Lead Performance Testing Engineer – Cloud & NFR Strategy

Synechron; Sheffield; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Synechron is seeking a Performance & Non‑Functional Testing Lead to shape and lead testing strategy for large cloud platforms. You’ll define performance, resilience, DR and operational readiness testing across a complex enterprise environment.

Bring deep expertise in performance engineering, cloud platforms (GCP), and non‑functional testing to drive quality across a major transformation programme and lead from the front.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading Performance & Non‑Functional Testing in large, complex enterprise environments.
• Hands‑on experience with load, stress, volume, failover, DR, HA, and resilience testing.
• Familiarity with modern performance tools such as JMeter, Gatling, LoadRunner or NeoLoad.
• Experience testing cloud-native, containerised, and serverless apps on GCP.
• Strong scripting/programming skills in Python, Java, Scala, Cypher or similar.
• Knowledge of database performance tuning, connections, and monitoring.
• Exposure to graph databases like Neo4j.
• Understanding of message queues, throughput, ingestion, and event‑driven design.
• Experience API testing, batch/ETL testing, test data generation, and mocking.
• Strong stakeholder communication and team leadership capability.

Responsibilities

• Own end‑to‑end Performance & Non‑Functional Testing across the programme.
• Define and drive testing strategy, roadmap, standards, and governance.
• Plan and execute testing across load, stress, volume, failover, high availability, resilience, DR, and ops readiness.
• Translate non‑functional requirements into measurable test outcomes and KPIs.
• Collaborate with engineering, architecture, DevOps, product, and support to embed testing.
• Analyse bottlenecks using logs, profilers, monitoring tools and metrics.
• Deliver risk‑based reporting, dashboards, defect analysis, and release readiness updates.
• Recommend tooling, environments, and resourcing strategies, including PoCs for new tools.
• Ensure testing is integrated into CI/CD pipelines.

Skills

Performance testing lead

Load & resilience testing

Performance tools

Cloud testing (GCP)

Programming

DB performance

Neo4j exposure

Event-driven systems

API/ETL testing

Stakeholder leadership

Tools

JMeter

Gatling

LoadRunner

NeoLoad

Job description

Synechron is seeking a Performance & Non‑Functional Testing Lead to shape and lead testing strategy for large cloud platforms. You’ll define performance, resilience, DR and operational readiness testing across a complex enterprise environment.

Bring deep expertise in performance engineering, cloud platforms (GCP), and non‑functional testing to drive quality across a major transformation programme and lead from the front.