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.
What you'll be doing
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 a 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.
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.
The extras you'll get
* A personal pension - if you put in 7% of your salary, we'll top up by a further 16%
* Up to 2 days of paid volunteering a year
* Life assurance worth 8x your salary
* A great selection of additional benefits through our salary sacrifice scheme
* Wellhub - Access to a range of free and paid options for health and wellness.
* Access to an annual performance related bonus
* Access to training to help you develop and progress your career
* 25 days holiday, pro rata
What makes us different
Nationwide is the world's largest building society. With over 15 million customers, we have a relationship with almost a quarter of the UK's population. We've got the scale to compete with the big banks, but we're not a bank.
As a building society, we're owned by our members - that's our customers who have their current account, mortgage or savings with us. It means we can do things differently to deliver our Purpose - Banking - but fairer, more rewarding, and for the good of society.
When you work at Nationwide, you can experience that difference for yourself. You'll be part of a high-performing, purpose-driven organisation that offers rewarding career experiences and a highly competitive range of benefits to match. You'll also be joining us at an important time as we seek to reach more and more people in the UK. We want everyone in the UK to know that they don't have to bank with a bank. They can choose a modern mutual instead.
What to do next
If this role is for you, please click the 'Apply Now' button. You'll need to attach your up-to-date CV and answer a few quick questions for us.
We respond to everyone, so we will be in contact shortly after the closing date to let you know the outcome of your application.
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