Testing - Performance - Senior Professional

QE - Banking - Senior - NonFunctional and Automation

The Opportunity

We are looking for a Senior Non-Functional Requirements (NFR) Specialist / Senior Non-Functional Test Engineer with strong automation expertise to lead and elevate non-functional quality across enterprise banking platforms. This role demands deep technical and domain expertise, ownership of NFR strategy, and the ability to drive cross-team alignment on performance, resilience, security, and observability outcomes. Operating in an offshore (India) model, the role requires high autonomy, leadership through influence, and the ability to deliver audit-ready, measurable results at scale.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Lead non-functional testing and engineering initiatives across performance, resilience, security, usability, and observability domains.
• Design and implement advanced performance engineering practices, including workload modeling, benchmarking, capacity planning, and system tuning recommendations.
• Must have automation & test engineering maturity, should be able to build scalable NFR test frameworks and components using Java or TypeScript, following Test as Code principles with reusable and standardized assets
• Drive resilience engineering through failure experiments, recovery validation, and robustness verification across distributed systems.
• Oversee security test engineering aligned with OWASP Top 10, including misconfiguration detection and validation of security controls, along with interpretation of DAST/SAST outputs.
• Establish repeatable usability and accessibility validation practices aligned with WCAG standards, ensuring evidence-based quality checks.
• Define and validate observability and operability readiness, including SLIs/SLOs, alert effectiveness, and runbook completeness.
• Lead CI/CD integration of NFR validation with threshold management, trend-based gating, flakiness control, and environment-aware execution.
• Define and govern NFR requirements, ensuring measurable criteria, validation strategies, and audit-ready evidence standards.
• Drive advanced root cause analysis across teams using logs, metrics, traces, and code-level insights, ensuring closure and validation of fixes.
• Own and structure NFR validation using Jira (Xray), including test design, execution tracking, reporting, and KPI measurement.
• Act as a remote lead by aligning stakeholders, preparing decision-ready materials, and ensuring seamless collaboration across time zones.
• Proactively identify risks, provide impact analysis, and define mitigation strategies with clear recommendations.
• Standardize NFR approaches across teams through templates, frameworks, and reusable best practices while mentoring and coaching team members.

Skills and attributes for success

• Must-Have
  • Strong banking domain knowledge, including core banking processes and channels.
  • Broad understanding of technology across all layers (UI/browser, APIs, services, databases, networking, IAM, proxies/WAF).
  • Extensive hands-on experience in non-functional testing across performance, resilience, security, usability, and observability.
  • Automation capability with Java or TypeScript (Python optional) and experience with Test-as-Code practices.
  • Experience integrating NFR checks into CI/CD pipelines with quality gates and monitoring.
  • Strong analytical and debugging skills for root cause identification and performance optimization.
  • Expertise in defining measurable NFR criteria, designing tests, and ensuring traceability with supporting evidence.
  • Experience using Jira (Xray) for test management and reporting.
• Beneficial
  • Experience with Temenos or similar core banking platforms and integration patterns.
  • Strong expertise across multiple tools such as Selenium, Playwright, Rest Assured, K6, JMeter, Gatling, OWASP ZAP, Burp Suite, Dynatrace, OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, Tempo/Loki, and Tableau.
  • Experience in defining enterprise-level performance, resilience, and security strategies.
  • Experience in coaching teams or leading communities of practice to enhance NFR maturity.
• Soft Skills
  • Strong leadership through influence, aligning cross-functional teams without formal authority.
  • High ownership mindset with proactive risk identification and mitigation planning.
  • Excellent communication skills, especially in high-pressure scenarios such as incidents or tasks.