Senior Team Member, Test Automation & Performance Test Lead

RHB Banking Group; Selangor; On-site; MYR 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading banking institution is seeking a Performance Tester in Selangor, Malaysia. The successful candidate will design, execute, and analyze performance tests across various applications while collaborating with cross-functional teams. Strong skills in performance testing tools like LoadRunner and JMeter, along with analytical abilities to identify system constraints, are essential for this role. This position offers the opportunity to contribute to the continuous improvement of testing processes.

Qualifications

• Experience in performance testing across multiple layers: web, API, database, backend.
• Strong analytical skills to identify bottlenecks and performance issues.
• Ability to work with cross-functional teams to understand system requirements.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with teams to understand requirements and performance expectations.
• Design and develop performance test scripts and scenarios.
• Execute various types of performance tests and analyze results.
• Provide actionable performance insights and recommendations.
• Maintain and update performance test artifacts for reusability.

Skills

Performance testing

LoadRunner

JMeter

Analysis skills

Collaboration

Tools

LoadRunner

JMeter

Job description

Assessment & Planning

• Collaborate with project team, business analysts, and application team to understand system requirements, workload models, SLAs, and performance expectations.
• Conduct feasibility studies for performance testing requirements and prepare comprehensive assessment reports with cost/benefit justifications.
• Prepare effort estimations, resource plans, and test schedules for performance testing phases.
• Identify critical business transactions, performance risks, and peak workload scenarios for inclusion in test planning.
• Develop and maintain the Performance Test Plan, conduct walkthroughs with stakeholders and obtain formal sign-off.

Script Design & Development

• Design, develop, and maintain performance test scripts and scenarios using industry-standard tools (e.g. LoadRunner, JMeter, etc.) covering web, API, database, and backend layers.
• Build and maintain workload models and test data strategies that simulate real-world user behavior.
• Develop reusable and modular performance testing scripts to minimize rework and maximize efficiency.
• Customize and extend performance testing tools where required (e.g., scripting protocols, reporting enhancements).

Execution & Analysis

• Plan, coordinate, and execute load, stress, endurance, scalability, and failover tests in collaboration with project and infrastructure teams.
• Monitor system performance during test execution, capturing metrics across application, database, server, and network layers.
• Analyze test results to identify bottlenecks, system constraints, and performance issues, and work closely with developers/DBAs/infrastructure teams to drive resolution.
• Provide clear, actionable reports with performance insights, trends, and optimization recommendations to stakeholders.
• Track and manage defects and issues identified during performance tests until closure.

Test Closure

• Maintain and update performance test artefacts, scripts, scenarios, and results in a central repository for reusability across projects.
• Capture lessons learned, tuning recommendations, and best practices to continuously improve performance testing capability.
• Provide test closure reports with comparative performance baselines for future reference.

Leadership & Continuous Improvement

• Stay current with emerging tools, technologies, and methodologies in performance testing and recommend adoption where beneficial.
• Mentor, coach, and upskill team members on performance testing frameworks, scripting, and analysis to strengthen internal capability.
• Drive initiatives to reduce test cycle time, increase automation, and improve test efficiency across performance testing engagements.