Lead Performance Engineer at DTCC Candidate Experience Site — Hyderabad, IND | Base Career

Are you ready to make an impact at DTCC?

Do you want to work on innovative projects, collaborate with a dynamic and supportive team, and receive investment in your professional development?

At DTCC, we are at the forefront of innovation in the financial markets.

We are committed to helping our employees grow and succeed.

We believe that you have the skills and drive to make a real impact.

We foster a thriving internal community and are committed to creating a workplace that looks like the world that we serve.

The Information Technology group delivers secure, reliable technology solutions that enable DTCC to be the trusted infrastructure of the global capital markets.

The team delivers high-quality information through activities that include development of essential, building infrastructure capabilities to meet client needs and implementing data standards and governance.

Pay and Benefits:

Competitive compensation, including base pay and annual incentive
Comprehensive health and life insurance and well-being benefits, based on location
Pension / Retirement benefits
Paid Time Off and Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being.
DTCC offers a flexible/hybrid model of 3 days onsite and 2 days remote (onsite Tuesdays, Wednesdays and a third day unique to each team or employee).

The Impact you will have in this role:

Being a member of Database Engineering and Platform Assurance team, you will be responsible for ensuring that all applications and systems meet defined quality standards.

As a Lead Performance Engineer, you will drive performance engineering strategy across critical enterprise applications and platforms.

You will partner with Architecture, Development, Infrastructure, and Product teams to ensure scalable, resilient, and high-performing solutions.

You will develop, conduct, and evaluate testing processes, working closely with developers to remediate identified system defects.

You will play a key role in advancing the organization's performance engineering practices, automation frameworks, and testing capabilities while mentoring engineers and influencing technology decisions.

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
Track defects to closure, report test results, continuously supervise execution achievements and call out as required
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.

Minimum of 6 years of related experience
Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience

Experience in performance engineering (analysis, testing, and tuning)
Experience developing n-tier, J2EE software applications
Expertise in performance analysis of distributed platforms including Linux, Windows, AWS, Containers and VMware (tools: Dynatrace, Splunk, Grafana, ELK, CloudWatch, Datadog, TeamQuest)
Expertise in performance and load testing tools such as Apache JMeter, LoadRunner, or similar platforms. Familiarity with Playwright or Selenium for automation testing is a plus.
Expertise in load testing tools, such as Apache JMeter, LoadRunner, Microsoft Playwright etc.
Experience in scripting (Unix shell, Python, Groovy)
Experience using JMS/IBM-MQ messaging system
Understanding of RESTful web service, JSON, and XML
Experience analyzing and tuning database performance across Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, and Snowflake environments.
Experience with cloud services preferably Azure, GCP or AWS
Experience with CI/CD pipeline implementations, including testing, using Jenkins or similar tool
Experience working with Agile teams (preferably scrum)
Familiarity with AI technologies like Copilot, Amazon Q and Amazon Kiro
Experience in the financial services industry is preferred. Familiarity with distributed ledger technology (DLT), blockchain platforms, and digital asset ecosystems is a plus.
Familiarity with resilience testing, fault injection, and chaos engineering practices using tools such as Gremlin is a plus.

Actual salary is determined based on the role, location, individual experience, skills, and other considerations.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company.

We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.

Please contact us to request accommodation.

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