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Performance Tester - Lead @ Iris Software

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Iris Software  Performance Tester - Lead

Job Description

Role Overview
  • We are looking for a senior Performance Testing / Performance Engineering professional to build and drive performance testing capabilities.
  • The role involves working closely with business and technology stakeholders to identify business-critical performance requirements, define non-functional requirements (NFRs), select appropriate tools, and establish end-to-end performance engineering practices for BFSI applications.
  • This is a high-ownership role requiring both technical depth and consultative mindset.

Key Responsibilities

  • Work with business stakeholders, architects, and product owners to identify business-critical user journeys and performance expectations.
  • Define and document Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs) including response time, throughput, scalability, availability, and resilience.
  • Design the performance testing strategy, including scope, approach, tools, environments, and success criteria.
  • Evaluate, recommend, and implement performance testing tools based on application architecture and business needs (e.g., JMeter, LoadRunner, NeoLoad).
  • Build reusable performance test frameworks, scripts, and test assets.
  • Execute various types of performance tests:o Load, Stress, Endurance, Spike, Scalability, and Volume testing.
  • Perform end-to-end performance analysis across application, middleware, database, and infrastructure layers.
  • Identify system bottlenecks and collaborate with development, DB, infra, and architecture teams to recommend optimizations.
  • Define performance baselines, SLAs, and release performance gates.
  • Establish performance reporting, dashboards, and governance processes.
  • Provide performance sign-off recommendations for releases.

Mandatory Skills

  • Strong hands-on experience with performance testing tools: JMeter, LoadRunner, NeoLoad
  • Proven ability to design performance testing frameworks.
  • Excellent understanding of performance engineering concepts and best practices.
  • Strong analytical skills for result interpretation and bottleneck identification.

Domain Experience

  • Mandatory experience in BFSI domain (Banking, Financial Services, Payments, Trading, Insurance, etc.).
  • Strong understanding of BFSI system characteristics such as:o High transaction volumeso Peak load scenarios (market open, batch cycles, settlements, regulatory events)
  • Regulatory compliance and reliability requirements

Technical Skills (Good to Have)

  • Strong SQL / PL-SQL for database performance validation.
  • Linux/Unix system monitoring and troubleshooting.
  • Experience with APM & monitoring tools (Dynatrace, AppDynamics, New Relic, Grafana etc.).
  • Experience with Log Analysis using tools like Splunk, DataDog
  • Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and integrating performance tests into DevOps workflows.
  • Exposure to performance testing in cloud or hybrid environments (AWS/Azure).
  • Familiarity with capacity planning and workload modeling.

Soft Skills & Expectations

  • Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
  • Ability to translate business expectations into measurable performance requirements.
  • Experience working with global teams and UK shift timings.
  • Proactive mindset with ownership-driven delivery.
Mandatory Competencies
  • Performance Tools - Performance Tools - Jmeter
  • QA/QE - QA Automation - Performance testing (Jmeter, Loadrunner, NeoLoad etc)
  • Beh - Communication
  • QA/QE - QA Automation - Basic Build, Deployment and CI/CD
  • FS Domain - Financial Services - Financial Services.

Job Classification

Industry: IT Services & Consulting
Functional Area / Department: Engineering - Software & QA
Role Category: Quality Assurance and Testing
Role: Test Architect
Employement Type: Full time

Contact Details:

Company: Iris Software
Location(s): Noida, Gurugram

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Keyskills:   jmeter insurance trading bfsi applications performance testing regulatory compliance sql banking qa automation grafana stakeholder management devops linux splunk aws log analysis azure middleware

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