Lead Performance Engineer

Your Primary Responsibilities:

• Develop proven grasp of the DTCC Software Delivery process, Performance Test Engineering framework, CoE (Center of Excellence) Engagement process as well as understanding of tech-stack (tools and technologies) to perform day-to-day job
• Prepare, maintain, and implement performance test scenarios based on non-functional requirements and follow standard DTCC testing guidelines
• Automate performance test scenarios by using current automated functional and performance test scripts in compliance with the non-functional framework
• Maintain traceability across Non-Functional Requirements, Performance Test Scenarios and Defects
• Review of performance test scenarios from both a technical and business perspective with collaborators, such as development teams and business
• Track defects to closure, report test results, continuously supervise execution achievements and call out as required
• Contribute to the technical aspects of Delivery Pipeline adoption for performance testing and improve adoption
• Identify environmental and data requirements; collaborate with Development and Testing teams to manage and maintain environment and data
• Provide mentorship to team members related to performance test coverage, performance test scenarios, and non-functional requirements
• Develop a basic understanding of the product being delivered including architecture considerations and technical design of the supported applications in relations to the performance and scalability.
• Work with Development and Architecture teams and find opportunities to improve the test coverage. Share suggestions for performance improvements
• Aligns risk and control processes into day-to-day responsibilities to supervise and mitigate risk; raises appropriately

**Note: Responsibilities of this role are not limited to the details above

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 6 years of related experience
• Bachelor's degree and/or equivalent experience

Talents Needed for Success:

• Expertise in LINUX/UNIX, shell scripting
• Experience using JMS/IBM-MQ messaging system and Administering the MQ systems
• Experience with understanding multi-technology end-to-end testing (distributed and mainframe systems)
• Experience in performance engineering (analysis, testing, and tuning)
• Experience developing n-tier, J2EE software applications
• Experience working in Unix or Linux environments
• Expertise in performance analysis of distributed platforms including Linux, Windows, AWS, Containers and VMware (tools: Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Splunk, CloudWatch, TeamQuest)
• Extensive knowledge of the functionality and performance aspects of the above computing platforms
• Experience in sophisticated statistical and analytical modeling
• Excellent analytical skills including: Data exploration, analysis and presentation applying descriptive statistics and graphical techniques
• Key Performance and volume metrics relationship modeling
• Understanding of queuing networks modeling and simulation modeling concepts and experience with one of the industry standard analytic modeling tools TeamQuest, Metron-Athenee, HyPerformix, and BMC
• Understanding of RESTful web service, JSON, and XML
• Experience in Relational Databases, preferably Oracle
• Experience with AWS services (Kinesis, Elastic Beanstalk, CloudWatch, Lambda, etc)
• Experience with CI/CD pipeline implementations, including testing, using Jenkins or similar tool
• Expert MS Office skills. Effective use of Excel statistical functions and sophisticated Power Point presentation skills
• Experience working with Agile teams (preferably scrum)
• Experience in the financial services industry is good to have