Job Description

Hello future Snr Performance Test Engineer,

Welcome to FNB, the home of the #changeables. We design for the shapeshifters and deliver products and services that make us incredibly proud of people that make it happen.

As part of our Core Banking Team, you will be surrounded by unique talents, diverse minds, and an adaptable environment that lives up to the promise of staying curious. Now’s the time to imagine your potential in a team where experts come together and ignite effective change.

Performance Testing is a software testing process used for testing the speed, response time, stability,  reliability, scalability and resource usage of a software application under particular workload.

The main purpose of performance testing is to establish adherence to Non Functional Requirements and identify the  performance bottlenecks in the software application. 

The focus of Performance Testing is checking a software program's
Speed - Determines whether the application responds quickly
Scalability - Determines maximum user load the software application can handle.
Stability - Determines if the application is stable under varying loads
This is in contrast to Performance Engineering which focuses on eliminating bottlenecks identified during 
testing with the recommendation and implementation of performant code constructs, infrastructure 
enhancements and optimizations/tuning of systems and processes

Job Description:

• Work with application stakeholders and define non-functional requirements covering performance, 
• scalability, availability, resiliency and reliability including Service Level Objectives and Agreements.
• Develop strategies to address the Non-functional requirements throughout Software or Product 
• Development Life Cycle.
• Work with architecture and development teams in creating performant (functioning well or as 
• expected), highly resilient and reliable architecture and design
• Work with architecture and development teams in implementing resiliency constructs, develop 
• optimal code
• Work with QA to validate and certify if performance, scalability, availability, resilience and reliability 
• requirements are met
• Develop tools and utilities to automate manual operational tasks in production
• Responsible for incidents related to Non- Functionals, updating standard operating procedure  to 
• capture right set of metrics/logs for RCA, Root cause analysis of the incidents, Solutions 
• identification and ensure permanent closure of the incidents.
• Analyze production utilization and incidents patterns, identify improvement areas and implement 
• automation to improve productivity, avoid manual tasks and recurring incidents.
• Strong communication and presentation skills with emphasis on executive communication
• Ability to learn and apply new technologies quickly. Eagerness to learn new things
• Highly adaptable with the ability to move into a new project while setting up a performance strategy 
• and approach and executing that plan to the satisfaction of all project/application stakeholders
• Experience 
• Knowledge and Experience on Java Programming language with at least 2 years demonstrable 
• experience. Candidate to be able to do and pass FNB Java assessment
• 2+ years of experience on Java/J2EE applications with one of web servers (Apache Tomcat, IBM 
• HTTP Server, Apache HTTP Server), one of the application servers (WebSphere/Weblogic/JBoss), 
• one of the databases (Oracle/SQLServer/DB2/Postgres)

Senior: 5+ years experience with a focus on performance engineering and being the performance lead on large scale corporate applications
Required Industry experience: Banking Industry experience preferred with a focus on Java and Cobol technologies. Alternatively, experience in working on projects for large corporates in the retail, automotive, gaming, insurance, etc., industries.

CBP and CJP has a strong focus on the below core technology stacks:

• Mainframe and IMS
• Java
• Spring and Springboot
• JMS
• Tibco MS
• Active MQ
• IBM MQ
• Apache Kafka 
• Postgres, MySQL, Oracle databases
• Kubernetes Clusters
• AWS + Azure Cloud Solutions

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Job Details

Take note that applications will not be accepted on the below date and onwards, kindly submit applications ahead of the closing date indicated below.

All appointments will be made in line with FirstRand Group’s Employment Equity plan. The Bank supports the recruitment and advancement of individuals with disabilities. In order for us to fulfill this purpose, candidates can disclose their disability information on a voluntary basis. The Bank will keep this information confidential unless we are required by law to disclose this information to other parties.