Performance Test Engineer

Job Description

End Date Tuesday 22 November 2022 Salary Range £39,654 - £51,480 We support agile workingclick here for more information on agile working options.Agile Working Options Other Agile Working Arrangements / Open to Discussion Job Description Summary . Job DescriptionPerformance TesterLondon based(Flexible working)Salary & Benefits:£41,592-£54,589 base salary, plus annual personal bonus, 15% employer pension contribution (when you put in 6%), 4% flexible cash pot, private medical insurance, 28 days holiday plus bank holidays.Were a family friendly organisation who focus on delivery, not time at your desk. A mature, flexible work environment, flexible start/finish hours, agile working practices. We care about your mental health and want to enable a good work-life balance.Who are Lloyds Banking GroupLloyds Banking Group is the UKs leading digital franchise, with over 13 million active online customers across our three main brands - including Lloyds Bank, Halifax and Bank of Scotland - as well as the biggest mobile bank in the country. Were buildingthe bank of the future, and we need your help. Were continuing our extensive transformation Programme, with an investment of £3bn, redefining what a bank is from the inside out.Where will this role sitThe overall vision within the Payments and Economic Crime Prevention (PECP) Value Stream is to promote social well-being for our customers by enabling them to make and receive payments and protect them from fraud and financial crime.We do this by supporting the PECP Business Areas in processing compliant, fast, secure, and flexible transaction management services and covering rising threats from social engineering and real time payments by implementing new and improved digital waysof meeting and exceeding our customer needs.What will I doWere looking to recruit Performance Test Engineers to be part of an autonomous Non-Functional Test team delivering change within Payments. We believe that people do not fit neatly into roles, and we value everyones individual skills, experience, and knowledge it is what makes you amazing! What follows is what you might find our Performance Test Engineers mostly doing, but your experience will flex depending on the teams needs, and your own aspirations. Our objective is to grow and create an environment whereyou can do what you enjoy.

• Collaborating with fellow Software Engineers, Business Analysts, Architects, Product Owners to design elegant performance test strategy
• Designing and building dependable, intuitive, intelligent performance test scripts, scenarios, and frameworks
• Developing and improving performance test integration in the CI/CD pipelines
• Exploring new testing techniques, keeping up to date with industry changes
• Opportunity to cross skill into functional automating testing, DevOps, and development
• Contributing to the Confluence Knowledge base to share new approaches and meet Definition of Ready/Done artefacts
• Contributing to the wider test engineering community through white papers and presentations
• Promoting the culture of SCRUM values and leading by example
• Take part in the engineering community across the group

What we need from you:

• Expertise in Load Testing, Stress, Soak, Endurance, availability, capacity, and Failover (Software & Hardware) testing
• Experience analysing performance test results and evaluating/troubleshooting performance bottlenecks across distributed multi-tier architecture and Big Data systems
• Experience with Splunk or Dynatrace
• Competent in designing, building, and executing performance tests using HP Performance Centre and HP Load Runner (JMeter and Gatlin beneficial)
• Competent developing tests with UNIX shell scripting or Java/C
• Ability to articulate performance issues, risks, bottlenecks, and socialise the performance vision and high-level solution including workload details
• Experience building efficient and effective testing process and practices
• Good understanding of testing in Hadoop Big Data Architecture and multi-tier/distributed systems
• Good understanding of different testing principles and practises (both functional and non-functional)
• Basic understanding of Accessibility Testing and Techniques
• Experience successfully testing server/client-side applications/services including:
  • SOAP APIs and REST APIs
  • Web and Mobile app Presentation layers
  • Kafka Topics

Desirable but not essential:

• Understanding (and ideally experience) of performing testing in containerised environments
• GCP Associate Cloud Engineer certification
• Working knowledge of Perfecto / Seetest / Nimbledroid / Headspin
• Experience using/maintaining/creating functional test automation frameworks to test:
  • Microservices
  • Thread / Heap Dump Analysis
  • JVM monitoring & Tuning
  • Code Profiling

Were a diverse group of people, but we all share in the vision of the untapped potential of human and machine intelligence. We believe that people dont fit neatly into roles, and we value everyones individual skills, experience and knowledgeits whatmakes you awesome!Join us and be part of an inclusive, values-based culture passionate about making a difference.Whatever your aspiration, you can also expect excellent benefits, personal development and a career thats enriching and full of opportunity.Together we make it possible! At Lloyds Banking Group, were driven by a clear purpo