Performance Tester - Assistant Vice President

Position Overview

Citi Treasury and Trade Solutions (TTS) provides services across the globe covering 96 markets and transacting in 144 currencies. Recognized by Global Finance as one of the World's Best Financial Innovation Labs, TTS relies on robust performance engineering to establish service level agreements and deliver excellent user experiences.

The Non-Functional Testing (NFT) group supports 100+ applications across multiple lines of business within the TTS Cash Management group. This senior role demands SME-level expertise to own performance testing solutions for complex, distributed payment architectures.

The TTS Cash NFT team is looking for an  IT Quality Senior Analyst – C12 (AVP - Performance Testing & Engineering) who will take ownership of more than 2 application performance testing solutions and play an SME role to engage with Development, Architecture, and Business teams to gather requirements and design the performance testing approach to certify application changes before production deployments.

This role requires close collaboration with the Global NFT team and is expected to lead a team alongside the NFT Practice Manager on a need basis. The candidate should have strong knowledge to lead Non-Functional Testing (Performance Testing & Engineering) for applications with complex architecture and should have exposure in monitoring, profiling, and analyzing with industry-standard tools.

Primary Skills

Performance Testing & Engineering

Tools & Technology Stackol / Technology

CategoryPurpose

LoadRunner Enterprise (MF Performance Center)

Load Testing

Web, Web Services (REST/Microservices), MQ (Java), Database

AppDynamics

APM / Profiling

Full-stack application profiling, transaction tracing, bottleneck identification

Kibana & ELK Stack

Log Analysis

Log aggregation, correlation, and visualization during test runs

BMC TrueSight

Monitoring

Infrastructure and system health monitoring

SQL (Oracle, MS SQL, PostgreSQL)

Database

Query optimization, AWR analysis

MongoDB

NoSQL Database

NoSQL performance testing, and data management

ECS (Elastic Container Service)/AWS (Cloud)

Container Orchestration

Containerized application performance testing

Apache Kafka

Messaging / Streaming

Performance testing of event-driven and streaming architectures

IBM MQ

Message Queue

MQ-based load testing, throughput validation, and queue performance analysis

C Programming

Programming

Low-level scripting, system-level performance analysis, and driver development

Java

Programming

Test script development, and framework automation

Key Responsibilities

This role is for a IT Quality Senior Analyst – C12 (AVP - Performance Testing & Engineering) and is expected to have SME-level knowledge to drive non-functional testing solutions for applications with complex architecture, middleware applications, along with service virtualization and data management.

Performance Engineering & Testing

• Lead end-to-end impact assessments, testing approach design, planning, execution, application profiling, metrics analysis, reporting, and risk management for assigned projects and applications.

• Implement and execute a performance test framework for non-functional testing covering load, volume, stress, capacity, and scalability testing to validate business non-functional requirements.

• Assess and design standalone component or end-to-end testing approaches connecting multiple components in complex payments flows.

• Profile application performance end-to-end and identify application and hardware/OS-level bottlenecks using AppDynamics and other monitoring tools.

• Perform AWR analysis for Oracle database performance tuning and provide recommendations.

• Conduct SQL query performance analysis and optimize database interactions for high-throughput scenarios.

• Validate MongoDB query performance, indexing strategies, and data access patterns under load.
• Chaos/Resiliency for Kafka, MQ, Application, Mongo, AWS cloud

Messaging & Streaming Systems

• Design and execute performance tests for Kafka-based event-driven architectures, including producer/consumer throughput, partition performance, and lag analysis.

• Conduct IBM MQ performance testing including queue depth analysis, message throughput, and latency benchmarking.

• Test ECS containerized workloads, including auto-scaling behavior, container resource utilization, and service mesh performance.

Monitoring & Analysis

• Leverage a strong knowledge of monitoring tools — AppDynamics, Kibana, BMC TrueSight — to analyze system health and identify potential bottlenecks.

• Produce and maintain Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) around testing performed. Manage best-in-class service quality and SLA/OLA compliance.

• Provide tuning recommendations for infrastructure components including Application Servers, Database Servers, Message Buses, and Web Servers.

Framework & Continuous Improvement

• Identify, recommend, and implement frameworks, strategies, and toolsets to optimize test execution, expand test coverage, and reduce risk.

• Drive continuous process improvement and test framework/script optimization to achieve efficient, repeatable testing solutions.

• Automate repetitive tasks

• Support active contribution in creating performance testing artefacts including Performance Test Strategy, Test Plans/Estimates, Optimization Reports, and KPI Dashboards.

• Work in an Agile testing methodology environment

Technical Skills & Competencies

Core Performance Engineering Skills (Required)

• Load, volume, stress, capacity, and scalability testing design and execution

• End-to-end application profiling and bottleneck identification

• Performance test strategy, planning, and documentation

• SLA definition, measurement, and reporting

• Infrastructure tuning (Application Servers, Database Servers, MQ, Web Servers)

• AWR analysis for Oracle database performance

• SQL performance analysis

• MongoDB query analysis

• Kafka performance testing (producer/consumer throughput, lag analysis)

• IBM MQ performance and throughput testing

• ECS/AWS Cloud containerized workload performance testing
• Chaos/Resiliency testing

• C programming for system-level scripting and driver development

• Java programming for test framework development and automation

• Agile testing methodology

Monitoring & Tooling (Required)

• AppDynamics — full-stack APM and profiling

• Kibana / ELK Stack — log analysis and visualization

• LoadRunner Enterprise (MF Performance Center)

• BMC TrueSight / HP SiteScope — infrastructure monitoring

Good to Have

• Additional programming languages: JavaScript, Python, C#, Ruby

• Business domain knowledge: Corporate Digital Channels, Payments, Receivables, Treasury & Trade

• Knowledge of containerization and microservices architectures

Qualifications

• 10–12 years of experience in an IT Quality role with demonstrated ability to work independently or within cross-functional teams on complex projects.

• Requires in-depth knowledge, understanding, and analytical thought. Exhibits comprehensive knowledge of several areas within IT Quality and has a good understanding of the industry.

• Strong understanding of testing processes. In-depth understanding of the Systems Development Lifecycle (SDLC) and solid experience in several phases of systems development, preferably in testing program management.

• Must demonstrate confidence and ownership in their area of expertise.

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Job Family Group:

Technology

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Job Family:

Technology Quality

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Time Type:

Full time

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