Performance Tester

Description

Looking for an analytical performance tester that has at least 6 years experience with Load Runner and JMeter with scripting in those areas. Cloud experience with AWS would be a nice to have but not required. Java experience is also a plus but not required. This role will start in January and is a 12 month contract with opportunity to extend.

Experience measuring performance in a payment application would also be a plus. Supporting Fedwire performance testing.

Our strategy defines our future direction, seeking to offer a fully integrated product suite that provides speed, resilience, and choice in meeting the payments needs of financial institutions across the United States. Through our Enterprise structure, we strive to meet the needs of the marketplace for new products and services with speed and agility, seek to provide a robust and unified customer experience, and work to create career growth opportunities for staff.

We seek leaders to set the vision, strategy, values, and priorities that enable FRFS to achieve its mission. Our leaders must demonstrate a strategic, action‑oriented mindset focused on intellectual curiosity, agility, accountability, and the ability to drive innovation through experimentation. To achieve our vision for a people‑focused organization with a strong collaborative and innovative culture, we expect our leaders to champion an inclusive environment and demonstrate our values in how we work and interact with each other and our broader community.

• Conduct comprehensive performance testing, encompassing requirement gathering, test planning, scripting, execution, analysis, and result reporting/sharing with stakeholders.
• Assess the system under test (SUT) communication protocol to determine the appropriate scripting protocol.
• Exhibit advanced proficiency in programming languages such as Python, JavaScript, Java, Visual Basic, Linux command languages, and other programming languages.
• Collaborate effectively with product development & implementation teams, architecture, infrastructure, and engineering groups for performance testing and application analysis initiatives to define success criteria and evaluation methodologies.
• Design and establish load test scenarios for various types of performance tests including load tests, stress tests, volume tests, failover tests, etc.
• Coordinate and collaborate with other dependent teams across the product line to ensure the success of the overall test run.
• Integrate security requirements and testing into the overall pipeline strategy by working with the security team & test engineers.
• Conduct manual testing to validate vulnerabilities.
• Monitor server utilization during test runs.
• Participate in code reviews for performance test scenarios & create/maintain test data.
• Evaluate non‑functional requirements to determine acceptance criteria.
• Engage in production log analysis to determine target and peak load models.
• Upload performance test scenarios and other artifacts to Subversion and/or other management tools as directed.
• Work with configuration management to schedule the execution of performance tests to support the automatic deployment of software.
• Maintain performance test scenarios & test scripts.
• Perform API performance testing and integrate it into the CI pipeline.
• Monitor system‑level statistics during performance test executions.
• Develop and submit performance test reports.
• Analyze performance test results comprehensively.
• Collect system performance statistics from the front‑end and back‑end.
• Correlate front‑end and back‑end system performance statistics to present comprehensive test reports.
• Support the implementation and maintenance of performance testing tools.
• Participate in reviews with agile teams and product owners.
• Collaborate effectively and creatively to resolve any testing problems, bottlenecks, or issues.
• Perform additional testing‑related tasks as assigned.
• Stay abreast of new and emerging performance testing technologies and techniques.
• Adapt new and emerging technologies and techniques to meet the evolving demands in software development.
• Utilize CI integration tools to support continuous integration specifically…