Performance Test Engineer - Hybrid (London/Leeds)

Peregrine; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Peregrine is seeking an experienced Performance Test Engineer to lead performance testing across cloud, hybrid and on-premises environments. You will identify bottlenecks, analyse system behaviour and drive performance improvements with modern tooling.

You will work with Grafana, Splunk, New Relic and Dynatrace, building robust test scripts with JMeter, Gatling or LoadRunner while collaborating with developers and architects to ensure scalable, reliable platforms.

Qualifications

• Experience in Performance Testing or Performance Engineering.
• Ability to design, execute and analyse performance, load, stress and volume tests.
• Knowledge of performance testing methodologies and tools such as JMeter, LoadRunner, Eggplant or Gatling.

Responsibilities

• Design, execute and analyse performance, load, stress and volume tests against complex applications and platforms.
• Develop performance testing strategies and define Non-Functional Requirements.
• Identify system bottlenecks and investigate complex performance issues with actionable recommendations.
• Use monitoring and observability tooling (Grafana, Splunk) to understand performance.
• Utilise diagnostics tools (New Relic, Dynatrace) to investigate issues.
• Collaborate with developers and engineers to troubleshoot performance at scale.
• Develop and maintain performance test scripts using tools like JMeter, Gatling, or LoadRunner.
• Conduct performance testing across cloud architectures (Azure, AWS, GCP).
• Support performance engineering in containerised environments (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Integrate performance testing into CI/CD pipelines and drive testing process improvements.
• Communicate findings and risks clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Skills

Performance Testing

Load Testing

CI/CD

Observability

Stakeholder comms

Cloud Platforms

Automation scripting

Problem Solving

Tools

JMeter

LoadRunner

Gatling

Grafana

Splunk

New Relic

Dynatrace

Docker

Kubernetes

Azure

AWS

GCP

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Kafka

IBM MQ

Databricks

ELK

Tableau

Job description

Peregrine is seeking an experienced Performance Test Engineer to lead performance testing across cloud, hybrid and on-premises environments. You will identify bottlenecks, analyse system behaviour and drive performance improvements with modern tooling.

You will work with Grafana, Splunk, New Relic and Dynatrace, building robust test scripts with JMeter, Gatling or LoadRunner while collaborating with developers and architects to ensure scalable, reliable platforms.