HSBC

Associate Director, Software Engineering

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13 hours ago
Pune, IndiaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Define performance-testing strategy, approaches, success criteria, workload models, and API-level scenarios for Open Banking non-functional requirements.
  • Design, build, maintain, and automate load, stress, endurance/soak, and spike test suites integrated with CI/CD pipelines.
  • Analyze response times, resource utilization, thread and connection behavior, queueing, and other performance results to identify bottlenecks.
  • Collaborate with SRE/DevOps and platform teams on performance environments, monitoring, dashboards, alerts, tuning, and incident triage.
  • Validate cloud-native components and provide performance reports, remediation recommendations, risk communications, and release sign-off evidence.
  • Promote performance-engineering best practices across the team.

Requirements

  • Minimum Bachelor Degree of Engineering.
  • Strong hands-on experience in performance testing and performance engineering for APIs and distributed systems.
  • Experience with JMeter and/or Gatling or equivalent performance-testing tools, including scripting, parameterization, correlation, and result analysis.
  • Experience integrating performance testing into CI/CD, such as with Jenkins, and using Jira, GitHub, and Confluence.
  • Good understanding of AWS and cloud-native architectures, including networking, load balancing, auto-scaling, and container platforms.
  • Strong monitoring, observability, and performance-diagnostics skills using Splunk, AppDynamics, and CloudWatch.
  • Working knowledge of Linux and Python and/or Shell scripting for test automation, environment checks, and reporting.
  • Strong understanding of non-functional requirements, resilience patterns, and high-availability concepts.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills; banking-domain knowledge and Open Banking/API familiarity are beneficial.

Benefits

  • Flexible working, continuous professional development, and opportunities for career growth.
  • Inclusive and diverse workplace where employees are valued and respected.

Tech Stack

Apache JMeterAWSJenkinsLinuxPythonSplunk

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About HSBC

10,000+ employees

HSBC is a global bank that provides retail, commercial and investment banking, payments, and wealth management to individuals, SMEs, and multinationals. It earns fees, interest income, and trading revenues through branches and digital platforms across major markets. Headquartered in London, it serves over 40 million customers in 58 countries and is listed in London, Hong Kong, New York, and Bermuda.

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