Performance Architect

**Job Title**: Performance Architect

**Location**:Pune

**About Barclays**

**Barclays is a British universal bank. We are diversified by business, by different types of customers and clients, and by geography. Our businesses include consumer banking and payments operations around the world, as well as a top-tier, full service, global corporate and investment bank, all of which are supported by our service company which provides technology, operations and functional services across the Group.**

**Risk and Control Objective**

Ensure that all activities and duties are carried out in full compliance with regulatory requirements, Enterprise Wide Risk Management Framework and internal Barclays Policies and Policy Standards.

**Working Flexibly**

We’re committed to providing a supportive and inclusive culture and environment for you to work in. This environment recognises and supports ways to balance your personal needs, alongside the professional needs of our business. Providing the opportunity for all our employees, globally to work flexibly empowers each of us to work in a way that suits our lives as well as enabling us to better service our customers’ and clients’ needs. Whether you have family commitments or you’re a carer, or whether you need study time or wish to pursue personal interests, our approach to working flexibly is designed to help you balance your life.

If you would like some flexibility then please discuss this with the hiring manager.

**Introduction**:
Deliver volume and performance testing engagement for End to End testing projects in Personal Banking. Own and drive complete VPT lifecycle from planning to clouser. Deliver project on time with defined quality and standards. Manage project stake holders. Innovate and implement new ideas to create value add for VPT team

**What will you be doing?**
- Engagement with Program/Project
- Overall responsibility for quality and governance and the performance of the systems.
- Ensure adherence to testing governance and processes
- Ensuring that no large scale performance problems hit production.
- Stakeholder management
- Demonstrate Barclays Guiding principles
- Effective and proactive planning to execute end to end VPT of a project/programme.
- Ensure VPT deliverables (VPT Test Strategy, Performance Test Plans, Test Model, Test Closure reports) are of highest quality
- Define testing strategy with clearly written detailed test approach for each of the in-scope Activities from VPT point of view.
- Facilitate defect triage so that all appropriate teams including own team participate in speedy resolution
- Drive collaboration between the VPT, Componant Application Development Team, support and business teams to ensure quality of delivery VPT.
- Provide accurate and timely status reports and project metrics to various levels of stakeholders and as agreed by the project and QA leadership team.
- Track all testing Risks/Issues/Dependencies/Assumptions from beginning of the project till closure and Highlight before hand to Programme and Project.
- Escalate any issues to Portfolio Test Lead and Program Manager as appropriate and in timely manner and provide options to resolve the issues from VPT point of View.

**What we’re looking for**:

- **Performance Testing**:

- Experienced in identifying Volume and Performance testing scope through explicit and implicit test requirements.
- Able to Interface effectively with business and technical stakeholders for requirements and design clarifications
- Experience in Assessing the VPT Approach based on non functional requirements(NFRs).
- Experience in both Client side, Server side, Monitoring and profiling tools using OS resources Perfmon, HP SiteScope, JVisualVm, NMON, and Dynatrace.
- Thorough understanding of API Architecture and Impact of Various Componant on VPT.
- Should have Excellent experience in Log Analysis.
- Should possess strong understanding of E2E VPT and Response time breakup of all Downsteram systems.
- Should have understanding of App Dynamics.
- Should have good understanding of Databases(Oracle, Mongo DB2 ) and impact of varioud DB concepts on VPT.
- Should have strong understanding of Test Environment Apporach.
- Should have experinace on Alayzing the Hardware parameters (CPU, Memory, Netwrok and IO operations) during VPT.
- Good understanding of Throughput, Response time and defining the thresolds for various VPT Parameters.
- Should have Knowledege of Service virtulaization using CA DevTest.
- Should have strong understanding of Jenkins.
- Should have strong understanding of Cloud Infrasturecture like AWS, OpenShift.
- Knowledge of any programming Langauge like Java, Python or C# will be an added advantage.
- Knowleadge of JMeter will be an added Advantage.

**Skills that will help you in the role**:

- Graduate with technical background
- Load Runner/HP Performance Center
- Diagnostic and monitoring tools like CA Wily Introscope, AppDynamics etc.
- Banking Domain Experiance