Performance Lead
About MCO (MyComplianceOffice)
MCO is a rising star in the world of compliance technology. From a humble startup, MCO is now the global leader in conduct-risk compliance management, with almost 1500 clients around the world, including many of the global financial leaders.
MCO is 15 years old and continues to enjoy tremendous growth. Recent product developments, new acquisitions, and unfilled needs in the market creates exciting opportunities for MCO to expand in the coming years. Business has been booming – with MCO achieving the much-heralded status of “the rule of 40” reflecting our excellent sales growth and underlying financial health. Recently voted the Technology Company of the Year, MCO is recognized as a world leader. MCO is financially strong with revenues and customer base growing at over 20% per annum.
MCO has an extensive Product Delivery team spread around the world and are now looking for an enthusiastic Chief Product Delivery Officer lead this organization. This person will lead this organization to deliver exciting new capabilities into the market, while ensuring that we maximise the performance of this global team.
About the MCO SaaS Platform
Our compliance platform helps companies reduce their risk of misconduct. Our SAAS-based platform lets compliance professionals demonstrate that they are proactively managing the regulated activities of employees, third-party vendors, and other agents of the firm. Available as a unified suite or à la carte, our easy-to-use and extensible SaaS-based solutions get clients up and running quickly and cost-efficiently. We’ve built our passion and proficiency for compliance automation into every product, enabling clients to use technology to minimize conduct risk.
About the Role
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As a Performance Lead/Performance Test Architect, you will oversee creating, executing, and managing performance testing methodologies and frameworks to assess software systems' performance, scalability, and dependability. You will work with cross-functional teams to establish performance requirements, create test plans, carry out tests, analyze findings, and make recommendations for performance improvement.
Responsibilities:
· Create and implement performance testing techniques, procedures, and frameworks that are adapted to unique project needs.
· Collaborate with stakeholders to define performance requirements, objectives, and success cri-teria for software systems.
· Develop comprehensive performance test plans that include test scenarios, workload models, test data, and environment configurations.
· Set up and maintain performance testing tools and infrastructure to emulate realistic user inter-actions and workload circumstances.
· Conduct performance tests, monitor system performance data, and analyse test findings to discover bottlenecks, performance issues, and opportunities for improvement.
· Collaborate with development teams to resolve performance issues, optimise code, and imple-ment performance enhancements.
· Develop and maintain performance testing best practices, standards, and guidelines for continu-ous improvement.
· Mentor and guide performance test engineers and other team members on performance testing techniques, tools, and methodologies.
· Stay current with industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in performance testing and optimisation.
· Understand how our customers use the applications and what performance expectations they have.
· Understand customer baseline SLA’s.
· Understand key contributors to poor performance and, with architects and development manag-ers, define a strategy to address necessary weaknesses.
Experiences and Skills
· Master's degree/Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field.
· Proven experience (12-14 years) as a Performance Test or similar role in performance testing and optimisation of complex software systems.
· Strong understanding of performance testing concepts, methodologies, and best practices.
· Proficiency in performance testing tools such as JMeter, Blaze meter, Load runner or similar.
· Experience with monitoring tools like New Relic for performance analysis or similar.
· Hands-on experience with performance tuning, profiling, and optimisation of web applications, APIs, databases, and distributed systems.
· Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
· Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, collaborative environment and manage multiple pri-orities.
Certifications:
· Certified Performance Testing Professional (CPTP)
· ISTQB Certified Tester – Performance Testing