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Role: Performance Test Lead
Type: Contract - Inside IR35
Location: Sheffield, UK
Responsibilities:
- Own and drive the overall Performance Non-Functional Testing capability across the program
- Define and maintain the Performance Non-Functional Testing strategy, roadmap, standards, and governance
- Lead testing initiatives covering load, stress, volume, resilience, failover, disaster recovery, and high availability scenarios
- Collaborate with Scrum teams, Architects, DevOps, Product Owners, and support teams to ensure scalable and resilient solutions
- Define test coverage, environments, tooling strategy, resource planning, and test execution approaches
- Evaluate, recommend, and implement Performance Testing tools and frameworks
- Deliver Performance Non-Functional Testing for cloud-native and cloud-hosted applications
- Monitor, analyze, and report performance KPIs, bottlenecks, risks, and quality metrics
- Analyze logs, monitoring data, profilers, and system statistics to identify performance issues and remediation opportunities
- Manage end-to-end defect tracking, reporting, and resolution activities
- Integrate Performance Testing into CICD pipelines and automated testing frameworks
- Validate disaster recovery, failover, audit logging, operational readiness, and compliance requirements
- Produce dashboards, reports, presentations, and test readiness assessments for stakeholders
- Mentor and lead Performance Testing engineers and drive testing best practices
- Establish Performance Testing standards, governance frameworks, and continuous improvement initiatives
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Requirements:
- Extensive experience delivering Performance Non-Functional Testing in complex enterprise environments
- Expertise in Load Testing, Stress Testing, Volume Testing, Resilience Testing, Failover Testing, High Availability Testing, and Disaster Recovery Testing
- Experience defining Performance Testing strategies, environments, risks, tooling, and governance
- Strong knowledge of cloud-based testing approaches, particularly GCP environments
- Experience working in Agile and Waterfall delivery methodologies
- Strong understanding of application architecture, integrations, and distributed systems
- Expertise with JMeter, Gatling, LoadRunner, NeoLoad, or similar testing tools
- Experience testing cloud-native, containerized, and serverless applications
- Strong coding and scripting skills using Python, Java, Scala, or similar technologies
- Experience with database performance tuning, query optimization, and monitoring
- Experience testing Graph Databases, Neo4j, and graph platform technologies
- Knowledge of event-driven architectures, messaging systems, and throughput testing
- Experience with API Testing, API Gateway Testing, ETL Testing, Test Data Generation, and Mocking
- Understanding of Infrastructure as Code (IaC), GitOps, DevOps, and CICD practices
- Familiarity with ServiceNow, Active Directory, AWS, Azure, and GCP integrations
- Good understanding of security vulnerabilities, compliance testing, and operational acceptance testing
- Strong leadership, mentoring, stakeholder management, and communication skills


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