Senior Performance Engineer

Job Description

We are FIS. Our technology powers the world’s economy and our teams bring innovation to life. We champion diversity to deliver the best products and solutions for our colleagues, clients and communities. If you’re ready to start learning, growing and making an impact with a career in fintech, we’d like to know: Are you FIS?

About the role:
The Senior Performance Engineer will play a critical role in the performance and scalability of FIS’ Digital Platform APIs and back-end services driving the delivery of a reliable, secure and scalable banking platform.  In this role, you will ensure the FIS Digital platform and products meet high standards for performance, scalability and reliability. You will implement and execute performance tests and utilize monitoring and observability tools to identify bottlenecks. The ideal candidate will have a strong background and experience with performance testing tools, frameworks, analysis, monitoring/observability tools, development and scripting, test data setup, APIs, and cloud services.

What you will be doing:

·       Define performance test plans to ensure that the performance/scalability of FIS Digital banking platform and products meets non-functional requirements and aligns with the product business requirements.

·       Implement, execute, and maintain performance test scripts.

·       Integrate performance tests into CI/CD pipelines to enable continuous performance testing and Quality Gates.

·       Maintain performance test environments, configuration and automated test data setup.

·       Utilize performance monitoring tools, such as Datadog APM or Dynatrace, to identify bottlenecks and work with development teams to resolve.

·       Communicate performance testing progress, risks and results to stakeholders to enable production deployment readiness decisions

·       Collaborate with Architects and Development teams to recommend optimizations and improvements based off performance test results.

·       Drive a culture of continuous improvement in performance testing and help teams increase productivity and foster innovation.

·       Research, Implement and maintain performance test frameworks, scripts and tools.

·       Demonstrated ability to innovate and leverage new technologies, tools, and techniques to solve complex technical challenges in performance testing, performance test environments and test data management.

·       Enable teams with the Performance testing frameworks, pipelines and tools that promote continuous performance testing and benchmarks.

·       Implement performance testing as a quality gate in CI/CD pipelines.

·       Participate in code reviews to maintain the quality and stability of the performance test frameworks and scripts.

·       Contribute to knowledge sharing on Performance testing strategies and best practices.

·       Collaborate with development, QE, DevOps, product management, and other teams to align performance testing goals and drive continuous improvement.

·       Champion a culture of innovation, creativity, and excellence in Quality within the Digital teams, fostering collaboration and a positive work environment.

What you will need:

·       Experience with performance testing tools like JMeter, K6, or Locust

·       Experience with performance monitoring tools like DataDog APM or Dynatrace

·       Proficient in JavaScript and at least one more scripting language, such as Python.<