Adv Engineer QE II

As one of the world’s leading independent global investment firms, Invesco is dedicated to rethinking possibilities for our clients. By delivering the combined power of our distinctive investment management capabilities, we provide a wide range of investment strategies and vehicles to our clients around the world. If you're looking for challenging work, intelligent colleagues, and exposure across a global footprint, come explore your potential at Invesco.

Key Responsibilities:

Performance Engineering Leadership

• Provide technical leadership in performance testing, workload modeling, performance tuning, and non-functional requirement validation.
• Lead hands-on performance engagements including scenario creation, script development, execution, and analysis.
• Apply strong expertise in TrueClient protocol, ensuring accurate browser-based performance validation.
• Utilize experience with Oracle NCA, Citrix, RDP, and SAP Web protocols for complex enterprise systems.
• Drive performance baselining, workload modeling, and shift-left performance practices across teams.
• Contribute to performance engineering standards, frameworks, and best practices.

Performance Strategy, Execution & Governance

• Execute a full range of non-functional tests including benchmark, load, stress, endurance, and scalability tests.
• Monitor application logs, server telemetry, and system behaviors to identify bottlenecks and anomalies.
• Handle technical issues across environments; coordinate with Development, Infrastructure, and cross-functional teams for timely resolution.
• Publish performance test results, reports, and dashboards; obtain approvals and sign-offs from stakeholders.
• Provide detailed defect documentation and manage issues through the full lifecycle using established bug workflows.
• Communicate test progress, risks, issues, and results to project managers and technical leadership throughout the Agile lifecycle.
• Ensure performance testing aligns with business requirements, system goals, and end-user expectations.

Performance Tooling, Automation & Technical Excellence

• Demonstrate strong hands-on expertise with
  NeoLoad, LoadRunner Professional/Enterprise/Cloud, and TrueClient protocol.
• Experience with specialized protocols including Oracle NCA, Citrix, RDP, and SAP Web.
• Exposure to monitoring and observability tools such as New Relic, Dynatrace, and AppDynamics.
• Analyze CPU utilization, memory usage, network utilization, GC behavior, DB parameters, and system reports to validate application performance.
• Develop and optimize performance scripts, automated performance tests, and CI/CD-integrated performance gates.
• Knowledge of JMeter and NeoLoad is an added advantage.

Cross-Team Collaboration & Technical Influence

• Partner with developers, architects, DevOps/SRE, and product teams to incorporate performance considerations early in the lifecycle.
• Facilitate performance reviews, bottleneck analysis, and resolution planning across functional teams.
• Understand data flows, UI workflows, and backend processing to ensure end-to-end performance validation.
• Work effectively in UK shifts and support North America shifts as needed.

Additional Functional Testing & Quality Skills

• Strong knowledge of functional automation using open-source tools such as:
  • Selenium with Java
  • Rest Assured
  • Postman
  • Continuous deployment toolchains
• Participate in framework maintenance and contribute to test automation practices where needed.
• Track daily metrics, test coverage, execution status, and defect trends to maintain transparency and predictability.
• Promote teamwork, collaboration, and readiness for process or tooling changes.

Required Qualifications:

Experience

• 4+ years of experience in Performance Engineering, Quality Engineering, or Software Testing.
• Extensive hands-on experience with
  NeoLoad, LoadRunner Professional/Enterprise/Cloud, and TrueClient protocol.
• Experience with enterprise protocols: Oracle NCA, Citrix, RDP, and SAP Web.

Technical Skills

• Strong understanding of:
  • Performance engineering principles
  • Workload and scenario design
  • Browser-level and protocol-level performance testing
  • Distributed systems and cloud-native architectures
• Proficiency with monitoring tools: New Relic, Dynatrace, AppDynamics.
• Ability to analyze system resource utilization, GC logs, DB metrics, and network behaviors.
• Familiarity with version control, CI/CD pipelines, observability platforms, and defect tracking systems.
• Good to have: knowledge of LoadRunner Enterprise (LRE) 2021.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience implementing enterprise performance engineering frameworks.
• Knowledge in JMeter or additional open-source performance tools.
• Experience in cloud modernization or large-scale distributed Agile environments.
• Experience executing or contributing to non-functional testing transformations.

What Success Looks Like

• Performance risks are identified early and addressed proactively.
• Applications meet or exceed expected performance benchmarks and SLAs.
• Performance testing becomes standardized, scalable, and integrated with CI/CD.
• Systems exhibit strong scalability, reliability, and responsiveness under real-world load.
• Performance quality practices become consistent, measurable, and aligned with business and technical objectives.

At Invesco, our workplace model supports our culture and meets the needs of our clients while providing flexibility our employees value. As a full-time employee, compliance with the workplace policy means working with your direct manager to create a schedule where you will work in your designated office at least three days a week, with two days working outside an Invesco office. 

Why Invesco

In Invesco, we act with integrity and do meaningful work to create impact for our stakeholders. We believe our culture is stronger when we all feel we belong, and we respect each other’s identities, lives, health, and well-being. We come together to create better solutions for our clients, our business and each other by building on different voices and perspectives. We nurture and encourage each other to ensure our meaningful growth, both personally and professionally. 

We believe in diverse, inclusive, and supportive workplace where everyone feels equally valued, and this starts at the top with our senior leaders having diversity and inclusion goals. Our global focus on diversity and inclusion has grown exponentially and we encourage connection and community through our many employee-led Business Resource Groups (BRGs).  

What’s in it for you? 

As an organization we support personal needs, diverse backgrounds and provide internal networks, as well as opportunities to get involved in the community and in the world. 

Our benefit policy includes but not limited to: 

• Competitive Compensation 
• Flexible, Hybrid Work 
• 30 days’ Annual Leave + Public Holidays 
• Life Insurance 
• Retirement Planning 
• Group Personal Accident Insurance 
• Medical Insurance for Employee and Family 
• Annual Health Check-up 
• 26 weeks Maternity Leave 
• Paternal Leave 
• Adoption Leave 
• Near site Childcare Facility 
• Employee Assistance Program 
• Study Support 
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan 
• ESG Commitments and Goals 
• Business Resource Groups 
• Career Development Programs 
• Mentoring Programs 
• Invesco Cares 
• Dress for your Day 

In Invesco, we offer development opportunities that help you thrive as a lifelong learner in a constantly evolving business environment and ensure your constant growth. Our AI enabled learning platform delivers curated content based on your role and interest. We ensure our manager and leaders also have many opportunities to advance their skills and competencies that becomes pivotal in their continuous pursuit of performance excellence. 

To know more about us 

About Invesco: https://www.invesco.com/corporate/en/home.html 

About our Culture: https://www.invesco.com/corporate/en/about-us/our-culture.html 

About our D&I policy: https://www.invesco.com/corporate/en/our-commitments/diversity-and-inclusion.html 

About our CR program: https://www.invesco.com/corporate/en/our-commitments/corporate-responsibility.html 

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