5+ years' experience in application performance testing and performance engineering.
Proficient in MSSQL and C# for code reviews during testing.
Proven skills with load testing tools eg. Tosca Flood, Selenium, jMeter, Loadrunner or similar is essential.
Experience designing and/or implementing automated software testing, deployment and performance analysis systems.
Have in-depth of knowledge in MSSQL, and ideally will have a programming background prior to working in a Performance analysis role.
Experience in implementing performance monitoring tools.
Knowledge of failure mode analysis and efficiency analysis in complex distributed systems.
Excellent ability to execute performance tests and analyze results.
Strong understanding of hardware load balancers, network optimization, or other related and demonstrable TCP-level experience within the remit of performance improvements to transaction processing systems is an advantage.
Ideally have experience with large distributed systems such as large scale distributed database systems, geographically dispersed transaction processing, or horizontally scaled request processing systems.
Ability to adapt and improve systems and processes, to accommodate rapid and increasing growth in systems and traffic.
A natural at building adaptable, reusable test plans.
Comfortable with performing code reviews, or code profiling to assure code is adhering to best performance practices; Assist with performance-related problem resolutions.
Analytical, driven and interested in improving system efficiency.
A passion to work in the Payments space.