QA: Performance & Reliability Test Engineer

KAARA.AI IS HIRING

QA: Performance & Reliability Test Engineer

Load · Stress · Scalability · Failover & DR

Function: Information Technology

Experience: 5 – 8 years

Location: Bangalore

ROLE PURPOSE

We are hiring a Performance & Reliability Test Engineer to performance-test high-volume transaction platforms for banking and

regulated financial services.

KEY FOCUS AREAS

• Performance testing of high-volume transaction platforms.
• Load, stress, spike, endurance and scalability testing.
• Latency, throughput, auto-scaling, throttling, cache and DB behaviour.
• Failover and DR validation.

REQUIRED SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

• Banking and channels: Experience in banking or regulated financial services, preferably Internet Banking, Mobile Banking, payment journeys, onboarding or customer servicing.

• QA lifecycle: Test planning, risk-based scenario design, test-case preparation, execution, evidence, defect lifecycle, retesting,regression, traceability, UAT support and closure.

• API testing: Postman, Swagger/Open API and REST API validation. REST Assured or equivalent automation experience is preferred for technical profiles.

• Automation: Hands-on skill in Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, Appium or equivalent. TOSCA is an added advantage, not a substitute for domain and hands-on testing capability.

• Architecture: Understanding of microservices, API gateways/BFF, event-driven integration, external dependencies, distributed logs/traces and CI/CD-integrated testing.

• Tools: Jira, ServiceNow, HP ALM or Zephyr; Git; CI/CD test execution; dashboards and test-evidence management.

• Channels: Exposure to web, iOS/Android mobile, APIs, backend services and end-to-end integrated journeys.

• Ways of working: Agile/Scrum, story refinement, acceptance-criteria review, sprint ceremonies, defect triage and cross-team coordination.

• Communication: Ability to communicate business impact, dependency risk, test status and release concerns to Bank, SI partner, product, engineering and control teams.

• Data and security: Responsible handling of test data, masking, evidence redaction, credentials and sensitive banking information.

PREFERRED SKILLS

• JMeter/Gatling/k6.
• APM, metrics/logs/traces.
• Kubernetes awareness.
• Banking workload modelling.

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