Senior Test Analyst recruitment

The position is held within the Strategic Components department.  The department is a global cross asset software and infrastructure department providing high end solutions covering but not limited to:
• Valuation Services / FORCE for Front Office Structured Derivatives, Market Risk, Finance and Production Control.
• High performance trade caching architecture covering multiple upstream trading systems such as Sophis, Summit, Calypso.
• Market Data service and hosting with the Derivatives Market Data Service (DMDS/XDS) via the One Rate Environment.

• Development as appropriate relevant performance testing strategies, initially for the DMDS / XDS platform

• Tailoring existing company available or suggesting the appropriate performance testing tools relevant for the department.

• Determine the performance and capacity criteria; as well as the types of performance testing and the types of monitoring required for each project.

• Work closely with the QA team not only within Strategic Components but the main QA team to ensure bank best standards and practices are adhered to

• Lead/direct overall Performance Test Phase from planning to closure

• Coordinate/Document actual test results, provide status reports and manage and track all issues found related to performance testing from beginning to end

Work closely with the Automated Tester in the department to ensure full knowledge / idea sharing.

• Experience of high performance computing solutions and providing performance testing controls and management to such.

• Experience with multi-threaded, distributed systems spanning regions, hardware and technology

Grid computing, particularly DataSynapse, and data fabrics such as Coherence, GigaSpaces or Terracotta