Quality Engineering Lead (Performance & Reliability)

Create your best future and join Westpac as a Quality Engineering Lead – Performance and Reliability

UNITE is our business-led, tech-enabled transformation, and a key priority for the Group. UNITE is about delivering 'one best way' to make our processes, systems and tech simpler so we can deliver a better experience for our customers and make things easier for our people.

What’S The Role?

An exciting opportunity is available for a Quality Engineering Lead – Performance and Reliability, to join the Technology, Chief Transformation Office. The purpose of the role is to focus on shift-left performance engineering and resilience validation across critical banking journeys.

Drive performance and reliability engineering excellence across Westpac’s retail banking technology ecosystem. Establish performance engineering practices, define service level objectives (SLOs), and build chaos engineering capabilities.

What do I need?

• Expertise in performance engineering within large-scale environments.
• Expert-level proficiency in performance testing tools including JMeter, K6, Gatling.
• Strong understanding of microservices performance patterns and distributed system reliability.
• Extensive experience with APM tools including AppDynamics and Splunk.
• Proven track record of defining and implementing SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets.
• Strong analytical skills for performance bottleneck identification and optimization.
• Leadership capabilities for driving performance culture and influencing architecture decisions.
• Deep understanding of banking system requirements including transaction processing and compliance.

Why Join Us?

We’re obsessed with becoming our customers' #1 banking partner for life and we’re looking for people who are passionate about helping us achieve that goal. In return, we’re committed to making Westpac the best place to work in the country. Here are just a few of the ways we’re already doing that:

• Special offers on banking products and discounts from top brands, including generous employee-only mortgage rates!
• Flexible work arrangements to help you achieve a greater work/life balance, and a variety of leave options including Culture, Lifestyle and Wellbeing leave. 
• Tailored learning and development opportunities to help your grow your career within the bank. 
• Lots of opportunities to ‘give back’ to the Community by getting involved in our many volunteering initiatives.

Create your future today

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We’re all about creating a supportive and inclusive community. We welcome everyone – no matter your age, gender, background, or abilities. We also provide additional support to welcome our veterans, Indigenous Australians and neurodiverse community.

If you need any adjustments during the recruitment process, you can find out more information and additional contact details by visiting the "People with Disability and/or needing Accessibility Requirements" page on our website.

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