Performance Tester Lead

As a senior Performance Testing / Performance Engineering professional, you will be responsible for building and driving performance testing capabilities for BFSI applications. Your role will involve collaborating closely with business and technology stakeholders to identify business-critical performance requirements and define non-functional requirements (NFRs). You will also play a key role in selecting appropriate tools and establishing end-to-end performance engineering practices. This high-ownership role requires a combination of technical depth and a consultative mindset. Key Responsibilities: - Work with business stakeholders, architects, and product owners to identify business-critical user journeys and performance expectations. - Define and document Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs) such as response time, throughput, scalability, availability, and resilience. - Design the performance testing strategy, including scope, approach, tools, environments, and success criteria. - Evaluate, recommend, and implement performance testing tools based on application architecture and business needs (e.g., JMeter, LoadRunner, NeoLoad). - Build reusable performance test frameworks, scripts, and test assets. - Execute various types of performance tests including Load, Stress, Endurance, Spike, Scalability, and Volume testing. - Perform end-to-end performance analysis across application, middleware, database, and infrastructure layers. - Identify system bottlenecks and collaborate with development, DB, infra, and architecture teams to recommend optimizations. - Define performance baselines, SLAs, and release performance gates. - Establish performance reporting, dashboards, and governance processes. - Provide performance sign-off recommendations for releases. Mandatory Skills: - Strong hands-on experience with performance testing tools: JMeter, LoadRunner, NeoLoad. - Proven ability to design performance testing frameworks. - Excellent understanding of performance engineering concepts and best practices. - Strong analytical skills for result interpretation and bottleneck identification. Domain Experience: - Mandatory experience in BFSI domain (Banking, Financial Services, Payments, Trading, Insurance, etc.). - Strong understanding of BFSI system characteristics such as high transaction volumes and peak load scenarios. Technical Skills (Good to Have): - Strong SQL / PL-SQL for database performance validation. - Linux/Unix system monitoring and troubleshooting. - Experience with APM & monitoring tools (Dynatrace, AppDynamics, New Relic, Grafana, etc.). - Experience with Log Analysis using tools like Splunk, DataDog. - Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and integrating performance tests into DevOps workflows. - Exposure to performance testing in cloud or hybrid environments (AWS/Azure). - Familiarity with capacity planning and workload modeling. Soft Skills & Expectations: - Strong communication and stakeholder management skills. - Ability to translate business expectations into measurable performance requirements. - Experience working with global teams and UK shift timings. - Proactive mindset with ownership-driven delivery. Mandatory Competencies: - Performance Tools - JMeter. - QA/QE - QA Automation - Performance testing (JMeter, LoadRunner, NeoLoad, etc.). - Beh - Communication. - QA/QE - QA Automation - Basic Build, Deployment and CI/CD. - FS Domain - Financial Services - Financial Services. As a senior Performance Testing / Performance Engineering professional, you will be responsible for building and driving performance testing capabilities for BFSI applications. Your role will involve collaborating closely with business and technology stakeholders to identify business-critical performance requirements and define non-functional requirements (NFRs). You will also play a key role in selecting appropriate tools and establishing end-to-end performance engineering practices. This high-ownership role requires a combination of technical depth and a consultative mindset. Key Responsibilities: - Work with business stakeholders, architects, and product owners to identify business-critical user journeys and performance expectations. - Define and document Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs) such as response time, throughput, scalability, availability, and resilience. - Design the performance testing strategy, including scope, approach, tools, environments, and success criteria. - Evaluate, recommend, and implement performance testing tools based on application architecture and business needs (e.g., JMeter, LoadRunner, NeoLoad). - Build reusable performance test frameworks, scripts, and test assets. - Execute various types of performance tests including Load, Stress, Endurance, Spike, Scalability, and Volume testing. - Perform end-to-end performance analysis across application, middleware, database, and infrastructure layers. - Identify system bottlenecks and collaborate with development, DB, infra, and architecture teams