Sr Performance Engineer - AVP

Citi's Banking and International (BIC) comprises of diverse, talented professionals located globally. Citi's Investment and Corporate Banking (IBCB) is one of the divisions within BIC that provides comprehensive relationship coverage along with a full suite of products and services.

Our mission as a business focused technology organization is to provide best-in-class products and services to our global clients. IBCB technology is focused on building a cross-functional team of talented individuals and creating a unique platform to deliver products that will disrupt the industry through technical innovation and creativity. 

IBCB Quality Engineering function is looking for an experienced Performance Engineer who can run & automate aspects of non-functional tests with focus on environment stability with both direct output and influence in a federated model (squad/ agile teams)

We are looking for an PE who -

• Works collaboratively across product lines and department boundaries to enable performance engineering and shift left nonfunctional testing through automated load, stress & soak testing.
• Understands peak load scenarios and drives test automation with auto scale and detailed reporting on the same.
• Ability to analyze outputs to provide optimal time bound assessment window to couple with CI CD pipelines and shift left most repetitive tasks.
• Understands microservice architectures and provide optimal key measures at correct service levels.
• Has the ability to provide a detailed report on all test cycles with detailed prognosis and provide recommendations by collaborating across functions like engineering, architecture DevOps.
• Aide and help bring in Observability and SRE foundations in close collaboration with functions leading these initiatives.

Here is what you bring -

• You have 10-12 years of relevant experience with proficiency in DevOps and APM performance engineering tools like LoadUI, LoadRunner & APM tools AppDynamics, New Relic, Splunk or plain ELK Stack
• Basic awareness of one or more of the following: Java with JMeter, .NET, PHP, Node.js, Python, XML
• Experience on any containerized technology (Docker, Kubernetes, Openshift)
• Knowledge of web-application design, web services, and common service frameworks
• Advanced knowledge of Windows or Linux
• Experience troubleshooting and solving software performance related issues

On a typical day here is what you could do -

• Review middleware, frontend & data needs and provide benchmarking services for new components and point out bottlenecks on release versions
• Create health rules, alerts, and policies
• Import and customize dashboards templates for tech leadership and management review
• Explore, test, and configure not just technical flows but actual business transaction and provide deep insights
• Help in troubleshooting performance issues using user journeys, usage tracking and heat maps, snapshots, metrics, diagnostics provided by APM tools.
• Drive and promote quality culture within and outside QE
• Hiring, Team building and able to attract right talent to be build resilient team.
• Demonstrate BCMA QE as model team to adoption of QE across other areas of the business unit

Education:

• Bachelor’s/University degree or equivalent experience

Why choose Citi:

• Over 200 years in business with a great team of creative, visionary and entrepreneurial thinkers.
• Tremendous opportunities to advance, open to everyone across all levels. Learn and grow simultaneously!
• We offer a unique journey of personal and professional development, accomplishment and satisfaction.
• We value intelligence and a global mindset. There is a strong culture of empowerment here – we embrace diversity.
• We do our best to be flexible and may differ depending on the business or area.
• Citi India supports would be and returning mothers with various childcare benefits.
• Citi offers a robust training program. We continually reevaluate our training model to ensure that we are always offering the most relevant and best in class training.
• At Citi, we value internal mobility. We want you to build a long-term career with us, so you can expect opportunities to move around the organization.