Program Performance Test Lead – Digital Banking

Q1 Technologies, Inc.; Ontario; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 120,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading technology firm in Ontario is seeking a Mid-Senior Level Program Performance Test Lead for Digital Banking. You will define the performance testing strategy and ensure governance across multiple workstreams. Strong experience with tools like JMeter and Selenium is required. This position involves significant stakeholder management and executive reporting responsibilities. Competitive compensation is offered.

Qualifications

• Experience in defining performance testing strategies for digital banking.
• Ability to establish SLAs / KPIs aligned with business needs.
• Experience overseeing performance testing activities.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the performance testing strategy for the Digital Banking program.
• Coordinate performance test planning across multiple agile workstreams.
• Act as a single point of accountability for all performance testing.

Skills

Performance testing strategy

Governance processes

Performance monitoring

Load and stress testing

Root cause analysis

Tools

JMeter

Selenium

Appium

Job description

Overview

Program Performance Test Lead – Digital Banking

Responsibilities

• Define and own the performance testing strategy and framework for the entire Digital Banking program (Web / Mobile, Middleware, Core Banking).
• Establish program-wide SLAs / KPIs (e.g., response time, throughput, concurrency, TPS, latency, error rates) aligned with business & regulatory commitments.
• Set up governance processes for workload modeling, test data management, environment readiness, and defect triage.
• Ensure end-to-end coverage across channels (DEP web / mobile) → MuleSoft APIs → T24 transactions.
• Build and maintain performance risk register to track program-level risks and mitigation actions.

Program Orchestration

• Coordinate performance test planning and execution across multiple agile workstreams and vendor teams.
• Drive integration of performance testing into release planning, ensuring coverage of major features, upgrades, and infrastructure changes.
• Align with Enterprise Architecture, Infrastructure, and Application teams on scalability planning, capacity needs, and performance tuning.
• Establish and oversee performance monitoring dashboards and observability standards for production-like validation.

Leadership & Stakeholder Management

• Act as the single point of accountability for all performance testing activities across the Digital Banking program.
• Provide executive-level reporting (dashboards, heatmaps, trend analysis) on system readiness and bottlenecks.
• Manage dependencies between frontend (DEP), middleware (MuleSoft), and backend (T24) teams to ensure coordinated performance improvements.
• Mentor and guide Performance Test Leads / Engineers across streams; define best practices, frameworks, and reusable accelerators.
• Facilitate Executive level reviews for critical performance test results and capacity planning outcomes.

Execution Oversight

• Oversee design and execution of load, stress, endurance, and failover tests using JMeter, Selenium, Appium.
• Ensure test data provisioning at program scale for realistic, high-volume multi-channel workloads.
• Direct root cause analysis of systemic bottlenecks and drive resolution across multiple teams (e.g., MuleSoft VM tuning, T24 DB performance, mobile app rendering issues).
• Ensure non-functional regression testing is embedded into every release

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Contract

Job function

• Consulting

Industries

• IT Services and IT Consulting