Lead Performance Test Engineer

• Develop strong understanding 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 execute performance test scenarios based on non-functional requirements and follow standard DTCC testing guidelines
• Automate performance test scenarios by leveraging 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 stakeholders, such as development teams and business
• Track defects to closure, report test results, continuously monitor execution milestones and escalate as required
• Contribute to the technical aspects of Delivery Pipeline adoption for performance testing and enhance adoption
• Identify environmental and data requirements; collaborate with Development and Testing teams to manage and maintain environment and data
• Provide guidance 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
• Develop understanding of the logical architecture and technical design of the supported applications in relations to the performance and scalability
• Collaborate with Development and Architecture teams and identify opportunities to improve the test coverage. Share suggestions for performance improvements
• Aligns risk and control processes into day to day responsibilities to monitor and mitigate risk; escalates appropriately

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

• Strong Problem Solving and Critical Thinking skills.
• Minimum of 5+ years of mainframe experience: JCL, COBOL, DB2, VSAM, CICS, MQ, REXX, scheduling, sort, performance monitoring tools
• Experience in the performance testing of large scale securities trading applications - functional and non-functional testing preferred
• Proficient in MS tools: Word, Excel, PowerPoint
• Ability to collaborate with offshore team and other departments and
• Financial Industry experience is a plus
• Proven ability to develop test strategies, test plans and test approaches
• Experience with multi-technology end-to-end testing (distributed and mainframe systems) preferred
• Experience writing and/or designing custom tools for performance testing and analysis
• Proficient in infrastructure architectural concepts and familiar with performance monitoring and measurement
• Good interpersonal, communication and organizational skills.

• Experience supporting high-volume transactional applications in financial services environments.
• Familiarity with resiliency testing, failure mode analysis, and non-functional requirements (NFR) validation.

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

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