Job Summary
- Banking domain knowledge (solid understanding of core banking processes and channels)
- Broad technology understanding across all layers (client/browser, APIs, services, databases, network, IAM, proxies/WAF)
- Strong hands-on non-functional testing experience across multiple dimensions, including:
- Performance & load testing (load/stress/soak, capacity, latency/throughput, scalability, bottleneck analysis)
- Resilience & availability testing (failure scenarios, timeouts, retries, fault-injection approaches)
- Security testing (test-focused) (OWASP Top 10 understanding, authN/authZ checks, config/header checks, basic DAST/SAST interpretation)
- Usability & accessibility quality checks (basic WCAG understanding, accessibility tree awareness, user-flow quality)
- Operability & observability fitness (logging/metrics/tracing requirements, alerting fitness, basic SLI/SLO understanding)
- Automation capability (mandatory, not primary focus):
- Java or TypeScript (Python optional) for utilities, checks, harnesses
- Test as Code: versioned, reproducible NFR checks and assets
- CI/CD experience integrating NFR checks into pipelines (thresholds, gates, trends)
- NFR engineering / requirements analysis: measurable criteria, test design, measurement points, evidence and traceability
- Root cause analysis for NFR failures using logs/metrics/traces and code-level reasoning
- Jira (Xray) test definition/execution and evidence linking for NFR validation
Key Responsibilities
Skill Requirements
- Temenos (or comparable core banking platforms)
- Tools: K6, JMeter (or Gatling), basic OWASP ZAP/Burp; Selenium/Playwright for synthetic checks
- Monitoring & observability: Prometheus/Grafana, Dynatrace, OpenTelemetry, Tempo/Loki, Splunk, Tableau
- Accessibility tooling: axe, Lighthouse; screen reader basics
- Regulatory/standards awareness (e.g., DORA/FINMA principles: auditability, resilience, evidence)
- Test data management knowledge (anonymized/synthetic, environment constraints)
Soft Skills (Must-Have)
- Strong collaboration with Dev, Ops/SRE, Security, Architecture, Product and Test Management
- Analytical thinking for measurement, debugging and optimization
- Initiative and ownership to drive NFR strategy and standards (templates, gates, reporting)
- Clear communication for technical deep-dives and management-level summaries (risk/impact/trends)
- Ability to handle critical situations (incident/task-force involvement)