Job description
Responsibilities:
- Lead performance testing initiatives, providing mentorship and guidance to team members
- Create and execute detailed performance testing plans
- Analyze testing outcomes to pinpoint performance challenges and recommend optimization strategies
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive performance enhancements
- Update and refine performance testing scripts and tools
- Troubleshoot issues and perform root cause analysis on performance slowdowns
- Conduct thorough performance test analysis, including thread level, garbage collection, heap dump, and thread dump analyses
- Identify failures and deliver practical recommendations for performance tuning
- Anticipate potential challenges and propose solutions to foster continuous improvement in performance engineering practices
- Develop and implement strategies and frameworks for performance testing
- Work alongside stakeholders to establish performance requirements and objectives
- Collaborate with US teams, cross-POD tech leads, and global stakeholders to synchronize performance targets
- Partner closely with product and development teams to capture non-functional requirements (NFRs) from business needs, ensuring they influence design and development phases
Requirements:
Must have:
- Bachelors degree in a relevant field with 6 years of experience in systems engineering or programming
- Alternatively, a High School Diploma or GED with 10 years of experience in systems engineering or programming
- Strong understanding of performance testing principles
- Proficiency in performance testing tools such as Neoload, Load Runner, or JMeter
- In-depth analytical capabilities and the ability to perform diagnostics beyond tool execution
- Expertise in heap dump analysis
- Proficient in programming and scripting languages like Java or Python
- Comprehensive knowledge of system architecture, databases, and network protocols
- Experience with performance tuning techniques
- Strong business acumen regarding financial systems, with a preference for digital banking platform experience
- Remarkable problem-solving skills and detail orientation
- Excellent communication, documentation, and teamwork abilities
- Demonstrated leadership qualities and collaborative skills
Company:
We are offering an exciting remote opportunity for a Senior Performance Engineer to play a critical role in shaping our IT Testing organization at SVB. Our ideal candidate will lead pivotal initiatives that support efficiency and quality across various business projects. We value collaboration, as this position requires working across different time zones with teams worldwide. We pride ourselves on providing a competitive and well-structured benefits program for our associates, designed to cater to diverse needs. Join us in delivering top-notch solutions to our clients while fostering professional growth in an engaging environment.