Performance Test Engineer

DXC Luxoft; Brisbane; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Luxoft is seeking an experienced Performance Testing Engineer for a Core Banking Migration program in Australia. The role focuses on ensuring performance, scalability, reliability, and stability of critical banking applications, batch processes, and data warehouse workloads through end-to-end performance engineering and testing activities.

The role includes designing test strategies, workload models, and data preparation, as well as integrating performance testing into Azure DevOps pipelines and

Qualifications

• 9+ years of hands-on experience in Performance Testing and Performance Engineering across large-scale enterprise applications.
• Proven ability to design, develop, and execute performance test scripts.
• Experience integrating performance testing into CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience testing batch processing and data warehouses.
• Strong test data creation, management and preparation.
• Strong workload modeling and performance test strategy capabilities.
• Proficient in analyzing results and recommending optimizations.
• Excellent stakeholder communication across technical and business teams.
• Experience in Agile, DevOps, and Continuous Delivery environments.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain performance test strategies and execution schedules.
• Design workload models and performance test scenarios aligned to business requirements.
• Create and manage performance test data for testing cycles.
• Develop and maintain performance test scripts using JMeter.
• Conduct performance, load, stress, and endurance testing.
• Analyze results, identify bottlenecks, and provide optimization recommendations.
• Prepare and present Test Summary Reports and assessments.
• Integrate performance testing within Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines.
• Collaborate with development, infrastructure, and project teams to resolve issues.
• Support testing of batch processing and data warehouse solutions.
• Participate in defect triage, root cause analysis, and tuning activities.

Skills

9+ years experience in Performance &

Tools

Apache JMeter

Azure DevOps

Job description

Project description

Core Banking Migration program for a leading Australian banking customer. The role involves ensuring the performance, scalability, reliability, and stability of critical banking applications, batch processes, and data warehouse workloads through end-to-end performance engineering and testing activities.

Responsibilities

• - Develop and maintain performance test strategies, plans, and execution schedules.- Design performance test scenarios and workload models aligned to business requirements.- Create and manage performance test data for various testing cycles.- Develop, execute, and maintain performance test scripts using JMeter.- Conduct performance, load, stress, and endurance testing.- Analyse test results, identify bottlenecks, and provide optimization recommendations.- Prepare and present Test Summary Reports (TSRs) and performance assessment findings.- Integrate performance testing within Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines.- Collaborate with development, infrastructure, and project teams to resolve performance issues.- Support testing of batch processing and data warehouse solutions.- Participate in defect triage, root cause analysis, and performance tuning activities.

SKILLS

Must have

• - 9+ years of hands-on experience in Performance Testing and Performance Engineering across large-scale enterprise applications.- Strong expertise in designing, developing, and executing performance test scripts using Apache JMeter.- Proven experience integrating performance testing into Azure DevOps pipelines and CI/CD delivery processes.- Experience performing performance testing for batch processing systems and Data Warehouse platforms.- Strong capability in test data creation, management, and preparation for performance test execution.- Expertise in developing performance test strategies, plans, and execution approaches.- Experience designing workload models and realistic performance test scenarios based on business volumes.- Proficiency in performance test script development, execution, and execution management.- Strong ability to analyse performance test results, identify bottlenecks, and provide optimisation recommendations.- Experience preparing comprehensive Test Summary Reports (TSRs) and communicating test outcomes to stakeholders.- Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis skills across application and infrastructure layers.- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills with the ability to engage technical and business teams.- Experience working within Agile, DevOps, and Continuous Delivery environments.

Nice to have

• Knowledge of Service Virtualisation tools, preferably Tricentis Tosca OSV.
• Prior experience in the Banking and Payments domain.
• Experience in large-scale Core Banking transformation or migration programs.
• Exposure to cloud-based performance engineering practices.
• Experience leading performance testing engagements across multiple application teams.