Performance Tester

Job title : Performance Tester
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.

BUK & BX - All locations

Please discuss the detail of the working pattern options for the role with the hiring manager.

Introduction:
1) Working Experience in UI, API and Batch Application Performance testing.
2) Good understanding of Load Balancers mechanisms, Virtual servers, Virtual Pools, Rules, Connection & Cookie persistence.
3) Experience in Network Monitoring parameters along with Cloud infrastructure & monitoring
4) Conceptual Understanding/Hands on of AIX, VMware, Tomcat, SQL Server, Oracle, etc.
5) Understanding & experience in Heap & Thread Dump analysis, tuning recommendations to fix performance issues
6) Sound understanding of Java/JVM architecture, JVM tuning, GC, Class loading, Thread Dump Analysis, JMX based JVM monitoring.
7) Identify the bottlenecks using appropriate tools and provide suggestions/recommendations to resolve the issues
8) C, Java and Shell script knowledge will be helpful in this role
9) Awareness of tools such as Fiddler, Wireshark, Insomnia, Postman, etc.

What will you be doing?
1) Drive Non Functional Requirement requirements for the program and get the required details working with Architects, Engineering teams.
2) Engage with Program / Project to assess the impact of changes on testing and provide effort estimates based on impact analysis
3) Walkthrough the solutions and plans to engineering and product teams.
4) Design solutions, frameworks, tooling leveraging in house, open source, licensed or build your own.
5) Develop automated(CI/CD pipeline) test scenarios and environments for performance testing.
6) Adopt the best practices for developing automated test script and test executions using loadrunner and JMeter.
7) Manage defect process and ensure that the process is followed and correct priorities / severities are assigned
8) Collaborate with the relevant teams, to ensure high quality Performance testing

What we’re looking for:
Essential Skills
GRADE AVP
Category Skills Beginner Intermediate Expert
Execute Write, Optmize, Maintain & Execute Performance scripts Y
Execute Monitoring & Logging Tools : AppDynamics/Splunk/Grafana/Dynatrace/ELK Y
Execute Test and Defect Mgmt Tools : JIRA/XRAY/Zephyr/Rally/Test Rails Y
Service Version Control : SVN, Bit Bucket, GIT ,GitLab Y
Execute Database Performance Optimization(Oracle/SQL Server) Y
Service Scripting languages - Bean/Shell/Javascript/Shell/Groovy Y
Execute Execution of API Test on different cloud platforms Y
Execute CI/CD on test automation scripts in Jenkins Y
Service Monitoring CPU Utilization, JVM heap utilization, Garbage Collection Mechanisms, Thread Management, Connection Pool, long running DB query etcq Y
Manage Drive Non Functional Requirement requirements for the program and get the required details working with Architects, Engineering teams Y
Excellence Designing Performance frameworks, optimizing solution for performance enhancement Y
Excellence BFSI (Banking Financial Insurance ) Domain Y

Key Points to consider

Ensure all Skills are evaluated for interviews, See category definitions whilst evaluating resources at different grades.
- Execute : indicates skills needed to carry out Test related activities
- Service : indicates skills needed to support Test related activities
- Manage: indicates skills needed to manage Test related activities
- Excellence : indicates skills needed to excel Test related activities"

Skills that will help you in the role
Practioner AWS Cloud Services
Performance testing (Using Loadnrunner, JMeter, Performance Center)
Tools such as Fiddler,