For additional information, please review .* **Strategy & Execution:** Defining and implementing comprehensive non-functional testing strategies for Prime Services applications, including performance, load, stress, scalability, and resilience testing.* **Leadership & Mentorship:** Guiding and mentoring a team of engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, continuous improvement, and innovation in testing practices.* **Technical Expertise:** Applying deep technical knowledge to design, develop, and maintain advanced testing frameworks, tools, and simulations that mimic real-world Prime Services operational scenarios.* **Collaboration:** Working closely with development, product, and operations teams to embed non-functional requirements early in the development lifecycle and to provide timely, actionable insights into application behavior under various conditions.* **Risk Mitigation:** Identifying potential bottlenecks, failure points, and performance degradation risks within the application architecture and proposing effective mitigation strategies.* **Strategic Non-Functional Testing (NFT) Leadership:** Lead the definition, development, and implementation of comprehensive NFT strategies and approaches across Prime Services applications. This encompasses designing test objectives, scope, success criteria, and ensuring effective rollout of NFT processes from early development phases through to production.* **Advanced Performance Engineering & Analysis:** Drive deep application profiling, core performance engineering, and tuning activities. Expertly utilize tools and methodologies for analyzing heap and thread dumps, performing **Splunk** and other log profiling, conducting SQL Profiling, and AWR analysis to precisely identify and resolve performance bottlenecks at the code, configuration, and architectural layers.* **Test Environment, Tooling & Execution Oversight:** Manage the setup, configuration, and meticulous maintenance of dedicated non-functional test environments that accurately replicate production conditions. This includes evaluating, selecting, and integrating cutting-edge non-functional testing tools such as **LoadRunner**, **JMeter**, and developing **custom scripting** for test execution, alongside building custom test harnesses and automation scripts.* **Process Governance & Continuous Improvement:** Establish, design, and enforce robust standards and procedures for all NFT activities throughout the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). Continuously analyze organizational trends and external industry best practices to foster continuous improvement, streamline processes, and ensure consistency and high quality across the organization.* **Integration of Observability & Site Reliability Engineering (SRE):** Champion the integration of non-functional testing with advanced observability and monitoring capabilities to support robust Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices. Collaborate closely with technology and production support teams to build comprehensive monitoring solutions utilizing platforms like **Grafana** for both pre- and post-production performance validation.* **Chaos Engineering & Resilience Testing:** Design and implement chaos engineering experiments to proactively identify vulnerabilities and failure modes in Prime Services applications and infrastructure. Employ methodologies to simulate real-world disruptions (e.g., latency injection, service outages, resource exhaustion) to validate system resilience, fault tolerance, and automated recovery mechanisms.* **Team and Project Leadership:** Lead and mentor a global team of high-profile performance engineers, managing resource allocation, project estimates, and task prioritization across multiple streams. Drive talent development, conduct performance evaluations, and foster technical excellence and growth within the team.* **Cross-Functional Collaboration & Delivery Excellence:** Foster effective collaboration with diverse stakeholders including technology teams, User Acceptance Testing (UAT) professionals, and business users from critical departments like Equities Prime and Futures Clearing. Deliver complex performance and non-functional engineering assignments for high-impact banking products.* **Capacity Management & Risk Mitigation:** Proactively identify and assess infrastructure capacity headroom for franchise-critical applications in both production and performance environments. Implement strategies to mitigate performance and stability risks, ensuring adherence to regulatory requirements, internal Citi policies, and sound ethical judgment in all technical decisions.* 7-10+ years of extensive experience in Performance Testing and Performance Engineering, with a proven track record in optimizing complex financial applications.* 2-3 years of hands-on experience specifically in Chaos Engineering, designing and executing experiments to validate system resilience and fault tolerance.* Demonstrated excellence in applying performance engineering principles, observability techniques (including tools like Splunk, Grafana), resiliency patterns, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices.* Highly proficient in utilizing a wide array of performance testing tools (e.g., LoadRunner, JMeter, custom scripting) and advanced analytics to identify performance bottlenecks and deliver actionable recommendations for significant improvements in application throughput and capacity.* **Software Development Lifecycle & Methodologies:** In-depth knowledge of software development and testing lifecycle methodologies, with extensive experience in Agile practices, project management, and issue tracking using Jira.* **Performance Engineering Tools:** Proficient with leading performance testing tools including LoadRunner, LoadRunner Enterprise, and JMeter, along with custom scripting for test automation.* **Observability & Monitoring Platforms:** Well-versed in observability and monitoring solutions such as AppDynamics, Splunk, Grafana, and the ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) stack.* **Cloud Native & Distributed Technologies:** Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies like OpenShift and Kubernetes, and distributed messaging systems like Kafka.* **Programming & Database Expertise:** Hands-on experience with programming languages (e.g., Python, Java) and database technologies (e.g., Oracle DB, PostgreSQL, SQL).* **Documentation & Collaboration:** Working knowledge of Confluence for comprehensive documentation and knowledge management.* **Influential Communication:** Exceptional communication and diplomacy skills, with a proven ability to persuade, influence, and articulate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences.* **Team Leadership & Mentorship:** Demonstrated capability to assume leadership roles, effectively guiding and mentoring junior team members to foster professional growth and technical excellence.* **Interpersonal & Collaboration:** Strong interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills, essential for effective collaboration with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.#J-18808-Ljbffr