About The Company

Fidelity Digital AssetsSM is dedicated to building products and services that help institutions adopt digital assets and innovate within the increasingly digital world of finance.

Fidelity Investments began researching blockchain technology and digital assets solutions more than seven years ago, resulting in the creation of a dedicated business for this innovative asset class, Fidelity Digital AssetsSM. Our years of research and development have provided us with the deep expertise necessary to educate our clients and remove the obstacles of investing in the digital asset market.

Job Short Description

The Role

The Principal Performance and Automation Engineer will be responsible for designing, developing, and driving performance tests using JMeter/Cloud-test/Rush-hour and other performance testing tools to ensure comprehensive performance testing. The person in this position is also responsible for designing and developing test strategies and ensuring high-quality scripts and performance tests. The role also includes solving performance issues, root cause analysis, and most importantly driving problems to appropriate solutions.

• Test technology solutions for the Fidelity Digital Assets℠ business.
• Testing and Automation for High Performance algorithms for trading / crypto trading
• Working closely with our business partners to chip into business critical initiatives
• Demonstrate testing trading platforms and automation of frontend and backend applications
• Collaborate with multiple partners/large multi-functional teams as part of work delivery
• Follows practices and chip in towards innovative solutions to enhance productivity
• Define Performance Test Strategy Document: set approach, metrics, benchmarks, baseline, user response requirements environments, technical environment and data conditions, and toolsets to use in driving the performance testing
• Design, implement, and maintain performance test frameworks, which will validate to a high degree of confidence, the production readiness of software applications and infrastructure for stability and performance
• Develop test execution scenarios for various types of tests such as load, stress, duration/endurance, and run them
• Create and publish Performance Test Result Report with recommendations on the quality improvement
• Prepare reports about the product/product component’s readiness for release to users
• Review and recommend improvements to existing test procedures
• Suggest new tools and techniques improve testing efficiency
• As needed, provide leadership and guidance to multiple onshore and/or offshore engineers supporting performance engineering and testing efforts by assigning tasks, receiving updates, removing blockers, and reporting progress to the rest of the Scrum team

The Expertise and Skills You Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field required
• At least 10 years of engineering experience
• Background in designing and developing solutions for Performance testing in low latency systems
• We look for proficiency in testing trading platforms
• Proficiency in JMeter/Cloud-test/Rush-hour and other performance testing tools
• We loom for proficiency in automation tools like Cypress, Cucumber, Serenity, Selenium, etc
• Experience with performance testing types: Load testing, Stress testing, Scalability testing, Spike testing, Volume testing, Endurance/Soak testing
• Proficiency in Regex, REST/SOAP
• Experience in test automation scripting using C, Java, Python and shell scripting
• Solid understanding of AWS services and experience setting up test environments on AWS (S3,EC2, RDS, etc.)
• Experience identifying memory leakage, connection issues & throughput bottlenecks in various technologies such as web application(s), infrastructure, and Cloud
• Hands on experience with one or more observability tools(Data-dog, Splunk, Kibana, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch, OpenTelemetry, etc)
• Knowledge and experience with Oracle, SQL , Postgres, Cockroach db and relational databases
• Knowledge in streaming database like KDB
• Experience and expertise in profiling and performance testing software
• Ability to drive mature delivery practices through automation
• Spirit and willingness to contribute to org level innovation
• A learning attitude and ability to demonstrate versatility in addition to your specialization.
• Agile methodologies or iterative development processes
• Excellent collaboration and Interpersonal skills
• Great attitude, being a mentor, teammate and effective contributor
• Experience in Capital markets or Crypto Currency specifically with exposure to Trading, Algo Trading is a plus
• Nice to have experience using kernel bypass e.g., Solarflare OpenOnLoad
• Nice to have experience with low latency messaging products, such as Aeron, Solace and 29West
• Nice to have Knowledge of FIX protocols