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About the Role We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Team Member, Test Automation & Performance Test Lead to join our team at RHB Bank. This role focuses on designing, executing, and managing performance and automation testing to ensure enterprise-class applications meet performance, scalability, and reliability standards. You will play a key role in strengthening application quality while supporting business and IT objectives. What you will be doing Assessment & Planning Collaborate with project teams, business analysts, and application teams to understand system requirements, workload models, SLAs, and performance expectations. Conduct feasibility studies for performance testing requirements and prepare assessment reports with cost/benefit justifications. Prepare effort estimations, resource plans, and test schedules for performance testing phases. Identify critical business transactions, performance risks, and peak workload scenarios for test planning. Develop and maintain the Performance Test Plan, conduct walkthroughs with stakeholders, and obtain formal sign-off. Script Design & Development Design, develop, and maintain performance test scripts and scenarios using industry-standard tools (e.g., LoadRunner, JMeter) covering web, API, database, and backend layers. Build and maintain workload models and test data strategies simulating real-world user behavior. Develop reusable and modular performance testing scripts to maximize efficiency. Customize and extend performance testing tools where required, including scripting protocols and reporting enhancements. Execution & Analysis Plan, coordinate, and execute load, stress, endurance, scalability, and failover tests in collaboration with project and infrastructure teams. Monitor system performance during test execution, capturing metrics across application, database, server, and network layers. Analyze test results to identify bottlenecks, constraints, and performance issues; collaborate with developers, DBAs, and infrastructure teams to drive resolution. Provide clear, actionable reports with performance insights, trends, and optimization recommendations to stakeholders. Track and manage defects and issues identified during performance tests until closure. Test Closure Maintain and update performance test artefacts, scripts, scenarios, and results in a central repository for reusability. Capture lessons learned, tuning recommendations, and best practices to continuously improve performance testing capabilities. Provide test closure reports with comparative performance baselines for future reference. Leadership & Continuous Improvement Stay current with emerging tools, technologies, and methodologies in performance testing and recommend adoption where beneficial. Mentor, coach, and upskill team members on performance testing frameworks, scripting, and analysis. Drive initiatives to reduce test cycle time, increase automation, and improve test efficiency across performance testing engagements. What we’re looking for Strong experience in performance and automation testing for enterprise applications. Expertise with performance testing tools such as LoadRunner, JMeter, or equivalent. Solid understanding of web, API, database, and backend performance layers. Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and reporting skills. Ability to mentor and guide junior team members and drive continuous improvement initiatives. What we offer At RHB Banking Group, we foster a collaborative and inclusive work environment that empowers employees to reach their full potential. We offer competitive remuneration, professional development opportunities, and a supportive culture that encourages growth and excellence. A mantra for our clients, customers, partners and every member of the RHB family. Yes, you. Our employees are one of the reasons we are here today. Dynamic, forward-thinking and progressive, there is a reason why we are an award-winning financial institution. Join us today and be a part of a winning family. At RHB, we take pride in our people and our teams. Great relationships built on trust, a 'leading it right' environment, challenging assignments and a culture of excellence are the pillars to the dynamic and diversified workplace we call home. As we grow towards realising our aspirations, we promise a workplace built on the five pillars – RHB Cares; RHB Leads; RHB Inspires; RHB Progresses; and RHB Rewards.