Performance Test Engineer
Job title: Performance Test Engineer (Load Runner Engineer)
Will the role be 100% remote, hybrid or 100% office? Hybrid 3 days/week
If the role is hybrid/ office based specify location: Glasgow, UK
Duration of assignment: 6 months contract InsideIR35
The Role
The Senior Performance Test Engineer is responsible for ensuring that applications and platforms meet performance, scalability, stability, and reliability requirements under expected and peak workload conditions. The role requires extensive experience with LoadRunner/Performance Centre, strong knowledge of performance testing methodologies, and the ability to work closely with business, architecture, development, and infrastructure teams to identify and mitigate performance risks early in the delivery lifecycle.
Key responsibilities
- Understands performance test requirements and prepare test plan
- Creates and updates performance test scripts and test data
- Able to conduct performance test execution and analyze the test results
- Able to identify Performance bottlenecks and effectively communicate the performance risks to respective project team
- Prepare Performance Test Summary report
- Identifies risk and issues, and develops effective mitigation and contingency plans
- Produces daily and weekly status reports
- Captures performance test metrics
- Responsible for keeping knowledge repositories up to date
- Responsible for end-to-end performance test delivery for assigned Applications
Key skills/knowledge/experience
Minimum 8 to 12 years of hands-on experience in delivering non-functional test engagements, covering requirement gathering, workload model preparation, test planning, scripting using Web HTTP/HTML, TruClient, and web services, test execution, monitoring, and in-depth performance results analysis.
Experience in Testing tools and technologies like Performance Centre, LoadRunner, MuleSoft, Tibco, Mule ESB, APM tools like Dynatrace/ App Dynamics.
Proven capability in setting up performance testing frameworks and standards
Hands-on experience delivering performance testing across both cloud based and legacy environment
Desirable skills/knowledge/experience
- Must have worked in Agile teams, should be well versed in agile framework
- Strong stakeholder management, workshop facilitation, and communication skills
- Good interpersonal and communication skills with team members and UK customers
