Consultant Specialist

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We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Consultant Specialist.

Business: IWPB Technology

Principal responsibilities

• You will play role of Performance Engineer across Accounts Value Stream and provide ongoing input into the overall process improvement of the Performance Engineering discipline.
• Opportunity to build Performance assurance procedures with the latest feasible tools and techniques, establish Performance test automation process to improve testing productivity. 
• You are expected to support multiple Cloud (AWS) migration and Production initiatives using a wide range of tools and utilities, you identify performance related issues in the applications and systems and present your findings to other teams in the organization to ensure system reliability.
• Represent at Scrum meetings and all other key project meetings and provide a single point of accountability and escalation for Performance testing within the scrum teams.
• Advise on needed infrastructure and Performance Engineering and testing guidelines & be responsible for performance risk assessment of various Web and Mobile application features.
• This is a largely cross-functional opportunity working with software product, development and support teams, capable of handling tasks to accelerate the testing delivery and to improve the quality for
• Applications at HSBC Work across all global activities and support the Performance Engineering team in ensuring any testing-related dependencies/ touchpoints are in place.
• You will be a Performance Engineering SME, as a result, you will have exposure to a broader set of problems, understanding customer experience, migrations, new cloud initiatives, improving platform performance, Optimize environments.
• Establish effective working relationships across other areas of HSBC, e.g., Business Product Owner, Digital Delivery Team, Transformation, and IT Provide recommendations to the Product Owner and/or other project stakeholders on the product readiness to go live. 

Requirement

• Performance Engineering and testing cloud hosted digital platforms (e.g., AWS)
• Working knowledge (preferably with an AWS Solutions Architect certification) on Cloud Platforms like AWS and AWS Key Services and DevOps tools like CloudFormation, Teraform.
• Performance engineering and testing of web-based applications.
• Performance engineering toolsets such as JMeter, Microfocus Performance Center, BrowserStack, Taurus, Lighthouse.
• Monitoring/logging tools (such as AppDynamics, New Relic, Splunk, DataDog)
• Windows / UNIX / Linux / Web / Database / Network performance monitors to diagnose performance issues along with JVM tuning and Heap analyzing skills.
• Docker, Kubernetes and Cloud-native development and container orchestration frameworks, Kubernetes clusters, pods & nodes, vertical/horizontal pod autoscaling concepts, High availability.
• Performance Testing and Engineering activity planning, estimating, designing, executing and analyzing output from performance tests.
• Working in an agile environment, "DevOps" team or a similar multi-skilled team in a technically demanding function Jenkins and CI-CD Pipelines including Pipeline scripting.
• Chaos engineering using tools like Chaos toolkit, AWS Fault Injection Simulator, Gremlin etc.
• Programming and scripting language skills in Java, Shell, Scala, Groovy, Python and knowledge of security mechanisms such as OAuth etc.
• Tools like GitHub, Jira & Confluence
• Assisting with Resiliency Production support teams and Performance Incident Root Cause Analysis
• Ability to prioritize work effectively and deliver within agreed service levels in a diverse and ever-changing environment.
• High levels of judgment and decision making, being able to rationalize and present the background and reasoning for direction taken.
• Strong stakeholder management and excellent communication skills.
• Extensive knowledge of risk management and mitigation
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills 

You’ll achieve more when you join HSBC. 

HSBC is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a culture where all employees are valued, respected and opinions count. We take pride in providing a workplace that fosters continuous professional development, flexible working and, opportunities to grow within an inclusive and diverse environment. We encourage applications from all suitably qualified persons irrespective of, but not limited to, their gender or genetic information, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, social status, medical care leave requirements, political affiliation, people with disabilities, color, national origin, veteran status, etc., We consider all applications based on merit and suitability to the role.” 

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