Senior Performance Test Engineer

SS&C is a leading provider of mission-critical, AI-powered technology and services empowering financial services and healthcare organizations to work smarter, faster, and securely. Founded in 1986, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut, and has offices worldwide. More than 23,000 financial services and healthcare organizations, from the world's largest companies to small and mid-market firms, rely on SS&C for expertise, scale, and technology.

Job Description

Title: Senior Performance Test Engineer

Location: Melbourne/Sydney, Australia || Hybrid

Job Type: Full Time || Permanent

Job Description

Get To Know Us:

SS&C is a leading provider of mission-critical, AI-powered technology and services empowering financial services and healthcare organizations to work smarter, faster, and securely. Founded in 1986, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut, and has offices worldwide. More than 23,000 financial services and healthcare organizations, from the world's largest companies to small and mid-market firms, rely on SS&C for expertise, scale, and technology.

SS&C GIDS provides information processing and computer software services and products.  The Company’s operating segments include financial markets, customer management, professional services, and output solutions.  SS&C GIDS serves the alternative investments, asset and wealth management, banking and lending, insurance, and real estate industries.

Why You Will Love It Here!

• Flexibility: Hybrid Work Model
• Your Future: Income Protection Insurance & Salary Continuance
• Work/Life Balance: Generous Bereavement & Compassionate leave.
• Your Wellbeing: Private Health Insurance discount, Primary & Secondary Paid Parental leave, Death & TPD Insurance
• Diversity & Inclusion: Committed to Welcoming, Celebrating and Thriving on Diversity
• Training: Hands-On, Team-Customized, including SS&C University
• Extra Perks: Discounts on fitness clubs, travel and more!

Please note: Candidate must be an Australian citizen or permanent resident. This role is based in Melbourne/Sydney.

What You Will Get to Do:           

We are experiencing rapidly growing demand for performance testing, driven by new, complex migration programs and the expansion of our technology platform. We are seeking a Senior Performance Test Engineer with 10+ years proven experience in complex, high volume enterprise systems and strong LoadRunner background to join our team with a shared passion for performance excellence. The role covers performance testing of our expanding .NET-based solution, combining business critical batch and online systems with new microservices and cloud technologies.

Key responsibilities of this role include:

• Self-managed full performance test life cycle: define test requirements and scope, planning/schedule, test scenario and build, execution, monitor, analysis and reporting of accurate results and status to target audiences within timeframes.
• Collaboration with delivery teams to resolve performance defects.
• Delivery of all test artefacts including Test Plan, Progress Reports, and Test Summary Reports to certify Releases to Production. 
• Active participation in performance risk identification (business and technical impact) and mitigation actions, establishment of performance NFRs and benchmarks.
• Develop a deep understanding of our products, services, and technology to effectively communicate and bridge the performance gap between business and technical teams.
• Drive and define performance testing strategy, process, and tools for efficient and effective Program delivery, and to align with industry standards.
• Build and optimize automated performance test pipelines to reduce cost & increase coverage.
• Ownership of test environment and capacity planning.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a cross functional, multi-region team located in AU and India. Flexibility to attend meetings/workshop at reasonable overlapped hours.

What You Will Bring:

Technical Skills

• 10+ years in performance test engineering role which includes microservices and cloud-based technology.
• Preferred experience within superannuation, wealth management or other financial services (e.g. the Big 4 banks) domain.
• Mastery of Performance Test Tools: 
  • Knowledge of scripting languages and the ability to write code for test automation. Mandatory: Microfocus LoadRunner HTTP Protocol - C coding + manual correlation. Desirable: JMeter, Gatling, K6 etc. Database languages: MS SQL, Postgres
  • Monitoring and Analysis: Mandatory: LoadRunner Analysis. Desirable: Microsoft perfmon, Grafana
• Strong understanding and hands-on technology experience with the following:
  • Operating System: Windows Server, Database: SQL Server 2019+, Application Development Platforms: .NET.
  • Cloud-based: Microservices: architecture, principles, and best practices. Kubernetes: Container orchestration and management, including deployment strategies, scaling, and resource management.
• Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD): Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and how to integrate performance testing into the CI/CD process.
• Proficiency with Confluence and JIRA
• Proficiency with version control GIT
• Experience working in Agile or Scrum development environments where rapid iterations and continuous improvement are practiced.
• Education and qualification: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related discipline.

Personal Attributes

• Strong analytical, statistical, and presentational skills and critical thinking to identify and solve complex problems.
• Exceptional attention to detail. Understanding task objectives and expected outcomes.
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build relationships with both technical and non-technical audiences at all organizational levels.
• Clear, concise, consistent written and verbal communication, demonstrating understanding of target audiences and stakeholders.
• Strategic and critical thinker to anticipate risks, resolve complex blockers, drive effective delivery.
  •  
• Maintain awareness of external activities/schedules, factors, events, etc. that may influence or impact deliverables. Manage impact and stakeholder expectations on deliverables.
• Ability to work independently and in team environments.
• Adaptability and willingness to learn new technologies.

If you’re ready to bring your expertise to a collaborative team and lead impactful QA initiatives, we’d love to hear from you!

We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds to enable us to bring diverse perspectives to our thinking and conversation. It's important to us that we strive to have a workforce that is diverse in the widest sense.

Thank you for your interest in SS&C! If applicable, to further explore this opportunity, please apply directly with us through our Careers page on our corporate website @ www.ssctech.com/careers

Unless explicitly requested or approached by SS&C Technologies, Inc. or any of its affiliated companies, the company will not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services.

Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

SS&C Technologies is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any applicant for employment or employee on the basis of race, color, religious creed, gender, age, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other classification protected by applicable discrimination laws.