Performance Test Engineer

FNB South Africa; Randburg; On-site; ZAR 800 000 - 1 000 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution is seeking a Performance Test Engineer in Gauteng, Randburg. The ideal candidate will have over 5 years of experience in performance engineering, particularly in the banking industry, and will be responsible for implementing performance testing systems and strategies. Exposure to tools such as JMeter and Selenium is preferable. Strong communication skills and adaptability are essential. This role offers a competitive salary and a dynamic work environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years' experience focused on performance engineering.
• Banking industry experience preferred with Java and Cobol.
• Exposure to automation tools.

Responsibilities

• Implement and support performance testing systems.
• Define non-functional requirements with stakeholders.
• Analyze production utilization and incident patterns.

Skills

Performance testing

Communication skills

Adaptability

Automation skills

Analytical skills

Education

Degree (NQF7) and relevant certification

Tools

JMeter

Selenium

Grafana

AppDynamics

Rancher

Jenkins

Bamboo

Job description

Job Title

Performance Test Engineer

Job Location

Gauteng, Randburg

Deadline

November 30, 2025

Job Description

• To implement and support performance testing systems and strategies to ensure that critical components of a system’s application can perform as expected under varying user loads, helping to evaluate the resource usage, speed, availability, response time, scalability, and reliability of any given application and to assist in making it ready for production.

Are you someone who can

• Work with application stakeholders and 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.
• Work with architecture and development teams in creating performant, highly resilient and reliable architecture and design. Work with architecture and development teams in implementing resiliency constructs, develop optimal code.
• Work with QA to validate and certify if performance, scalability, availability, resilience and reliability requirements are met.
• Develop tools and utilities to automate manual operational task.
• Responsible for incidents related to non-Functionals, updating standard operating procedure to capture right set of metrics / logs for RCA, Root cause analysis of the incidents, solutions identification and ensure permanent closure of the incidents.
• Analyze production utilization and incidents patterns, identify improvement areas and implement automation to improve productivity, avoid manual tasks and recurring incidents.
• Strong communication and presentation skills with emphasis on executive communication.
• Ability to learn and apply new technologies quickly. Eagerness to learn new things.
• Highly adaptable with the ability to move into a new project while setting up a performance strategy and approach and executing that plan to the satisfaction of all project / application stakeholders.

You will be an ideal candidate if you

• Have a degree (NQF7) and relevant certification including ISEB / ISTQB Certification; ISTQB Advanced Analyst.
• Have 5+ years' experience with a focus on performance engineering and being the performance lead on large scale corporate applications.
• Required Industry experience: Banking Industry experience preferred with a focus on Java and Cobol technologies. Alternatively, experience in working on projects for large corporates in the retail, automotive, gaming, insurance, etc., industries.
• Have exposure / experience in the following tools: JMeter, Selenium, Grafana, AppDynamics.
• Have experience in the following: Rancher, Jenkins, Bamboo, ConfigDB, Redis (beneficial).

End Date

November 18, 2025