Performance Test Engineer

Role Summary

As a Performance Test Engineer, you'll join our Shared Technology organization, working in a cross-functional environment where innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement are part of everyday life.

You will design and execute performance testing strategies that help ensure ING's enterprise technology solutions remain fast, stable, and scalable under pressure. Working closely with engineers, architects, product partners, and platform teams, you'll contribute to performance engineering practices that support critical banking services across the organization.

About the Team

You will become part of ING Hubs Philippines, supporting enterprise technology initiatives across ING's global network. Our teams bring together diverse perspectives, collaborate across borders, and embrace a culture of continuous learning and shared success.

This is an opportunity to work alongside engineers, architects, and platform specialists while contributing to technologies that impact millions of customers worldwide.

What You'll Do

• Design, develop, and execute performance, load, stress, and endurance tests for enterprise applications and platforms.
• Build and maintain scalable performance test frameworks using Gatling and Java.
• Analyze application behavior, identify bottlenecks, and provide recommendations to improve performance and reliability.
• Collaborate closely with development, QA, infrastructure, and platform engineering teams throughout the software delivery lifecycle.
• Support performance engineering activities across large-scale distributed systems and cloud-based environments.
• Define and monitor performance benchmarks, KPIs, and service-level objectives.
• Contribute to performance testing best practices, standards, and automation strategies across the organization.
• Produce performance reports and present findings to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

What We're Looking For

Required Skills & Experience

• Proven experience as a Performance Test Engineer, Performance Engineer, or similar role.
• Strong hands-on experience with Gatling for performance and load testing.
• Strong proficiency in Java and/or JavaScript for scripting and test automation.
• Experience designing and executing load, stress, scalability, and endurance tests.
• Experience testing distributed systems and enterprise applications.
• Strong understanding of performance frameworks, workload modeling, and non-functional requirements (NFRs).
• Ability to analyze performance metrics, logs, and traces to identify bottlenecks and recommend optimizations.
• Knowledge of network protocols and their impact on performance, including HTTP, WebSockets, FTP, messaging protocols, and Kafka.
• Experience working with observability and monitoring tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, or similar platforms.
• Experience integrating performance testing into CI/CD pipelines, preferably using Azure DevOps.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.

Nice to Have

• Experience with additional performance testing tools such as JMeter and k6.
• Exposure to Docker, Kubernetes, and containerized environments.
• Experience working with cloud platforms and cloud-native architectures.
• Knowledge of messaging systems and event-driven architectures.
• Familiarity with payment and banking message formats such as pain, camt, and pacs.
• Strong understanding of JVM tuning, latency profiling, and application performance optimization.
• Experience testing high-volume, mission-critical systems in the banking, financial services, or payments domain.
• Experience defining and influencing performance standards, SLAs, and scalability strategies across engineering teams.

What We Offer

• Opportunities to collaborate with international teams across the ING network.
• A culture that encourages continuous learning and professional growth.
• Exposure to modern performance engineering practices and technologies.
• A diverse and inclusive workplace where your ideas are valued.
• The chance to influence performance engineering practices that impact thousands of users.

Worried about the wage gap? So are we. Our commitment to pay equity means you'll be valued for your skills, not your gender.

How to Apply

Interested in joining us? Click the apply button on our careers site and submit your application through Workday.

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About ING

With 65,000 employees and operations in approximately 40 countries, there is no shortage of opportunities for people with initiative who want to help people take a step ahead in life and in business.

Do you want to work at the cutting edge of what's possible and at the same time ensure you work with integrity and hold the customer's interests at heart? Do you want to be surrounded by progressive, inspiring, diverse, and supportive colleagues?

Then there is no better place to invest your talents than at ING. Join us. Apply today.