Performance Test Engineer || Onsite in Dallas, TX || W2

Job Title: Performance Test Engineer / Performance Tester
Location: Dallas, TX
Experience: 8+ Years

Job Summary:
We are seeking a highly skilled Performance Tester with strong expertise in Apache JMeter and LoadRunner to support mission-critical applications for capital markets and post-trade financial systems at DTCC. The ideal candidate should have hands-on experience in performance engineering, scalability testing, latency optimization, and high-volume transaction processing systems within the banking or financial services domain.

The candidate will be responsible for validating the performance, reliability, scalability, and resiliency of enterprise applications handling high transaction volumes, market data, settlements, clearing, trade lifecycle, and financial messaging systems.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and execute performance, load, stress, endurance, volume, and scalability testing for enterprise financial applications.
• Build and maintain reusable test scripts using:
• Apache JMeter
• Micro Focus LoadRunner (VuGen, Controller, Analysis)
• Validate system performance for high-volume trade processing, settlement systems, clearing platforms, and post-trade applications.
• Perform performance testing on REST/SOAP-based financial systems'' APIs and microservices.
• Analyze system bottlenecks related to:
• Application performance
• Database latency
• Middleware
• Message queues
• Network delays

• Simulate real-world workloads for high concurrent users and financial transaction volumes.
• Conduct performance testing across distributed systems and cloud/on-prem hybrid environments.
• Work closely with developers, architects, infrastructure, DevOps, and business teams to resolve performance issues.
• Perform capacity planning and benchmark analysis for mission-critical systems.
• Define and validate Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs), SLAs, SLIs, and SLOs.
• Prepare detailed performance reports, bottleneck analysis, and tuning recommendations.

Required Skills:
Performance Testing:

• Strong expertise in:
• Apache JMeter
• LoadRunner
• LoadRunner Enterprise (LRE) – preferred

Monitoring & Performance Analysis Tools:

• Dynatrace
• AppDynamics
• Splunk
• Grafana
• New Relic
• Prometheus
• Kibana

Capital Markets / Financial Domain Knowledge:
Strong understanding of:

• Trade Lifecycle
• Clearing & Settlement
• Post-Trade Processing
• Capital Markets
• Financial Messaging
• FIX Protocol
• SWIFT Messaging
• Market Data Processing
• High-Volume Transaction Systems

Middleware / Messaging:
Experience with:

• Kafka
• IBM MQ
• RabbitMQ
• Message Queues

API & Services:

• REST APIs
• SOAP Web Services
• Microservices Architecture
• Web Services Performance Testing

Database Skills:

• Oracle
• SQL Server
• PostgreSQL
• MySQL
• Strong SQL query optimization knowledge

CI/CD & DevOps:

• Jenkins
• Git
• Maven
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• CI/CD integration for automated performance testing

Programming / Scripting:

• Java
• Python
• Groovy
• Shell Scripting

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 8+ years of experience in Performance Testing / Performance Engineering.
• Strong hands-on experience in JMeter and LoadRunner scripting.
• Experience working in Banking, Capital Markets, Investment Banking, or Financial Services domain.
• Strong understanding of high-volume distributed transaction systems.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Prior experience working with DTCC, Capital Markets, Clearing & Settlement systems.
• Knowledge of financial regulations and compliance systems.
• Experience with cloud performance testing (AWS/Azure).
• Exposure to Chaos Engineering, resiliency testing, and observability platforms.

Daily Real-Time Project Activities:

• Analyze business and NFR requirements for performance testing.
• Create workload models based on production trade volume patterns.
• Develop JMeter/LoadRunner scripts for APIs and web applications.
• Execute large-scale performance tests simulating market spikes and transaction bursts.
• Monitor CPU, memory, threads, database performance, and message queues.
• Investigate latency and bottlenecks impacting settlement/trade systems.
• Collaborate with development teams for performance tuning.
• Present performance reports and recommendations to stakeholders.
• Participate in production readiness and release validations.

Nice to Have:

• Experience in Capital Markets Trading Platforms
• Knowledge of Calypso, Murex, FIX, SWIFT, or Trade Settlement Systems
• Experience with OpenShift or Kubernetes-based performance testing
• Understanding of SRE and observability practices