Queen Square Recruitment
Performance Test Engineer
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Performance Test Engineer
💰 £400/day (Inside IR35)
📍 Glasgow (3 days per week onsite)
📅 6-Month Contract
Our client is looking for experienced Performance Test Engineers to support the performance, scalability, stability and reliability of business-critical applications and platforms. This is a hands-on role requiring strong LoadRunner / Performance Center expertise and end-to-end ownership of performance testing, from requirements and workload modelling through scripting, execution, monitoring, bottleneck analysis and reporting.
Key Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end performance testing for assigned applications and platforms.
- Gather and analyse non-functional/performance requirements.
- Define workload models and prepare performance test plans and strategies.
- Create and maintain performance test scripts using LoadRunner / Performance Center.
- Develop scripts across Web HTTP/HTML, TruClient and Web Services protocols.
- Prepare test data and execute load, stress, scalability and performance tests.
- Monitor applications and infrastructure during test execution.
- Analyse results and identify application, integration and infrastructure performance bottlenecks.
- Capture and report key performance metrics, risks and issues.
- Produce performance test summary reports and daily/weekly status reporting.
- Work with development, architecture, infrastructure and business teams to resolve performance issues.
- Establish and maintain performance testing frameworks, standards and best practices.
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Essential Skills
- 8–12 years' hands-on Performance / Non-Functional Testing experience.
- Strong hands-on expertise with Micro Focus/OpenText LoadRunner and Performance Center.
- Strong performance test scripting experience using Web HTTP/HTML, TruClient and Web Services.
- End-to-end experience across requirements, workload modelling, planning, scripting, execution, monitoring and results analysis.
- Strong experience identifying and analysing performance bottlenecks.
- Experience with APM/monitoring tools such as Dynatrace or AppDynamics.
- Knowledge of integration technologies such as MuleSoft, Mule ESB and/or TIBCO.
- Experience establishing performance testing frameworks and standards.
- Performance testing experience across both cloud and legacy environments.
- Strong understanding of performance, scalability, stability and reliability testing.
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Desirable Skills
- Experience working within Agile delivery teams.
- Banking, financial services or other large enterprise experience.
- Strong stakeholder management and workshop facilitation skills.
- Confident working directly with UK-based customers and technical stakeholders.
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