Senior Performance Test Engineer

As a leading financial services and healthcare technology company based on revenue, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut, and has 27,000+ employees in 35 countries. Some 20,000 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: Australia [Preferably Melbourne/Sydney] || Hybrid

Job Type: Full Time || Permanent

Job Description

Get To Know Us:

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 that this role can be based in Parramatta, Sydney, Melbourne, Wollongong or Hobart

What You Will Get to Do:           

In this role, you will be responsible for developing and enhancing our performance testing capabilities, including designing, and implementing performance test strategies, frameworks, and reporting modules. Key areas of this role include:

• Design and implement a performance test strategy that can be scaled across our technology product portfolio, ensuring comprehensive and effective testing.
• Adopt and customize performance test frameworks to suit the specific needs of the applications under test.
• Develop a performance test reporting module to communicate application performance metrics clearly and effectively.
• Partner with internal and external teams to create user profiles and workload models, enhancing the accuracy of performance tests.
• Collaborate with application architects on capacity planning and modelling exercises to optimize system performance.
• Lead Agile teams to integrate performance testing within sprints, ensuring performance considerations are part of the development process.
• Train and upskill existing and new QA Engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and development in performance testing.

What You Will Bring:

We are looking for a Senior Performance Test Engineer with broad experience in performance testing and a strong ability to communicate findings and recommendations.

To be successful in this role, you will:

• Have significant experience in performance testing, including expertise with tools such as Apache JMeter, Gatling, and LoadRunner.
• Demonstrate proven experience in building performance test frameworks and reporting dashboards.
• Possess strong skills in performance engineering tasks, such as capacity planning and application performance management.
• Have experience setting up performance testing environments in the cloud, preferably AWS.
• Be able to influence and provide technical direction, with excellent communication skills to discuss outcomes and recommendations with stakeholders.

If you’re excited about leading the development of performance testing practices and making a tangible impact on system performance, apply today!

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.

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.