Senior Performance Test Engineer

Cognizant; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Senior Performance Test Engineer to join the QEA Team in Toronto. In this hybrid role, you will lead performance testing efforts for banking clients, utilizing JMeter and APM tools to ensure optimal application performance. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in performance testing, strong technical skills, and the ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams.

Qualifications

• 8-14 years of experience in Performance Testing.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience with JMeter.
• Experience with APM tools like Dynatrace & AppDynamics.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain performance test scripts using JMeter.
• Lead performance testing for large-scale banking projects.
• Analyze logs and provide performance recommendations.

Skills

Performance Testing

JMeter

APM Tools

Java

Python

SQL

DevOps

Cloud Deployments

Containerization

Communication

Job description

We are seeking a skilled Senior Performance Test Engineer with expertise in JMeter to join our QEA Team. You will be responsible for performance test planning, execution and reporting of all performance activities in your area of responsibility within the banking domain.

About Cognizant’s QEA Practice:

We are the largest Quality Assurance Practice Globally servicing 800+ Clients including 50+ clients in the Fortune 100. We bring industry-leading vision and expertise to help with the Quality Engineering transformation journey for our reputed clients. We provide Next Gen QA offerings like System Modernization assurance, Business Process Assurance, Quality Engineering, Cloud Platform Assurance, Customer Experience Assurance and Robotic Test Automation. We have been ranked #1 for Market Impact by Everest Group four times in a row and ranked #1 for completeness of vision, test advisory and Digital Business Assurance in Gartner Magic Quadrant!

In this role, you will:

• Design, develop, and maintain performance test scripts using JMeter.
• Manage and lead performance testing activities across multiple large-scale enterprise-wide programs/projects for our banking client.
• Analyze Splunk logs, Dynatrace distributed traces, method hotspots and response-time hotspots to identify slow components and provide recommendations.
• Continuously improve performance test processes and automation efficiency.
• Understand Non-Functional Requirements and the underlying application Architecture and technology stack, to ensure overall Performance coverage across various systems.
• Provide detailed performance test reports and recommendations for improvement to project stakeholders.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand system requirements and identify performance testing needs.

What you’ll need to succeed (required skills):

• Overall 8-14 years of professional experience as Performance Testing Engineer with good hands-on experience in implementing performance & high availability strategies to optimize the efficiency of applications.
• Must have 5+ years of strong hands-on skills with test script development using JMeter.
• Strong experience in executing performance tests (load/stress/endurance) using JMeter.
• Must have hands-on experience in APM tools like Dynatrace & AppDynamics to conduct root cause analysis for performance and scalability bottlenecks.
• Experience in performance testing for Cloud deployments, Docker/Kubernetes containerized applications and microservices.
• Strong knowledge on Java/Python, SQL query creation and manipulation skills.
• Good experience in SRE DevOps to enhance the stability and scalability of systems.
• Experience in Auto-Scaling, Chaos and failover testing to measure and test for Pod/Node failures, Network exhaustion, CPU/memory saturation, Container startup failures and Dependency failures etc.
• Strong ability to track and contribute to technical discussions around application integration and high-availability, resilience and observability.
• Individual Contributor with good communication skills.

What will help you stand out (preferred skills):

• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and test automation frameworks.
• Experience in Banking Domain.

At Cognizant, we're eager to meet people who believe in our mission and can make an impact in various ways. We strongly encourage you to apply even if you only meet the required skills listed. Consider what transferrable experience and skills make you a unique applicant and help us see how you'd be beneficial to this role.

Cognizant will only consider applicants for this position who are legally authorized to work in Canada without requiring employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future.

Working Arrangements:

We believe hybrid work is the way forward as we strive to provide flexibility wherever possible. Based on this role’s business requirements, this is a hybrid position requiring 3 days a week in a Cognizant or client office in Toronto. Regardless of your working arrangement, we are here to support a healthy work-life balance through our various well-being programs.

Note: The working arrangements for this role are accurate as of the date of posting. This may change based on the project you’re engaged in, as well as business and client requirements. Rest assured; we will always be clear about role expectations.