Performance Engineering Lead - Scale & Production Readiness

Scrumconnect Limited; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Scrumconnect Consulting in London, United Kingdom, is seeking a Lead Performance Test Engineer to own end-to-end performance testing and assurance across complex digital services. The role acts as the performance authority, defining strategy, leading delivery, and providing formal recommendations on production readiness.

You will lead performance testing for large-scale systems, drive CI/CD integration, and mentor teams, with emphasis on governance, observability, and risk management in

Qualifications

• Extensive experience leading performance testing for large-scale systems.
• Strong background in performance engineering, not just tool execution.
• Experience with cloud platforms, especially AWS.
• Familiarity with governance and assurance in regulated environments.

Responsibilities

• Own the performance testing strategy for assigned services or programmes.
• Lead volumetric analysis, performance risk assessment, and test scoping.
• Define entry/exit criteria, success measures, and acceptance recommendations.
• Provide performance engineering expertise, including architectural input.
• Lead and coordinate load, stress, soak, and scalability testing activities.
• Oversee integration of performance testing into CI/CD pipelines.
• Analyse results and lead root-cause analysis of systemic performance issues.
• Produce and sign off Test Completion Reports and readiness assessments.

Job description

Scrumconnect Consulting in London, United Kingdom, is seeking a Lead Performance Test Engineer to own end-to-end performance testing and assurance across complex digital services. The role acts as the performance authority, defining strategy, leading delivery, and providing formal recommendations on production readiness.

You will lead performance testing for large-scale systems, drive CI/CD integration, and mentor teams, with emphasis on governance, observability, and risk management in