Citi Looking for Equities Performance Testing Lead (AVP – IT Quality Senior Analyst – C12) at Pune, Maharashtra Full Time

The IT Quality Sr Analyst is a seasoned professional role. Applies in-depth disciplinary knowledge, contributing to the development of new techniques and the improvement of processes and work-flow for the area or function. Integrates subject matter and industry expertise within a defined area. Requires in-depth understanding of how areas collectively integrate within the sub-function as well as coordinate and contribute to the objectives of the function and overall business. Requires good analytical skills in order to filter, prioritize and validate potentially complex and dynamic material from multiple sources. Strong communication and diplomacy skills are required. Regularly assumes informal/formal leadership role within teams. Involved in coaching and training of new recruits Significant impact in terms of project size, geography, etc. by influencing decisions through advice, counsel and/or facilitating services to others in area of specialization. Work and performance of all teams in the area are directly affected by the performance of the individual.

Play vital role in Non-Functional Testing to measure the performance and scalability characteristics of systems. Own performance testing and engineering to assess the system for realistic production usage prior to its production release. Support in performance testing, KPI monitoring, scalability analysis, chaos test validation, tuning and capacity planning.

Responsibilities :
Performance Testing / Engineering delivery for low latency etrading applications in a fast paced environments

End to end ownership of performance testing/engineering activities – planning, performance test strategy development, workload model creation, environment setup, monitoring setup, test execution, metrics reporting, performance analysis and reporting.

Contribute in building performance toolsets for load simulation, venue simulation, test data generation, reporting, etc

Lead continuous performance test process improvement activities and enhance performance testing efficiency & coverage

Study & analyze the application architecture, diverse tech stacks , infrastructure to define effective Performance testing strategies

Carryout performance testing for diverse set of applications – Legacy/Monolithic, On-Premise, Cloud, Microservices, Openshift, ECS / AWS

Design & execute various types of performance test (load, stress, capacity, endurance, etc) to validate applications against Performance NFRs

Deliver effective performance testing report for regulatory audits.

Maintenance of performance tools, managing requirements in JIRA, maintain effective documentation in confluence, defect management in JIRA

Ensure high quality deliverables, performance testing coverage, monitoring & troubleshooting of issues in fast paced environment.

Own deep dive performance diagnostics using APM tools. Collaborate with development teams to resolve the performance issues & assist in performance fix validation.

Maintain strong working relationship with development, functional QA and other stakeholders

Lead continuous process improvement initiatives within the team

Provide daily , weekly status reports as per established governance requirements

Single point of contact for all deliverables from the Performance Testing / Engineering team

Mentor / Train Performance Testers / Engineers in the team

Qualifications:
12+ years experience in Performance Testing / Engineering. Experience in developing performance testing strategy for low latency applications.

Strong experience in performance testing of etrading applications with in-depth knowledge and proficiency in FIX & binary protocols

Strong proficiency in performance analysis / troubleshooting potential bottlenecks. Experience in heap dump / thread dump analysis / GC analysis

Strong experience in configuring & building dashboards on AppDynamics & Grafana.

Experience in defining, monitoring & reporting of Performance KPIs

Experience in performance testing of Solace / Tibco message brokers

Possess strong engineering skills to enable performance validation as part of CI/CD pipeline

Ability to think beyond market available performance testing tools & develop inhouse performance testing utilities / scripts / tools for testing & reporting of performance metrics.

Development background will be an advantage. Good to have programming skills in Java or C# or Python.

Requires in-depth knowledge, understanding and analytical thought process towards performance analysis of complex low latency platforms

Experience working in a global team. Possess good planning & team management skills.

Good business communication & collaboration skills. Excellent written and oral communication.

Good to have Equities domain knowledge.

Education:
Bachelor’s/University degree or equivalent experience

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Job Family Group:
Technology

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Job Family:
Technology Quality

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Time Type:
Full time

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