Senior Performance Test Engineer: Core Banking

Luxoft Financial Services UK Limited (Australia); Sydney; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Luxoft Financial Services UK Limited (Australia) in Sydney is seeking a Senior Performance Test Engineer with 9+ years to drive end-to-end performance engineering on core banking platforms. You will design and execute load, stress, and endurance tests, build data-driven scenarios, and integrate tests into Azure DevOps pipelines.

You’ll collaborate across IT and business teams to optimize performance and reliability.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience in Performance Testing and Performance Engineering for large-scale applications.
• Design, develop and execute JMeter scripts for performance testing.
• Integrate performance testing into Azure DevOps pipelines and CI/CD.
• Test performance for batch processing and Data Warehouse platforms.
• Create and manage test data for performance tests.
• Develop strategies and execution approaches for performance testing.
• Design workload models and realistic scenarios based on business volumes.
• Proficient in test script development, execution and results analysis.
• Ability to analyse results, identify bottlenecks and provide optimisation recommendations.
• Prepare comprehensive Test Summary Reports and communicate outcomes to stakeholders.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting and root-cause analysis across app and infra layers.
• Excellent stakeholder management and cross-team communication.
• Experience within Agile, DevOps, and Continuous Delivery environments.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain performance test strategies, plans, and schedules.
• Design performance test scenarios and workload models aligned to business needs.
• Create and manage performance test data for various cycles.
• Develop, execute, and maintain test scripts using JMeter.
• Conduct performance, load, stress, and endurance testing.
• Analyse test results, identify bottlenecks, and provide optimisation recommendations.
• Prepare and present Test Summary Reports (TSRs) and assessment findings.
• Integrate performance testing within Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines.
• Collaborate with development, infra, and project teams to resolve performance issues.
• Support testing of batch processing and data warehouse solutions.
• Participate in defect triage, RCA, and performance tuning activities.
• Familiar tools: JMeter, HP LoadRunner; focus on performance testing.

Skills

Performance testing

Load testing

Stress testing

Azure DevOps CI/CD

Data Warehouse testing

Batch processing testing

Test data creation & management

Root cause analysis

Stakeholder communication

Agile / DevOps familiarity

Tools

Apache JMeter

HP LoadRunner

Tricentis Tosca OSV

Job description

Luxoft Financial Services UK Limited (Australia) in Sydney is seeking a Senior Performance Test Engineer with 9+ years to drive end-to-end performance engineering on core banking platforms. You will design and execute load, stress, and endurance tests, build data-driven scenarios, and integrate tests into Azure DevOps pipelines.

You’ll collaborate across IT and business teams to optimize performance and reliability.