Performance Test Engineer (E2)

at  Nationwide

We’re looking to strengthen our SAP Performance Test Engineering team to keep in pace with demand and delivery schedules forecasted for coming years not only within Retail Products , Banking & Savings and also to support key strategic programmes.

• As a Performance Test Engineer , you will be working with high-performing individuals, helping accelerate our test engineering transformation, embedding test solutions which ensure the Society has built the right products & services to the right quality, evidencing the change delivers the agreed outcomes.
• At Nationwide we openly put our members at the centre of every decision we make as a business. Every role, no matter what it’s doing, is member focused.
• You’ll be working within our SAP Platform Team and will be combining accountabilities for delivery, continuous improvement and building an in-house capability, enabling us to deliver a legendary service to our members.
• Your success isn’t based on how long you spend at your desk. There are no contracted hours, but you need to make yourself available for key meetings. That might mean working from home or different Nationwide offices or agreeing a working pattern to help you balance work and life. We will always strive to find a way that works for everyone.

At Nationwide we offer hybrid working wherever possible. More rewarding relationships are supported through our hybrid approach, bringing colleagues together across our UK wide estate, whilst also supporting generous access to home working. We value our time in the office to solve problems, to learn, and to feel connected.
For this job you’ll spend at least two days per week, or if part time you’ll spend 40% of your working time, based at our Swindon office. If your application is successful, your hiring manager will provide further details on how this works. You can also find out more about our approach to hybrid working here.
If we receive a high volume of relevant applications, we may close the advert earlier than the advertised date, so please apply as soon as you can.

ABOUT YOU

We are looking for a Performance Test Engineer who will work within a community of multi skilled teams supporting our Banking and Savings applications.
You will have knowledge & experience of the following:

Essential Skills :

• Understanding technologies and appropriate test approaches for system topologies including mainframe, client server, Cloud and event driven architectures .
• Knowledge and experience of End to End software development cycles and methodologies
• Production of test evidence and associated artefacts to support quality
• Tools such as Performance Centre, JMeter, SOAP UI , NMon, JIRA
• Coding ability for Performance Centre Scripting including Web service, HTTP, DotNet protocols using TLS/SSL, X509 and SAML encryption.
• Knowledge of databases and expertise in structured querying to support testing, generate test data.
• Knowledge of network infrastructure including load balancing, firewalls, routing, and network protocols.

Beneficial Skills:

• Technical expertise in IBM Z mainframes, DB2, Linux (RedHat), SAP landscapes, delivery processes and tooling with a focus on SAP BS (Banking Service), SAP BW (Business Warehouse), SAP DS (Data Services), SAP Solution Manager (Solman), SAP HANA, Wintel Client Server including IIS, MS SQL.
• Hands on Experience with NMon, JIRA, SAP GUI (for SAP monitoring/Performance analysis/Debugging ),
• Control-M - Workload automation solution to automate the scheduling and processing of business workflows / Overnight Batch Schedule .
• Shell scripting on Linux and understanding of ABAP, Java
• Hands on Experience with any Performance Monitoring tools -AppDynamics, Dynatrace, WILY
• Profiling tools – Fiddler , Wireshark

Our Customer First behaviours are all about putting customers and members at the heart of how we work together. You can strengthen your application by showing the behaviours that resonate with you, and how you might have already demonstrated these.

• Say it straight - This is about being honest and direct with good intent and saying what needs to be said in the room. It’s also about being clear, precise, and using language that we and, importantly, our customers and members can understand.
• Push for better - This is about aiming high and constantly looking for better in how we work together and serve our customers and members.
• Get it done - This is about prioritising what will have the greatest impact, being decisive and taking accountability for delivering on the end-to-end outcome.

We know applying for jobs can sometimes feel like you’re sending an application into a black hole. We review each application individually. So, it’s a good idea to call out your most relevant experience on your application to give yourself the best chance.

We need great people to help us in test engineering transformation: embedding test solutions which ensure the Society has built the right products & services to the right quality, evidencing the change delivers the agreed outcomes. Joining the Engineering Centre of Excellence, you will work within one of our test teams and contributing to performance test deliveries.
You will be responsible for delivering performance test within a team of performance testers , planning, developing scripts scenarios, preparing data / environment , test execution , analysis of results and documenting performance test outcome . You will also be supporting OAT and Security testing where required . You will need to work closely with other teams with engineering in fault diagnosis , performance modelling & capacity planning . You will be responsible for making decisions with confidence and at pace in order to help drive delivery dates.
On daily basis you will be working across our SAP systems, but you will also be required to liaise with colleagues across the enterprise ensuring our systems and applications perform and integrate with other systems and applications across the IT estate.