Performance Test Engineer

Rmb Nigeria Limited; Gauteng; On-site; ZAR 600 000 - 800 000; Full time

Job summary

A financial institution in South Africa is seeking a Performance Test Engineer to implement and support performance testing systems. The ideal candidate will have over 5 years of experience in performance engineering, with a preference for banking industry experience. Responsibilities include defining non-functional requirements and collaborating with development teams to ensure reliability under user loads. Opportunities to innovate and challenge your skills are part of the role.

Benefits

Opportunities to network and collaborate

Challenging work

Opportunities to innovate

Qualifications

• 5+ years' experience focused on performance engineering.
• Experience acting as performance lead on large scale corporate applications.
• Preferred Banking Industry experience.

Responsibilities

• Define non-functional requirements for performance, scalability, and resilience.
• Collaborate with teams to create reliable architecture.
• Develop tools to automate operational tasks.

Skills

Performance engineering

Java

Cobol

JMeter

Selenium

Grafana

AppDynamics

Education

Degree (NQF7) and relevant certification

Tools

Rancher

Jenkins

Bamboo

ConfigDB

Redis

Job description

Overview

Performance Test Engineer – Randburg, Full time.

Posted Today. 8 days left to apply. Job requisition id: R.

To implement and support performance testing systems and strategies to ensure critical components of a system's application can perform as expected under varying user loads, evaluating resource usage, speed, availability, response time, scalability, and reliability.

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Responsibilities

• Work with application stakeholders to define non-functional requirements covering performance, scalability, availability, resiliency, and reliability including Service Level Objectives and Agreements.
• Develop strategies to address the non-functional requirements throughout the Software or Product Development Life Cycle.
• Collaborate with architecture and development teams to create performant, highly resilient, and reliable architecture and design.
• Implement resiliency constructs and develop optimal code.
• Work with QA to validate and certify that performance, scalability, availability, resilience, and reliability requirements are met.
• Develop tools and utilities to automate manual operational tasks.
• Responsible for incidents related to non-functionals, updating standard operating procedures to capture metrics/logs for root cause analysis, and ensuring permanent closure of incidents.
• Analyze production utilization and incident patterns, identify improvement areas and implement automation to improve productivity and avoid recurring incidents.
• Communicate and present findings to executives.
• Learn and apply new technologies quickly.
• Adapt rapidly to new projects, setting up performance strategy and executing planning to satisfy stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Degree (NQF7) and relevant certification, including ISEB / ISTQB Certification; ISTQB Advanced Analyst.
• 5+ years’ experience focused on performance engineering and acting as performance lead on large scale corporate applications.
• Preferred Banking Industry experience with a focus on Java and Cobol technologies.
• Alternative experience working on projects for large corporates in retail, automotive, gaming, insurance, etc.
• Exposure/experience in JMeter, Selenium, Grafana, AppDynamics.
• Experience in Rancher, Jenkins, Bamboo, ConfigDB, Redis (beneficial).

Benefits

• Opportunities to network and collaborate.
• Challenging work.
• Opportunities to innovate.

Job Details

Applications will not be accepted after the closing date. Closing date: 02/11/25. All appointments will be made in line with FirstRand Group’s Employment Equity plan.

EEO Statement

The Bank supports the recruitment and advancement of individuals with disabilities. Candidates can voluntarily disclose disability information. The Bank will keep this information confidential unless required by law to disclose.