Performance Test Engineer

Brio Digital; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 83,000 - 92,000; Part time

Job summary

Brio Digital is seeking an experienced Performance Test Engineer to join a large-scale enterprise transformation programme, helping ensure performance, scalability and operational readiness of cloud-based services.

You’ll work with engineering, DevOps and QA to design and execute performance testing strategies, analyze system behavior under load and provide recommendations to improve resilience and user experience.

Qualifications

• Strong commercial experience delivering performance testing within enterprise environments.
• Hands-on expertise with JMeter.
• Experience testing applications hosted within AWS.
• Strong knowledge of performance, load, stress and endurance testing methodologies.
• Hands-on experience with monitoring and observability tools including Splunk, AppDynamics, Grafana, AWS CloudWatch and Dynatrace.
• Experience using Jenkins, GitHub, Jira and Confluence.
• Strong understanding of APIs, distributed systems and modern cloud architectures.
• Experience working within Agile delivery teams.
• Experience integrating performance testing into CI/CD pipelines.
• Knowledge of microservices and containerised environments.
• Previous experience working on large-scale digital transformation programmes.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and execute performance, load, stress and endurance tests across AWS-hosted applications.
• Create and maintain automated performance test scripts using JMeter.
• Carry out OAT to ensure services are production-ready.
• Analyse test results and work with development teams to resolve performance issues.
• Monitor application and infrastructure performance using monitoring tools.
• Produce detailed performance reports and communicate findings to stakeholders.
• Integrate performance testing into CI/CD pipelines and support continuous quality improvement.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams throughout the software delivery lifecycle.

Skills

Performance testing

APIs

Microservices

CI/CD

Agile delivery

JMeter

AWS

Monitoring

Tools

JMeter

AWS

Splunk

AppDynamics

Grafana

CloudWatch

Dynatrace

Jenkins

GitHub

Jira

Confluence

Job description

£475/day | Inside IR35 | Primarily Remote | Occasional Travel to London | Until 31st March 2027 | ASAP Start

*** MUST have NHS or Gov. Experience ***

We're looking for an experienced Performance Test Engineer to join a large-scale enterprise transformation programme, helping to ensure the performance, scalability and operational readiness of critical cloud-based services.

You’ll work closely with engineering, DevOps and QA teams to design and execute performance testing strategies, analyse system behaviour under load, and provide recommendations to improve application resilience and user experience.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop and execute performance, load, stress and endurance tests across AWS-hosted applications.
• Create and maintain automated performance test scripts using JMeter.
• Carry out Operational Acceptance Testing (OAT) to ensure services are production-ready.
• Analyse test results, identify bottlenecks and work with development teams to resolve performance issues.
• Monitor application and infrastructure performance using industry-standard monitoring tools.
• Produce detailed performance reports and communicate findings to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Integrate performance testing into CI/CD pipelines and support continuous quality improvement.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams throughout the software delivery lifecycle.

Skills & Experience

• Strong commercial experience delivering performance testing within enterprise environments.
• Hands‑on expertise with JMeter.
• Experience testing applications hosted within AWS.
• Strong knowledge of performance, load, stress and endurance testing methodologies.
• Hands‑on experience with monitoring and observability tools including:
• Splunk
• AppDynamics
• Grafana
• AWS CloudWatch
• Dynatrace
• Experience using Jenkins, GitHub, Jira and Confluence.
• Strong understanding of APIs, distributed systems and modern cloud architectures.
• Experience working within Agile delivery teams.
• Experience integrating performance testing into CI/CD pipelines.
• Knowledge of microservices and containerised environments.
• Previous experience working on large-scale digital transformation programmes.