Performance Test Engineer

Luxoft; Brisbane; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Luxoft is seeking an experienced Performance Test 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.

You will develop and execute performance test strategies, design workload models, create test data, and integrate tests into Azure DevOps pipelines.

Qualifications

• 9+ years in performance testing and engineering for large enterprise apps.
• Expert in JMeter for performance test scripts.
• Experience integrating tests into Azure DevOps CI/CD.
• Perf testing for batch processing and data warehouse.
• Strong test data creation and management.
• Develop performance test strategies, plans and execution.
• Design workload models based on business volumes.
• Script development and execution management.
• Analyze results, identify bottlenecks, optimise.
• Prepare TSRs and present findings to stakeholders.
• Analytical, troubleshooting and root-cause analysis.
• Stakeholder management and cross-team communication.
• Experience in Agile, DevOps and CD environments.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain performance test strategies, plans and schedules.
• Design performance test scenarios and workload models.
• Create and manage performance test data for testing cycles.
• Develop, execute and maintain JMeter scripts.
• Conduct performance, load, stress and endurance testing.
• Analyze results, identify bottlenecks and optimize.
• Prepare Test Summary Reports and performance findings.
• Integrate performance testing into 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 and root-cause analysis.

Skills

Performance testing

Performance engineering

JMeter

Azure DevOps

CI/CD

Batch processing

Data warehouse

Test data creation

Workload modeling

Root-cause analysis

Stakeholder management

Agile/DevOps

Big data testing

Tools

Tricentis Tosca OSV

Job 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.

Mandatory Skills Description:

• 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 Skills Description:

• 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.