Senior Performance Test Engineer

Date:  8 Sep 2024
Location: 

Sydney, NSW, AU, 2000 Brisbane, QLD, AU, 4000 Hobart, TAS, AU, 7000 Melbourne, VIC, AU, 3000 Perth, WA, AU, 6000

Employment Type:  Permanent Full Time
  • Join a diverse and talented testing team!
  • Build and lead the performance testing competency for a diverse technology product portfolio!
  • Develop and implement performance testing frameworks and strategies

 

At Insignia Financial, we’re shaping the future of financial services in Australia, and you might already know us through our well-respected brands like IOOF, and MLC. With a dedicated team of around 5000 professionals across the nation, we’re committed to providing exceptional financial solutions and support to our clients. Join us and become a key player in our mission to empower financial well-being across the country!

 

The opportunity to join our team

 

We are looking for a talented Senior Performance Test Engineer to join our dynamic testing team at Insignia Financial on a permanent basis. This is an exciting opportunity to be part of our expanding team, especially in an enterprise-level consulting role like this where you will work closely with various teams to evaluate and enhance application performance.


In this role, you will be responsible for developing and enhancing our performance testing capabilities, including designing and implementing performance test strategies, frameworks, and reporting modules. Key areas of this role include:

 

  • Design and implement a performance test strategy that can be scaled across our technology product portfolio, ensuring comprehensive and effective testing.
  • Adopt and customize performance test frameworks to suit the specific needs of the applications under test.
  • Develop a performance test reporting module to communicate application performance metrics clearly and effectively.
  • Partner with internal and external teams to create user profiles and workload models, enhancing the accuracy of performance tests.
  • Collaborate with application architects on capacity planning and modelling exercises to optimize system performance.
  • Lead Agile teams to integrate performance testing within sprints, ensuring performance considerations are part of the development process.
  • Train and upskill existing and new QA Engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and development in performance testing.

 

What you will bring

 

We are looking for a Senior Performance Test Engineer with broad experience in performance testing and a strong ability to communicate findings and recommendations.

 

To be successful in this role, you will:

 

  • Have significant experience in performance testing, including expertise with tools such as Apache JMeter, Gatling, and LoadRunner.
  • Demonstrate proven experience in building performance test frameworks and reporting dashboards.
  • Possess strong skills in performance engineering tasks, such as capacity planning and application performance management.
  • Have experience setting up performance testing environments in the cloud, preferably AWS.
  • Be able to influence and provide technical direction, with excellent communication skills to discuss outcomes and recommendations with stakeholders.

 

If you’re excited about leading the development of performance testing practices and making a tangible impact on system performance, apply today!

 

Find the better way

What gets us excited about working here? Helping people feel good about their money as one of Australia’s leading financial wellbeing organisations. From those starting out to those retiring. As your team, we’ll show up for you and together we will create financial wellbeing for every Australian. Because we know people who are confident about their financial future live better lives.

If this sounds like your kind of career, you sound like our kind of person. With us, you’ll do work that builds your technical know-how and challenges our entire industry to move forward. Along the way, you’ll be free to explore new ideas and technology, solve problems in a team, and independently to get great things done. Around here, we like to call it “putting our fingerprints on the future”.

People-inspired tech

Deep expertise combined with creativity can take on the trickiest of problems. Join our team of brilliant minds and mentors as we explore our way to innovation and apply technology in more human ways than ever.

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To Apply

Read more here about why you should join our team.

Applicants will be required to provide evidence of their eligibility to work in Australia, and at a minimum be required to undertake police and basic credit checks as a condition of employment.

 

Please note that applications from agencies will not be considered at this time.

 

We acknowledge and celebrate the richness that individual differences bring to our team. If you need assistance or an adjustment during the application process, please reach out and let us know.