Performance Test Lead

Who We Are

Provenir is a global fintech company with offices across North America, the UK, and Singapore. Provenir helps fintechs, financial institutions, and payment providers make smarter decisions, faster. We are passionate about technology and empowering businesses to become industry leaders. As a leading provider of decisioning and analytics products for financial services and other industries, we empower businesses to create digital-first decisioning solutions that drive business growth. If you’d like to work at an innovative fintech with a global footprint that is redefining the industry, then we want you!

What will you do?

The Lead Performance Test Engineer will be responsible to assure the quality of our products by performing and automating the performance tests. You will automate performance tests for

microservices and their related front ends. You will also manage servers in development and production on Cloud services.

As a Lead Performance Test Engineer

• Analyze business scenarios and understand the non-functional requirements
• Design the performance test strategy, test planning, test scenarios, work model and execution
• Perform performance testing for applications spanning UIs, APIs, SQL database and NoSQL database
• Perform Load, Scalability, and Stress testing
• Monitor, analyze performance test results, interpret performance metrics, and deliver summary reports
• Pinpoint and troubleshoot the performance issues and recommend solutions for performance improvement
• Integrate the performance tests with the deployment pipeline to continuously evaluate the system performance (CI/CD software delivery models)
• Closely collaborate with development teams to ensure deadlines are met and system performance is acceptable before production implementation
• Have knowledge of full system development life cycles

What’s Required

Education: A Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related field is required

Experience:

• 7+ years of experience in Performance Engineering / Testing, and/or Tools Development teams for the Enterprise
• Advanced Knowledge of performance testing concepts and the type of tests (load, endurance, stress, failover)

Qualifications, Strengths and Skills:

1. Proven background in performance and Non-functional requirements testing from strategy to execution
2. Experience in designing and executing performance testing for API, Web, and database.
3. Proficiency working with web applications and cloud deployments (AWS, Azure, GCP)
4. Possess a good understanding of software development lifecycle and performance testing methodologies.
5. Identifying and troubleshooting the root causes of performance issues in application, system, middleware, and database
6. Experience in providing recommendations to resolve bottlenecks
7. Background with test and server monitoring tools (e.g., Datadog, AppDynamics, Jenkins, Splunk etc.)
8. Benchmark system performance, database performance analysis, capacity sizing and optimization.
9. Hands on experience on the below areas:

• Database (MySQL / PostgreSQL) performance engineering (Tuning, Scaling, Deployment Architecture, Query Analysis)
• Java & Java script (JVM tuning, GC, heap and thread dump analysis)
• OS (Performance Monitoring, troubleshooting & configuration)
• System design & Architecture
• Advanced JMeter (/other industry standard load testing tools) scripting
• API and UI performance test tools

1. Strong problem-solving and analytical skills with an aptitude and passion for learning new technologies
2. Outstanding team player with excellent interpersonal skills

Nice to Have

• Build and release management experience.
• Solid background with agile software development methodologies (e.g., scrum)
• Experience with concurrency, multithreading, and the deployment of distributed system architectures
• Understanding of database schemas, table spaces, indexing, and performance optimization techniques
• Docker or Kubernetes, microservices, container deployment and service orchestration
• Experience using and/or developing on a Unix/Linux platform

Our employees are our top priority, we offer comprehensive health and wellness plans. You will enjoy paid time off and company holidays, flexible and remote-friendly opportunities, and maternity/paternity leave along with retirement benefits to plan for your future.

At Provenir, we recognize that diversity and inclusion make our teams stronger. We are committed to equal employment opportunity and welcome everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, marital status, domestic partner status, citizenship, or veteran status or medical condition. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply.