Non Functional Tester - Performance/Loadrunner

Job Description: Senior Performance Tester – Banking Domain

Position: Senior Performance Tester Industry: Banking / Financial Services Experience: 5–8 Years Location: Kuala Lumpur / Selangor Job Type: Permanent / Contract

Job Summary

We are looking for an experienced Senior Performance Tester with strong expertise in performance testing within the banking and financial services industry. The successful candidate will be responsible for planning, designing, executing and analysing performance tests to ensure banking applications and systems meet performance, scalability, reliability and stability requirements.

The candidate will work closely with developers, business analysts, infrastructure teams, solution architects and QA teams to identify performance bottlenecks and recommend optimisation solutions.

Key Responsibilities

* Design, develop and execute performance test scripts, test scenarios and test plans for banking applications.

* Conduct various types of performance testing, including Load Testing, Stress Testing, Endurance Testing, Volume Testing and Scalability Testing.

* Perform performance testing for core banking systems, internet banking, mobile banking, payment gateways and other financial applications.

* Identify, analyse and troubleshoot performance bottlenecks across application, database, middleware and infrastructure layers.

* Monitor system performance, response times, throughput, CPU utilisation, memory consumption and network latency.

* Analyse test results and prepare comprehensive performance test reports with recommendations.

* Work closely with development and infrastructure teams to resolve performance-related issues.

* Conduct baseline testing and benchmark application performance against defined SLAs and performance requirements.

* Develop and maintain automated performance test scripts using performance testing tools.

* Ensure banking applications meet performance, stability, scalability and reliability requirements before production deployment.

* Participate in performance tuning, capacity planning and production performance investigations.

* Support SIT, UAT and pre-production testing activities.

Technical Skills & Requirements

Performance Testing Tools

* Apache JMeter

* Micro Focus LoadRunner

* NeoLoad

* Gatling

Monitoring & APM Tools

* Dynatrace

* AppDynamics

* Splunk

* Grafana

* Prometheus

Technical Knowledge

* SQL and database performance analysis

* API and web services performance testing

* RESTful APIs

* Java / .NET application architecture

* Linux and Windows environments

* Middleware and application server performance

* Distributed systems and microservices

Banking Domain Knowledge

* Core Banking Systems

* Internet and Mobile Banking

* Payment Gateway Systems

* Credit Card Processing

* Fund Transfers

* Digital Banking Applications

* Banking API Integration

Qualifications & Experience

* Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering or equivalent.

* Minimum 5–8 years of experience in software testing, with strong focus on performance testing.

* At least 3 years of hands-on experience in performance testing.

* Previous experience in banking or financial services projects is highly preferred.

* Strong experience with JMeter, LoadRunner or NeoLoad.

* Good analytical, troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.

* Experience working in Agile or Waterfall project environments.

* Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.