Job Description

Hello Future Performance Test Engineer

Welcome to FNB, the home of the #changeables. We design for the shapeshifters and deliver products and services that make us incredibly proud of people that make it happen.

As part of our talented team, you will be surrounded by unique talents, diverse minds, and an adaptable environment that lives up to the promise of staying curious. Now’s the time to imagine your potential in a team where experts come together and ignite effective change.

To implement and support performance testing systems and strategies to ensure that critical components of a system’s application can perform as expected under varying user loads, helping to evaluate the resource usage, speed, availability, response time, scalability, and reliability of any given application and to assist in making it ready for productionAre you someone who can

• Control expenditure and identify process improvements to contain and reduce costs.
• Build working relationships across teams and functional lines to enhance work delivery, collaboration and innovation.
• Create solutions to meet customer demands to deliver internal and external customer service excellence through adherence to quality service standards.
• Ensure development and continuous value add improvement to operational processes.
• Write automation scripts for identified scenarios to help improve software quality.
• Ensure that critical components of a systems application can perform as expected under varying user loads.
• Develop performance strategies to address the non-functional requirements throughout Software or Product Development Life Cycles.
• Evaluate the resource usage, speed availability, response time, scalability, and reliability of any given application and assist in making it ready for production.
• Evaluate the business transactions conducted within the Applications, System and/or service.
• Validate and certify if performance, scalability, availability, resilience, and reliability requirements are met.
• Work with architecture and development teams in implementing resiliency constructs, develop optimal code.
• Develop a comprehensive performance test strategy by selecting and executing the types of performance testing that are most relevant to the organization’s applications.
• Provide performance test reports describing the capabilities and limitations of the Application, System and/or Service.
• Compile Performance Test reports that track progress and guide business to make informed decisions.
• Formulate and publish a detailed performance test report which includes client and server-side metrics.
• Create and maintain performance test scripts and scenarios, ensuring scripting standards are put in place and adhered to.
• Manage and coordinate test data creation, collection, and modification and prepare data tables files to associate with the test scripts.
• Deliver quality work products according to the defined testing scope, raising risks and issues appropriately with regards to the performance of tasks or timelines scheduled.
• Identify improvement areas and implement automation to improve productivity to avoid manual tasks and recurring incidents.
• Investigate impact of user traffic on the Application, System and/or Service Monitor Servers, Applications and Databases.
• Analyse root causes of performance issues and provide corrective actions.

You’ll benefit from our changeable benefits like:

• Inspiring work environment
• Work that is challenging
• Space to make a difference.
• Opportunities to innovate.
• Focus on health and wellbeing (onsite wellness center, gym and crèche at our main campus to innovative employee wellbeing and financial fitness programmes)
• Resources to help you with your professional development.
• Generous leave policy
• Preferential employee banking rates
• When it comes to learning and development, we encourage our changeable to expand their knowledge, on their own, with others, in person or online.
• As for our workspace, it is immersive, collaborative, and energetic because at FNB, innovation is our lifeblood and change in our DNA.

Are you interested to take the step? We look forward to engaging with you further. Apply now!

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Important Closing Date Note

Take note that applications will not be accepted on the below date and onwards, kindly submit applications ahead of the closing date indicated below.

25/07/26 All appointments will be made in line with FirstRand Group’s Employment Equity plan. The Bank supports the recruitment and advancement of individuals with disabilities. In order for us to fulfill this purpose, candidates can disclose their disability information on a voluntary basis. The Bank will keep this information confidential unless we are required by law to disclose this information to other parties.