Synechron
Lead Performance Test Engineer
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About Company
Synechron is a global technology consulting firm that helps leading organizations accelerate digital transformation through innovation, expertise, and agility. With more than 16,500 professionals across around 60 offices in over 20 countries, we combine deep industry knowledge with advanced capabilities in AI, cloud, cybersecurity, and data engineering. Our regional teams, supported by strategic delivery centers, provide scalable, cost-efficient solutions tailored to local markets. Through our award-winning Synechron FinLabs accelerators and strategic partnerships with AWS, Microsoft, Databricks, Salesforce, and ServiceNow, we enable clients to innovate fast and lead with confidence. For more information on the company, please visit our website or LinkedIn community.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Diversity & Inclusion are fundamental to our culture, and Synechron is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative-action employer. Our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiative ‘Same Difference’ is committed to fostering an inclusive culture – promoting equality, diversity and an environment that is respectful to all. We strongly believe that a diverse workforce helps build stronger, successful businesses as a global company. We encourage applicants from across diverse backgrounds, race, ethnicities, religion, age, marital status, gender, sexual orientations, or disabilities to apply. We empower our global workforce by offering flexible workplace arrangements, mentoring, internal mobility, learning and development programs, and more. All employment decisions at Synechron are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to the applicant’s gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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Job Description
We’re looking for a Performance & Non-Functional Testing Lead to shape and lead the testing strategy for large-scale, cloud-based platforms. This is a high-impact role where you’ll define how performance, resilience, failover, disaster recovery, and operational readiness are tested across a complex enterprise environment. If you have deep expertise in performance engineering, cloud platforms (especially GCP), and non-functional testing across distributed systems, this is an opportunity to lead from the front and influence quality across a major transformation programme.
Key Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end Performance & Non-Functional Testing capability across the programme
- Define and drive the testing strategy, roadmap, standards, and governance
- Plan and execute testing across load, stress, volume, failover, high availability, resilience, disaster recovery, and operational readiness
- Translate non-functional requirements into measurable test outcomes and KPIs
- Collaborate with engineering, architecture, DevOps, product, and support teams to embed testing into delivery pipelines
- Analyse bottlenecks using logs, profilers, monitoring tools, and system metrics
- Deliver clear risk-based reporting, dashboards, defect analysis, and release readiness updates
- Recommend tooling, environments, and resourcing strategies, including proof of concepts for new tools
- Ensure testing is integrated into CI/CD pipelines
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Required Skills
- Proven experience leading Performance & Non-Functional Testing in large, complex enterprise environments
- Strong hands-on experience in load, stress, volume, failover, disaster recovery, high availability, and resilience testing
- Expertise with tools such as JMeter, Gatling, LoadRunner, NeoLoad, or similar
- Experience testing cloud-native, containerised, and serverless applications, ideally on GCP
- Strong coding/scripting skills in Python, Java, Scala, Cypher, or similar
- Experience with database performance analysis, tuning, connection pooling, and monitoring
- Exposure to graph databases such as Neo4j
- Understanding of message queues, throughput, ingestion, and event-driven systems
- Hands-on experience with API testing, batch/ETL testing, test data generation, and mocking
- Strong stakeholder communication and team leadership capability
Nice to Have
- Experience with IAM / Identity & Access Management
- Exposure to GitLab CI/CD, GitOps, DevSecOps, and policy-as-code
- Knowledge of AppDynamics, Datadog, GCP Monitoring, or similar APM tools
- Experience with Pub/Sub, MQ technologies, SaaS testing, and Kubernetes/Docker performance
- Familiarity with ServiceNow, Active Directory, AWS, and Azure integrations.
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