Performance Test Engineer

About the role

DXC Luxoft is hiring a Performance Test Engineer in Sydney for a core banking migration program for a leading Australian bank. The role ensures the performance, scalability, reliability and stability of critical banking applications, batch processes and data warehouse workloads through end-to-end performance engineering and testing.

Key responsibilities

• Develop and maintain performance test strategies, plans and execution schedules.
• Design performance test scenarios and workload models aligned to business requirements.
• Create and manage performance test data for each testing cycle.
• Develop, execute and maintain performance test scripts using JMeter.
• Conduct performance, load, stress and endurance testing.
• Analyse results, identify bottlenecks and recommend optimisations.
• Prepare and present Test Summary Reports (TSRs).
• Integrate performance testing into Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines.
• Collaborate with development, infrastructure and project teams to resolve performance issues.
• Support testing of batch processing and data warehouse solutions, and take part in defect triage, root cause analysis and performance tuning.

Required profile

• 9+ years of hands-on experience in performance testing and performance engineering on large-scale enterprise applications.
• Proven experience integrating performance testing into Azure DevOps pipelines and CI/CD delivery.
• Experience with batch processing systems and data warehouse platforms.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills; experience in Agile, DevOps and continuous delivery environments.

Required skills

• Apache JMeter for performance test scripts.
• Test data creation, management and preparation.
• Workload modelling and scenario design.
• Bottleneck analysis and TSR reporting.
• Nice to have: Service Virtualisation tools such as Tricentis Tosca OSV, banking and payments experience, core banking migration exposure, cloud performance engineering and leading performance testing engagements.