interim Product Performance Testing Technician

Unilever; City of Westminster; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global company is seeking a Performance Test Expert to manage non-functional test requirements in the banking sector. As part of a hybrid team, you'll define test strategies, work with stakeholders, and ensure execution of test cycles focusing on performance, scalability, and disaster recovery. Ideal candidates have hands-on experience in non-functional testing within financial services and knowledge of tools like LoadRunner. This role is designed for those who appreciate collaborative environments and agile practices.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience in the preparation and execution of Non-Functional Testing, ideally within Financial Services.
• Knowledge of non-functional testing including performance, scalability, reliability, and disaster recovery.
• Experience with non-functional testing tools like Performance Center and LoadRunner.

Responsibilities

• Drive the definition and testing of non-functional requirements.
• Work with stakeholders to ensure requirements are defined and testable.
• Design and execute NFR testing cycles.

Skills

Non-Functional Testing

Performance Testing

Scalability Testing

Cloud

Java

Tools

LoadRunner

Selenium

Splunk

Job description

Performance Test Expert (NFT, Non-Functional Testing and Strategy) – Banking Client

Duration: 1 year | Rate: €600 per day | Location: London | Hybrid Working – 8 days onsite in the London office per month.

Role: As a specialist in non‑functional related testing, you will assist the squads in shaping and managing the Non‑Functional test requirements. Together with technical experts and analysts you will translate those requirements into a test strategy and ensure proper and timely preparation and execution in alignment with our Infrastructure & Security divisions. You will be part of a team of three NFT specialists where cross‑learning and collaboration are valued. The NFT domains to be covered by the team are: Disaster Recovery, Resilience, Microservices, Security, Alerting, Monitoring, Performance, and CPU Usage.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive the definition and testing of non‑functional requirements (NFRs) as part of the technology transformation (Java, Kafka, Linux, Cloud, API).
• Work closely with technical and business stakeholders to ensure non‑functional requirements are clearly defined and testable.
• Define and articulate the Non‑Functional Test Strategy.
• Design and execute NFR testing cycles, coordinating efforts with external teams until bottleneck resolution through root‑cause examination.
• Document test results and compile them into consolidated high‑level reports.

Requirements

• Hands‑on experience in the preparation and execution of Non‑Functional Testing, ideally within Financial Services.
• Knowledge of non‑functional testing including performance, scalability, reliability, failover/disaster recovery, and accessibility testing.
• Experience with testing tools such as Performance Center / LoadRunner, ADS, Selenium, Xray, and Splunk.
• Experience working within large‑scale and complex technology implementations or change.
• Experience writing clear, concise, and comprehensive non‑functional test approaches, plans, and cases.
• Technical strength to translate requirements to technical experts at the level of security and/or infrastructure.
• Ability to translate test results into understandable language for non‑specialists and advise the business, design, infrastructure, and development teams on resolution priorities.
• Hands‑on experience with agile development practices, DevOps pipelines, continuous integration / deployment, and test automation.

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