Performance Quality Engineer (Principal)

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 Principal 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 define and enable adoption of a performance test strategy that enables continuous automated performance testing in CI/CD pipelines to ensure the FIS Digital platform meets high standards of performance, scalability, and reliability. The ideal candidate will have a strong background and extensive hands-on experience with performance testing tools, frameworks, analysis, monitoring/observability tools, development and scripting, performance test environment and test data setup, APIs, and distributed systems.

What you will be doing:

·       Define performance test strategy and 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 performance testing frameworks. Design and execute performance test scripts.

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

·       Work with DevOps to setup and maintain performance test environments, configuration and test data.

·       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.

·       Evaluate performance testing tools and make recommendations for adoption based on quality, cost-effectiveness, and alignment with organizational goals.

·       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.

·       Act as a subject matter expert on Performance testing topics, provide technical guidance to stakeholders on Performance testing strategies and best practices, and contribute to knowledge sharing efforts.

·       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.

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