Principal Performance QA Engineer

Posted 10 Days Ago
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Porto
Senior level
Fintech • Software
The Role
The Principal Performance QA Engineer will lead the performance analysis division, design and implement performance testing frameworks, evaluate distributed architectures, and ensure high performance and stability for the trading business at a major investment bank.
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Company Description

Devexperts works with respected financial institutions, delivering products and tailor-made solutions for retail and brokerage houses, exchanges, and buy-side firms. The company focuses on trading platforms and brokerage automation, complex software development projects, market data products, and IT consulting services. 

Job Description

We are looking for a Principal Performance QA Engineer who will join a team working for one of the world's biggest investment banks. Your goal will be to build effective performance evaluation strategies and practices to ensure high availability and stability of the core trading business.

We expect the Principal Performance QA Engineer to:

  • Lead, inspire and motivate performance analysis division,
  • Envision and research the most effective performance testing approaches,
  • Design and implement complex performance testing frameworks within distributed high-load systems,
  • Evaluate, monitor, and articulate decisions to the key stakeholders,
  • Work on best practices across your team and Company in general.

Qualifications

    Must-have skills: 

    • Desire to learn a lot and fast – we admire fast learners,
    • Ambition to lead by example; empathy and collaboration as your most effective tools,
    • Advanced understanding of distributed architectures and technologies,
    • Advanced object-oriented programming experience,
    • Strong technical team leadership skills,
    • 3+ years of experience in positions:
      • Team Lead,
      • Senior/Leading Performance Analyst,
      • Senior/Leading SDET
      • Quality Manager,
    • Proven track of delivering reliable and adaptive performance testing frameworks,
    • Problem-solving mindset and desire to charge your team to do amazing things.

    Nice to have skills:

    • FinTech testing or a trading background – Devexperts creates FinTech, and your experience will be very valued,
    • People management: hiring, motivation and continuous improvement background,
    • Presentation mastery - we would like to promote the best ideas and mentor our engineers.

    Additional Information

    Care for the employees is one of Devexperts' core values. For the suggested position, we offer a benefits package that will guarantee the comfort of our new teammate.

    Work Regime Flexibility benefits: 

    • Possibility of hybrid/remote work mode,
    • Flexible working hours,
    • Work From Anywhere Program.

    Health and recreation benefits: 

    • Fully paid additional wellness days (3 unwell days per year),
    • Medical insurance for the employees and children,
    • Reimbursement of fitness / Urban Sports Club Membership,
    • Meal allowance (Coverflex Card),
    • Flexpay system (Coverflex).

    Facility benefits: 

    • Modern office with new equipment,
    • PlayStation, table football, and musical instruments in the office,
    • Parking spaces/transport reimbursement,
    • Free drinks and snacks.

    Community benefits: 

    • Teambuilding activities,
    • Corporate parties,
    • Football Club,
    • Music club,
    • Speakers' club,
    • Free admission to corporate external events,
    • Possibility of joining conferences and professional fairs,
    • Personal branding development support.

    Professional training benefits: 

    • English language courses,
    • Local language courses for foreign employees,
    • Unlimited access to self-learning platforms,
    • Certification opportunities,
    • Mentorship Program.

    Social benefits: 

    • Parental bonus,
    • Pension plan (Coverflex),
    • Referral bonus,
    • Blood donation paid leave.

    Top Skills

    Object-Oriented Programming
    Performance Testing
    The Company
    HQ: Jersey City, NJ
    646 Employees
    On-site Workplace
    Year Founded: 2002

    What We Do

    Devexperts was founded in 2002 and specializes in the development of highly complex software solutions and services for the Capital Markets industry.

    We develop financial software solutions for retail and institutional brokerages, wealth-management firms, investment funds, exchanges, and insurance companies.

    Devexperts market expertise ranges from Equities to Options, to FX and Commodities in geographical locations as diverse as Chicago, New York, London, Tokyo, Istanbul, and Shanghai.

    The Devexperts development team of 500 engineers is recognized as one of the best in the world. Since 2002, we have received more than 25 of the global software and financial industry's most prestigious awards.

    In order to achieve competitive effectiveness, our project teams adhere to classic software development methodologies and employ elements of Agile software development, such as Scrum, Kanban, eXtreme Programming, Continuous Integration, and Test-Driven Development.

    The high performance, scalability and integration capabilities of our products and services, along with 24x7x365 monitoring and support, result in some of the global financial industry’s most recognized and reliable technology applications (for leading US brokerage companies).

    Devexperts has 3 key business areas:
    • Trading platforms and brokerage automation
    • Complex software development projects
    • Market data products

    Devexperts also provides consulting services for financial institutions in the fields of:
    • Real-time transaction processing
    • Trading automation
    • Risk management
    • Highly complex, enterprise-wide trading platform applications.

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