Performance Testing Lead in Mississauga

Citi Treasury and Trade Solutions (TTS) provide services across the globe. Performance testing & engineering is key to establish service level agreement & achieve excellent user experience. Non-functional testing group supports 200+ applications across multiple lines of business within TTS group. TTS NFT team is looking for a Performance Engineering Lead who will take ownership of multiple applications' performance testing solutions & play an SME role to engage with Development, Architect & Business teams to gather the requirements & design the performance testing approach to certify the application changes before production deployments. This role requires working closely with the Global NFT team & is expected to lead & mentor the team. The position is expected to play a dual role of manager as well as handle delivery for assigned LOB or multiple critical applications on a need basis. The person should have strong knowledge to lead Non-Functional Testing (Performance Testing & Engineering) for applications with complex architecture and should have exposure in monitoring, profiling & analyzing with industry-standard tools.

Responsibilities:

• This role is for Performance Testing Lead & expected to have SME level knowledge to drive the non-functional testing solution for applications with complex architecture, Middleware applications along with Service virtualization & Data Management.
• Overall responsibility of Performance Engineering and Performance Testing Tasks for engaged projects - including strategy, estimation, planning, execution oversight, metrics reporting and risk management.
• Bottom-line responsibility for providing thought leadership and expertise concerning Non-Functional Testing for the team, its members and the deliverables.
• Manage, train and mentor (as needed) Performance Engineers and Testers in the team.

Primary Skills:

• Performance Testing & Engineering.
• Tools: Loadrunner Enterprise with Web, Web Services (Rest, Microservices), MQ (Java), AWR analysis, JVM Profiling, Application Profiling, AppDynamics, Kibana & Log Analysis, SPLUNK, CA Service Virtualization (LISA).
• Strong understanding of JVM, Operating System & RDBMS is mandatory.
• The implementation and execution of a performance test framework for non-functional testing (load, volume, stress, capacity and scalability) which validate business non-functional requirements.
• Produce and maintain Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) around the testing performed. Manage best in class service quality and manage SLA accordingly.
• In-depth knowledge and working experience with LRE, App Dynamics and Open Source performance/monitoring tools.
• A strong knowledge of / experience with profiling application end-to-end performance and identifying application and hardware / operating systems bottlenecks.
• Experience in identifying and providing tuning recommendations for various infrastructure components such as Application Servers, Database Servers, PEGA, Message Buses and Web Servers.
• Experience of working in Agile testing methodology.
• Good collaboration & ability to communicate with technical & non-technical stakeholders.
• Develop performance test artefacts including Performance test strategy and test plans/estimates, & KPI reports.
• Collaboration with other teams including Development, Architect, Business and Production Support.
• Strive towards continuous process improvement & test framework/scripts optimization to achieve efficient testing solutions.
• Attention to details & ability to automate repetitive tasks.
• Preferred hands-on experience with one or more programming languages i.e. Java, JavaScript, C#, Python, Ruby, etc.
• Business domain knowledge of Corporate Digital Channels, Payments, Receivable & Treasury will be an added advantage.

Qualifications:

• 5+ years in Performance engineering role. Ability to work independently or within groups on projects assigned.
• Requires in-depth knowledge, understanding and analytical thought. Exhibits comprehensive knowledge of several areas within IT Quality and has a good understanding of the industry.
• Strong understanding of testing & engineering processes. In-depth understanding of the Systems Development Lifecycle and solid experience in several phases of systems development, preferably in testing program management. Must demonstrate confidence in their abilities.

Education:

• Bachelor’s/University degree or equivalent experience.