.
• Produce detailed performance reports, recommendations, and executive summaries for release approvals.
• Support capacity planning, volumetric modelling, and performance benchmarking activities.

Skills

Performance Testing

Load/Stress/Endurance

REST APIs & Microservices

JMeter/LoadRunner/NeoLoad

SQL & DB Performance

Cloud/Nuage AZURE/AWS

Kubernetes/Docker/OpenShift

Observability/Dynatrace

Tools

JMeter

LoadRunner

NeoLoad

Gatling

Dynatrace

Azure Monitor

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

Key Responsibilities

Main duties and day-to-day tasks expected from the resource

• 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.

Required Skills

Primary technical and functional skills

• Strong expertise in Performance Testing, Load Testing, Stress Testing, Endurance Testing, and Capacity Planning.


• Hands-on experience with JMeter, LoadRunner, NeoLoad, Gatling, or similar performance engineering tools.


• Strong experience testing REST APIs, Microservices, Mobile Applications, and Web Applications.


• Experience designing test workloads based on TPS, concurrency, user journeys, and volumetric requirements.


• Strong understanding of API performance, database performance, JVM tuning, connection pooling, caching, and distributed systems.


• Knowledge of API Gateways such as Kong Azure APIM.


• Experience with monitoring and observability tools including Dynatrace or Azure Monitor.


• Strong SQL and database performance analysis skills.

Required Experience / Knowledge Areas

Specific domain or industry knowledge required

• 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 deployed on Azure and AWS.


• Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, OpenShift, AKS, EKS, and 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.

Good-to-Have Skills

Additional skills that are an advantage but not mandatory

• Experience with SRE practices and platform observability.


• Knowledge of Kafka, Event Hub, MQ, and event-driven architectures.


• Experience with mobile application performance testing and device performance profiling.


• Exposure to security testing, penetration testing, and API security validation.


• Experience with CI/CD integration using GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, and SonarQube.


• Understanding of FinOps, cloud cost optimization, and infrastructure sizing.

Key Deliverables

Expected outputs and outcomes from the resource

• Performance Test Strategy and Non-Functional Test Plan.


• Load, Stress, Spike, Soak, and Capacity Test Execution Reports.


• Application and API Performance Benchmark Reports.


• NFR Compliance Assessment and Go-Live Recommendations.


• Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for identified performance bottlenecks.


• Capacity Planning and Scalability Assessment Reports.


• Production Readiness Sign-off for performance and resilience requirements.


• Executive dashboards and performance KPI reporting.

Certifications Required

• BlazeMeter/JMeter Certification (Preferred)


• Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900) Preferred


• AWS Cloud Practitioner Preferred


• Certified Agile Tester (Preferred)

Software Engineer - QA Performance Testing in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates