Performance Tester

CompanyFederal Reserve Bank of Kansas City

When you join the Federal Reserve—the nation's central bank—you’ll play a key role, collaborating with leading tech professionals to strengthen and protect our economic, financial and payments systems. We dedicate more than $1 billion to technology each year to support the Federal Reserve and our economy, and we’re building a dynamic and diverse team for our future.
Bring your passion and expertise, and we’ll provide the opportunities that will challenge you and propel your growth—along with a wide range of benefits and perks that support your health, wealth, and life.
Federal Reserve Financial Services (FRFS) delivers a suite of payments services to financial institutions via FedLine® Solutions, Fedwire®, National Settlement Service (NSS), FedCash®, FedACH® (Automated Clearing House), Check Services, and the FedNow® Service. In 2020, we undertook a strategic effort to transform FRFS from a product and support office framework to a national, enterprise-focused organization. The enterprise structure integrated the prior retail, wholesale, cash, and customer relations product and support offices into a new organization, which was further joined by the FedNow team in early 2024. Our North Star strategy, with the new structure, is 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 evolved structure, we will meet the needs of the marketplace for new products and services more quickly, seek to provide a more robust and unified customer experience across our financial service offerings, and create new career growth opportunities for FRFS staff.

Key Activities:

• Carry out end-to-end performance testing, including requirement gathering, test planning, scripting, execution, analysis and result reporting/sharing with stakeholders.

• Evaluate system under test (SUT) communication protocol to determine scripting protocol.

• Have advanced knowledge of programming languages such as Python, JavaScript, Java, Visual Basic, Linux command languages, and other programming languages.

• Should work closely with product development & implementation, architecture, infrastructure and engineering groups for performance testing and application analysis initiatives to define success criteria and evaluation methodologies.

• Setting up/designing load test scenarios for various types of performance tests including load test, stress test, volume test, failover test, etc.

• Collaborate and coordinate with other dependent teams across the product line to ensure success of overall test run.

• Collaborate with security team & test engineers to integrate security requirements and testing into overall pipeline strategy

• Performs manual testing to validate vulnerabilities.

• Monitor server’s utilization during the test run.

• Participate in code reviews for performance test scenarios & create/maintain test data.

• Evaluate non-functional requirements to determine acceptance criteria.

• Participate 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 the performance tests to support the automatic deployment of software.

• Maintain performance test scenarios & test scripts

• Perform API performance testing and integrate into CI pipeline.

• Monitor system level statistics during performance test executions.

• Develop and submit performance test reports.

• Analyze performance test results.

• Gather system performance statistics from front-end and back-end.

• Correlate front-end and back-end system performance statistics to present comprehensive test reports.

• Support implementation and maintenance of performance testing tools.

• Participate in reviews with agile teams and product owners.

• Work collaboratively and creatively to resolve any testing problems, bottlenecks, or issues.

• Perform additional testing related tasks may be assigned.

• Have knowledge and experience with new and emerging performance testing technologies and techniques.

• Have experience in adapting those new and emerging technologies and techniques to meet the ever changing demands in software development

• Utilize CI integration tool to support continuous integration specifically related to performance and load testing.

• Modify performance testing scenarios to compliment builds executed in Jenkins and other CM and automated deployment tools used as directed.

• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• 10+ years’ experience in Performance testing, with a minimum of 3+ experience in a large sized project with minimal to none supervision.

• Bachelor’s degree in software engineering, computer science/technology, business administration, or a closely related field from an accredited college or university, or equivalent combination of directly related education and/or experience.

• Experience in developing Performance testing scripts for MQ, Java Cloud and AWS applications

• 4-6 years of experience in performance testing and strong knowledge on product performance testing concepts, methodologies and techniques.

• 4-6 years of experience in developing performance test scripts and execution using tools; like, LoadRunner, Performance Center or JMeter or any home-grown testing platform along with Java //Python or other languages.

• Must be able to run platform/application performance testing end-to-end from requirements, planning, scripting, load test executions and result analysis.

• Experience in planning and designing performance tests for load, stress, spike, scalability, and volume testing

• Must possess strong experience using and implementing best practice programs with respect to load generation, bottleneck analysis, usage of modeling tools and statistical analysis.

• Must have good experience using server monitoring tools like, Dynatrace, Splunk, etc.

• Proficient in analysis of performance test result to present to product team/Tech operations.

• Proficient in using Integrated Development Tools such as IntelliJ, Eclipse along with Source Control Systems such as Git or subversion

• Experience with analyzing and generating reports and metrics

• Knowledge and Application experience of advanced programming concepts (e.g. threads, exceptions and I/O, memory management) in Java technology stack required.

Additional Information:

Location(s):

• Hybrid – All FRB Locations

Screening Requirements:

This position has additional screening requirements due to the information accessed while performing the job. These additional screenings would be initiated at the time of offer acceptance and can take up to a couple of months to be completed. You can begin work before the screening is completed; however, continued employment is contingent on acceptable screening results. The areas screened may include education/employment verification, criminal history, credit history, and reference checks. 

Sponsorship: Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States without the need for visa sponsorship now or in the future.

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