Senior Non‑Functional Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Work in SAFe teams

• Gather and review Non‑Functional Requirements with relevant stakeholders

• Create release test strategy and test plans based on non‑functional requirements and risk analysis; drive non‑functional testing for releases

• Create and review performance test cases and test scripts, including peer review

• Design and execute performance, reliability, and resilience tests

• Identify performance issues and drive tuning activities with relevant technology experts

• Perform defect prioritization and drive defect fixing with relevant teams

• Collaborate with external teams on test planning, execution, and change implementation

• Create non‑functional test reports and present results to stakeholders

• Support production monitoring setup by verifying monitoring in lower environments

• Review and prioritize non‑functional testing activities, track deliverables, and provide status reporting

• Review existing practices and actively drive improvements

• Incorporate non‑functional testing activities into CI/CD

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related discipline (or equivalent work experience)

• 7+ years of experience in testing, including 5+ years in non‑functional testing

• Strong ability to manage and execute non‑functional testing in complex, large‑scale programs

• Ability to work independently and within distributed teams

• Experience in defining and rolling out processes and standards

• Strong experience in performance testing and engineering using tools such as LoadRunner, JMeter, Gatling or similar

• Experience working in Agile teams, with knowledge of SAFe methodology

• Experience with CI/CD practices

• Experience with Jira (mandatory); knowledge of qTest is an advantage

• Ability to write and execute SQL queries and analyze AWR reports

• Experience with tools such as Subversion, Jenkins, Maven, Git

• Familiarity with web services technologies (XML, SOAP, JSON)

• Fluent English, spoken and written

• Open‑minded with the ability to set direction and goals for the team

• Strong skills in planning, prioritization, and structured delivery, with a focus on quality and timeliness

• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across all organizational levels

• Experience working in complex environments with multiple streams, across business units and with diverse teams and vendors

• Proactive, self‑driven and solution‑oriented mindset, comfortable working in evolving and changing environments

• Experience in non‑functional testing and analysis (performance and/or reliability), including troubleshooting and optimization of enterprise solutions

• Experience working with distributed delivery teams

Nice to have:

• Experience in development

• Experience in banking domain, preferably payments

• Experience working with Linux/Unix and cloud environments

• Experience with mainframe systems