Performance Testing Lead_Bangalore

Job Description Performance Testing Lead

Position: Performance Testing Lead

Experience: 5+ years

Domain: Banking / Financial Services (preferred)

Location: Bangalore

Employment Type: Full-time

Role Overview

We are seeking a Performance Testing Lead with strong technical expertise in designing, executing, and analyzing performance tests for complex enterprise and banking applications. The role requires hands-on skills in scripting, workload modeling, monitoring, and bottleneck analysis, while also guiding a small team of testers in delivering high-quality performance testing outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Own and execute end-to-end performance testing activities requirements analysis, test design, scripting, execution, monitoring, and reporting.


• Develop and maintain performance test scripts for core and digital banking applications (e.g., Finacle, FLEXCUBE, OBDX, T24, TCS BaNCS, Internet/Mobile Banking, Payments).


• Define and implement workload models that mimic real-world user behavior and transaction volumes.


• Conduct various types of performance tests load, stress, spike, endurance/soak, and scalability.


• Utilize performance test tools such as JMeter, LoadRunner, or Neoload to execute tests.


• Integrate performance tests into CI/CD pipelines for continuous performance validation.


• Use monitoring and diagnostics tools (Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Grafana, InfluxDB, Splunk, ELK) to capture application and infrastructure performance.


• Perform root cause analysis of bottlenecks across application, database, middleware, and network layers.


• Collaborate with developers, DBAs, architects, and system administrators to recommend tuning and optimization.


• Prepare and present detailed technical reports on performance test findings and recommendations.


• Mentor junior performance testers and provide technical guidance.

Required Skills & Experience

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in Performance Testing & Engineering.


• Strong expertise in performance testing tools: JMeter (mandatory) and at least one of LoadRunner/Neoload.


• Hands-on scripting and scenario design for banking applications (core banking, payments, internet/mobile banking, OBDX, T24, Finacle, FLEXCUBE, TCS BaNCS preferred).


• Solid knowledge of protocols (HTTP/HTTPS, Web Services, REST, SOAP, JDBC, MQ, Kafka).


• Strong experience with monitoring & profiling tools: Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Grafana, InfluxDB, Splunk, etc.


• Good understanding of application stacks: Java/J2EE, WebLogic, WebSphere, Tomcat, Microservices, Kubernetes, Docker.


• Strong knowledge of databases (Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, Exadata) and SQL query tuning for performance analysis.


• Familiarity with performance test strategies: workload modeling, Poisson distribution, SLA definition, baseline establishment.


• Ability to analyze CPU, memory, GC logs, thread dumps, DB execution plans to identify bottlenecks.


• Exposure to cloud-based environments (AWS, Azure, GCP) preferred.

Preferred Qualifications

• Tool certifications (JMeter, LoadRunner, Neoload).


• Cloud certifications (AWS/Azure/GCP).


• Exposure to performance engineering concepts (capacity planning, scalability assessments).


• Prior experience in BFSI domain applications is an added advantage.