Senior Performance Tester

Salt; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Salt in Melbourne is seeking a Performance Tester to design, develop and run performance and load tests across applications, APIs, data and infrastructure. The role focuses on understanding system behavior under load, identifying bottlenecks, and improving scalability to support high volumes.

You will collaborate with engineering, delivery and operations teams, contribute to capacity planning, and help embed performance testing into CI/CD pipelines using Gatling and AWS-based tooling.

Qualifications

• Strong commercial experience in Performance Engineering / Performance Testing.
• Hands-on experience with Gatling.
• Strong experience working with AWS / public cloud.
• Experience developing quality code and working with software development practices.
• CI/CD experience, ideally with Jenkins and/or GitHub.
• Good understanding of Unix/Linux environments.
• Ability to deep-dive into technical issues and drive resolution.
• 4+ years' experience in performance engineering.

Responsibilities

• Design and execute performance and load testing strategies.
• Develop and maintain performance test scripts and tooling.
• Analyse system behaviour across applications, APIs, data and infrastructure.
• Identify performance issues, bottlenecks and scalability risks.
• Work closely with engineering, delivery and operational teams.
• Contribute to capacity planning and usage modelling.
• Support the development of highly scalable, resilient and recoverable systems.
• Help develop performance engineering capability across the wider technology organisation.
• Integrate performance testing into CI/CD pipelines.

Skills

Gatling

AWS

CI/CD

Linux

Problem solving

Deep-dive debugging

4+ years experience

Tools

Gatling

AWS

Jenkins

GitHub

Linux

Python

JMeter

Job description

Performance Tester | AWS + Gatling | Melbourne

I’m currently recruiting for an exciting Performance Engineer opportunity with a high-volume digital organisation in Melbourne.

This is a great opportunity for a performance engineer who enjoys going beyond simply running tests — getting into how systems behave under load, identifying bottlenecks, improving scalability and helping engineering teams build highly resilient platforms.

What you’ll be doing

• Design and execute performance and load testing strategies
• Develop and maintain performance test scripts and tooling
• Analyse system behaviour across applications, APIs, data and infrastructure
• Identify performance issues, bottlenecks and scalability risks
• Work closely with engineering, delivery and operational teams
• Contribute to capacity planning and usage modelling
• Support the development of highly scalable, resilient and recoverable systems
• Help develop performance engineering capability across the wider technology organisation
• Integrate performance testing into CI/CD pipelines

What we\'re looking for

• Strong commercial experience in Performance Engineering / Performance Testing
• Hands-on experience with Gatling
• Strong experience working with AWS / public cloud
• Experience developing quality code and working with software development practices
• CI/CD experience, ideally with Jenkins and/or GitHub
• Good understanding of *nix/Linux environments
• Ability to deep-dive into technical issues and drive resolution
• 4+ years\' experience in performance engineering

Nice to have:

• Python
• AWS CloudFormation
• JMeter or other performance testing tools
• SQL
• Log analysis / monitoring tools

This isn’t a traditional QA role. You\'ll have the opportunity to work across the full technology stack, influence how systems are designed for scale, and play a key role in ensuring platforms can handle significant and unpredictable volumes.

If you\'re a Performance Engineer with strong AWS and Gatling experience and you\'re open to hearing about something new, I\'d love to have a chat.