Performance Tester

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HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organisations in the world, with operations in 64 countries and territories. We aim to be where the growth is, enabling businesses to thrive and economies to prosper, and, ultimately, helping people to fulfil their hopes and realise their ambitions.

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Consultant Specialist 

In this role, you will: 

As a PE SME, you will be focusing on performance engineering to ensure system reliability, capacity and scalability of the core
platform (based on AWS and On-Prem) products & infrastructure, develop and maintain test strategy and test development in
line with the Agile development process. In this role, you will lead performance testing & engineering efforts for FD product
lines and engineering disciplines. The successful candidate also acts as POC for key stakeholders

Responsibilities will include:

• In this role, you will lead performance Engineering and testing efforts across FD engineering disciplines and provide
ongoing input into the overall process improvement of the Performance Engineering discipline within Digital / Channels
Transformation

• Opportunity to build Performance assurance procedures with the latest feasible tools and techniques, establish
Performance test automation process to improve testing productivity.

• You are expected to support multiple Cloud (AWS) migration and Production initiatives using a wide range of tools and
utilities, you identify performance related issues in the applications and systems and present your findings to other teams
in the organization to ensure system reliability.

• Represent testing at Scrum meetings and all other key project meetings and provide a single point of accountability and
escalation for testing within the scrum teams

• Advise on needed infrastructure and Performance Engineering and testing guidelines & be responsible for performance
risk assessment of various platform features

• This is a largely cross-functional opportunity working with software product, development and support teams, capable of
handling tasks to accelerate the testing delivery and to improve the quality for Applications at HSBC

• Work across all global activities and support the Performance Engineering team in ensuring any testing -related
dependencies/ touchpoints are in place.

• You will be a Performance Engineering SME, as a result, you will have exposure to a broader set of problems,
understanding customer experience, migrations, new cloud initiatives, improving platform performance, Optimize
environments.

To be successful in this role, you should meet the following requirements:

To be successful in this role, you should meet the following requirements:

• Performance Engineering, testing and tuning cloud hosted digital platforms (e.g. AWS)

• Working knowledge (preferably with an AWS Solutions Architect certification) on Cloud Platforms like AWS and AWS
Key Services and DevOps tools like CloudFormation, Teraform

• Performance engineering toolsets such as JMeter, Microfocus Performance Center, BrowserStack, Taurus, Lighthouse,
, Monitoring/logging tools (such as AppDynamics, New Relic, Splunk, DataDog)

• Windows / UNIX / Linux / Web / Database / Network performance monitors to diagnose performance issues along with
JVM tuning and Heap analysing skills

• Docker, Kubernetes and Cloud-native development and container orchestration frameworks, Kubernetes clusters, pods &
nodes, vertical/horizontal pod autoscaling concepts, High availability

• Performance Testing and Engineering activity planning, estimating, designing, executing and analysing output from
performance tests

• Working in an agile environment, "DevOps" team or a similar multi -skilled team in a technically demanding function
, Jenkins and CI-CD Pipelines including Pipeline scripting

• Programming and scripting language skills in Java, Shell, Scala, Groovy, Python and knowledge of security mechanisms such
as OAuth etc.

You'll achieve more when you join HSBC.

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Issued by – HSBC Software Development India