Sr Specialist, Performance Test Engineer - Enterprise Delivery Enablement

Your opportunity

At Charles Schwab, our purpose is simple: we championclients’goals with passion and integrity. Guided by honesty, mutualrespectand a commitment to doingwhat’sright, we bring innovation, education, and service together to help shape financial futures. Our people are the foundation of our success – they approach their work with curiosity and collaboration, coming together to create solutions that make a meaningful impact for clients and communities. As we expand into India, we are bringing this same culture of inclusion, learning, and opportunity to new talent. Joining us means becoming part of a global team where your work matters and your future can take shape. 

Our Hyderabad location is central to Schwab’s growth, bringing together talented people and technology to drive innovation,scale,and efficiency. Here, you will work alongside teams who create solutions that support millions of clients every day. The work you do is more than daily operations –it’sa chance to experiment, learn, and build within avalue–driven, supportive environment. This is a unique opportunity to be part of our early growth phase and shape something new, backed by the stability and strength of a Fortune 500 company. Your impact begins on day one, and your contributions will help define our future in the region 

We are seeking a skilled and driven Performance Test Engineer to help ensure the scalability, reliability, and resilience of Schwab’s critical applications and platforms. In this role, you will partner closely with application development, quality engineering, infrastructure, and product teams to design and execute performance testing strategies that reduce risk and improve client experience. You will work on complex, enterprise-grade systems and play a key role in identifying bottlenecks early, optimizing application performance, and enabling high-confidence releases across distributed environments. This is an exciting opportunity for an engineer who enjoys combining technical depth, analytical thinking, and collaboration to solve challenging performance and capacity problems at scale.

• • • KeyResponsibilities:

      • Design, develop, and maintain end-to-end performance test solutions for web, API, distributed, and microservices-based applications using modern performance engineering tools and frameworks.
      • Analyze business and non-functional requirements to define workload models, performance test scenarios, entry and exit criteria, and measurable service-level objectives.
      • Build and execute load, stress, endurance, spike, and capacity tests to validate application responsiveness, stability, throughput, and scalability under expected and peak conditions.
      • Create reusable test scripts, parameterization, correlation, data preparation, environment configuration, and reporting assets to support repeatable and efficient performance test execution.
      • Monitor application, infrastructure, database, and network behavior during test runs; identify bottlenecks, memory leaks, thread contention, latency issues, and resource saturation points.
      • Collaborate with developers, architects, DevOps, and platform teams to troubleshoot performance issues, recommend tuning opportunities, and validate remediation fixes.
      • Integrate performance testing into CI/CD pipelines and engineering workflows to enable earlier detection of performance regressions and support continuous quality practices.
      • Design, script, and execute load, stress, endurance, and scalability tests using tools such as JMeter and LoadRunner.
      • Build and maintain performance test scripts for both legacy distributed systems and microservices running on Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF).
      • Validate performance in hybrid architectures involving on prem systems, messaging layers, APIs, and cloud deployed services.
      • Use APM and monitoring tools (AppD, Splunk) to isolate bottlenecks in on prem systems, PCF hosted services, and integration points.
      • Conduct deep dive diagnostics across the stack: application code, JVM/CLR, database calls, queues, caches, and network paths.
      • Partner with senior engineers and architects when legacy constraints require creative performance tuning solutions.
      • Work cross functionally with development, QA, SRE, and architecture teams to ensure performance considerations are built into the SDLC.
      • Enhance performance testing automation, integrating scenarios into CI/CD pipelines across both on prem and PCF continuous delivery workflows.
      • Deliver clear, actionable performance reports illustrating system behavior across legacy and cloud environments.
      • Produce clear dashboards, reports, and executive summaries that communicate test coverage, risks, findings, trends, and release readiness recommendations.
      • Support environment readiness, test data management, and coordination across dependent systems to ensure successful execution of enterprise-scale performance tests.
      • Contribute to performance engineering standards, tooling improvements, governance practices, and team enablement through knowledge sharing, documentation, and continuous improvement.

What you have

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical discipline.

• 3–5 years of hands-on experience in performance testing, performance engineering, or quality engineering with a focus on non-functional testing.

• 3-5 years of hands-on experience and proficiency with performance testing tools such as JMeter, BlazeMeter, LoadRunner, NeoLoad or equivalent.

• 3-5 years of experience and strong understanding of performance test types including load, stress, endurance, spike, scalability, and capacity testing.

• Experience designing workload models, test strategies, and performance benchmarks based on business usage patterns and non-functional requirements.

• 3-5 years of experience and solid understanding of web technologies, APIs, distributed systems, and microservices architectures, including REST and asynchronous integrations.

• Strong scripting or programming skills in at least one language such as Java, JavaScript, Python, or C# for test development and automation.

• Experience analyzing performance metrics across application, JVM/runtime, database, server, and infrastructure layers using monitoring and observability tools.

• Working knowledge of databases and SQL, with the ability to validate data behavior and investigate performance issues across relational or NoSQL platforms.

• Experience with monitoring/diagnostic tools: AppD, Splunk, or similar.

• Strong programming skills in Java, Python, or C#. Shell scripting (Bash, PowerShell) for automation.

• Experience working with legacy on prem distributed systems (Linux and Windows servers), including troubleshooting performance across multi-tier architectures.

• Practical experience deploying, testing, or tuning applications on Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF).

• Familiarity with Linux/Unix environments, command-line tools, and basic system administration concepts relevant to test execution and diagnostics.

• Experience integrating tests into CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Bamboo, Maven, or Gradle.

• Strong problem-solving, analytical, and troubleshooting skills with the ability to translate findings into actionable recommendations.

• Effective written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to present technical findings to engineering teams and stakeholders.

• Experience working in Agile delivery environments and collaborating across development, QA, product, and operations teams.

PreferredQualifications:

• 3-5 years of experience with cloud-native performance testing across AWS, Azure, GCP, or platform services such as Kubernetes and containerized environments.

• 3-5 years of experience APM and observability platforms such as Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, or similar tools.

• 3-5 years of experience and working knowledge of databases and tuning for example Oracle and SQL Server

• 3-5 years of experience ofInternet protocols and technologies (HTTP, TCP/IP, DNS, FTP)

• Familiarity with messaging, event-driven systems, caching layers, and distributed data platforms.

• Exposure tofinancial services, high-volume transaction processing, or other highly regulated enterprise environments.

• Experience with service virtualization, test environment orchestration, and synthetic data generation for non-production testing.

• Knowledge of performance tuning techniques for application servers, databases, APIs, and middleware components.

• Experience building reusable performance engineering frameworks, reporting dashboards, or self-service utilities for broader team adoption.

• Understanding ofshift-left quality practices and integrating non-functional validation earlier in the software development lifecycle.

• Exposure to AI-assisted engineering tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or similar productivity solutions.

• Advanced degree or relevant performance testing certifications are a plus.