performance test engineer (auto) in financial services

The role supports internal clients in financial services, ensuring that applications and services meet expectations for speed, stability, and resilience under varying loads and complexity. It contributes to private banking technology and financial services in Spain.

• Support internal clients in designing, developing, and executing performance and load tests for business-critical applications and services
• Design, implement, and maintain synthetic monitoring solutions to assess application availability and user experience
• Create actionable test reports with performance analysis and optimization recommendations
• Review performance testing and monitoring code written in Java, JavaScript, and TypeScript for quality, maintainability, and adherence to standards
• Advise internal stakeholders on defining and implementing performance testing and monitoring strategies
• Analyze performance bottlenecks across applications, APIs, infrastructure, and integrations, and recommend improvements
• Contribute to improving test environments, automation frameworks, methodologies, and best practices
• Ensure test solutions remain high-quality, stable, and maintainable throughout the software delivery lifecycle

• Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a comparable technical discipline (HF/FH/University)
• Several years of hands-on experience in performance testing, test automation, or software engineering in complex enterprise environments
• Advanced hands-on experience developing performance and synthetic monitoring solutions with Playwright (Java, TypeScript) and Grafana k6 (JavaScript)
• Practical experience developing and maintaining CI/CD workflows using Bitbucket, Jenkins, or GitLab
• Strong analytical skills and a structured, methodical approach to troubleshooting and root-cause identification
• Solid understanding of system architectures, APIs, networking concepts, and cloud-native applications
• Ability to communicate performance test results and risks, translating technical findings into business insights
• Strong knowledge of performance testing methodologies, metrics, and monitoring platforms such as Grafana, Prometheus, or Dynatrace
• Excellent communication skills and a collaborative, customer-focused working style
• Fluent English
• Будет плюсом: banking or financial services experience, Exense Step for test execution, modern observability concepts including OpenTelemetry and distributed tracing, cloud and container platforms such as Azure and Kubernetes

• Hybrid role based in Madrid city center