Specialist Automation Engineer, Actimize (Performance Engineering)

So, what’s the role all about?

Within Actimize, the X-Sight Next Gen teamis developing the next generation advanced cloud platform for building the solutions to fight Financial Crime. As part of the PaaS/SaaS development group, you will be responsible for improving business performance, increasing operational efficiency for the relevant platform services for Actimize cloud-based solutions and to work with cutting edge cloud technologies.

How will you make an impact?

NiCE Actimize is the largest and broadest provider of financial crime, risk and compliance solutions for regional and global financial institutions & has been consistently ranked as number one in the space
At NiCE Actimize, we recognize that all employees’ contributions are integral to our company’s growth and success. To find and acquire the best and brightest talent around the globe, we offer a challenging work environment, competitive compensation, and benefits, and rewarding career opportunities. Come share, grow and learn with us – you’ll be challenged, you’ll have fun, and you’ll be part of a fast growing, highly respected organization. This cloud-based platform will enable our customers (some of the biggest financial institutes around the world) to leverage solutions on this platform to fight financial crime.

Have you got what it takes?

• Understanding detail requirements for Functional, Non-Functional, and Usability to test SaaS based applications and backend services.

• Design and execute functional/performance test scenarios to assess scalability, responsiveness, and stability under various load conditions.

• Develop detailed functional/performance test cases covering critical scenarios. Conduct exploratory functional/performance testing to identify potential bottlenecks and areas for optimization.

• Automate performance test cases using tools like JMeter, Gatling, LoadRunner to enable efficient regression testing.

• Experience using and collecting performance test data from Prometheus, Grafana or any other performance analytic tools.

• Identify performance bottlenecks through performance profiling, monitoring, and analysis of system metrics.

• Develop performance benchmarks and conduct load, stress, and scalability tests to evaluate system performance

• Automating functional/performance tests on both API and UI.

• Work collaboratively with a large group of engineers from all disciplines within Engineering.

• Proactively investigating the performance issues and highlighting them.

• Respond to inquiries/requests around performance and availability coming from various teams within the organization.

• Actively involved in the testing Strategy, Approach, Planning.

• Contributing product design to ensure testability and robustness of products and features.

• Working closely with PM and Developers to deliver high quality releases for production.

• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to troubleshoot application and environmental issues.

• Work and collaborate in multi-disciplinary Agile teams, adopting Agile spirit, methodology and tools.

Qualifications:

• BE/BTech/MS in CS or equivalent educational degree

• 8-12 years of hands-on experience in performance engineering for enterprise-grade applications

• Hands-on experience with performance testing tools (e.g., Apache JMeter, LoadRunner, Gatling, NeoLoad or similar)

• Deep understanding of profiling and tuning JVM-based applications (Java, Scala, Kotlin) or other modern runtime environments

• Hands-on experience with database performance tuning (SQL query optimization, indexing, partitioning, caching, replication strategies)

• Expertise in analyzing CPU, memory, disk, and network performance in distributed systems

• Strong understanding of multi-threading, concurrency, and memory management

• Experience with cloud-based performance optimization in AWS and containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes

• Experience with monitoring tools like Coralogix, Datadog, Grafana will be an added advantage

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with a deep understanding of system design

• Experience in working on Actimize solutions or in Anti Money Laundering, Case Management or Fraud Detection products will be an added advantage

• Familiar with CI/CD and experience with Jenkins, Artifactory and working knowledge in Docker will be an added advantage.

• Self-motivated and fast learner with a strong sense of ownership and drive

• Good interpersonal and communication skills; friendly disposition; work effectively as a team player
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively.

What’s in it for you?

Join an ever-growing, market disrupting, global company where the teams – comprised of the best of the best – work in a fast-paced, collaborative, and creative environment! As the market leader, every day at NICE is a chance to learn and grow, and there are endless internal career opportunities across multiple roles, disciplines, domains, and locations. If you are passionate, innovative, and excited to constantly raise the bar, you may just be our next NiCEr!

Enjoy NICE-FLEX!

At NiCE, we work according to the NiCE-FLEX hybrid model, which enables maximum flexibility: 2 days working from the office and 3 days of remote work, each week. Naturally, office days focus on face-to-face meetings, where teamwork and collaborative thinking generate innovation, new ideas, and a vibrant, interactive atmosphere.

Requisition ID: 9609
Reporting into: Tech Manager
Role Type: Specialist