Performance Test Engineer Lead

Preservica; Oxford; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading company as a Performance Test Engineer Lead, where you'll strategize and implement performance testing for high-performing applications. This role offers the chance to mentor junior team members while ensuring robust performance across our systems. With a competitive salary and a focus on personal development, this is an opportunity to grow in a fast-paced environment.

Benefits

Annual Training Allowance

Career Development Opportunities

Competitive Salary

Benefits Package

Qualifications

• Expertise in performance testing tools and monitoring solutions.
• Ability to script in Python, Bash, or Java.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement performance testing plans.
• Develop automated performance testing suites.
• Conduct performance analysis and troubleshoot issues.

Skills

Performance Testing

Monitoring Tools

Scripting

Education

Performance Testing Certifications

Tools

JMeter

Grafana

AWS CloudWatch

Jenkins

Docker

Job description

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About The Role

Can you help us to double in size? Do you understand the demands of scaling up an enterprise SaaS solution? Are you ready for the challenge of delivering the worlds fastest-growing Active Digital Preservation solution, knowing that it is safeguarding the worlds most precious digital assets?

About The Role

Can you help us to double in size? Do you understand the demands of scaling up an enterprise SaaS solution? Are you ready for the challenge of delivering the worlds fastest-growing Active Digital Preservation solution, knowing that it is safeguarding the worlds most precious digital assets?

We are Preservica, and we are changing the way organisations safeguard their digital information.

Our projects are at the razor’s edge of commercial software solutions addressing the need for smart digital preservation technologies. As a world-leader in digital preservation, our award-winning software is used by leading businesses, archives, libraries, museums and government organisations across the globe.

We are growing at pace, and to maintain our cadence we believe in hiring strong technical talent and then supporting that talent to grow with us. Our offices are in Abingdon but this Performance Test Engineer Lead role could be either office based or hybrid with monthly office days. You should live within reasonable commute of Abingdon.

Job Opportunity

The Role

Working as part of our Software Quality team, you will play a key role in strategising, implementing, and optimising performance testing for our systems, ensuring robust, scalable, and high-performing applications. This is a hands-on position requiring both technical expertise and the ability to mentor junior team members while driving improvements in performance testing practices across the business.

Key Tasks and Responsibilities

• Design and implement detailed performance testing plans, including load, stress, endurance, and scalability testing.
• Develop and maintain automated performance testing suites using tools like JMeter, Gatling, NeoLoad, LoadRunner or similar.
• Integrate automated performance tests into CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, TeamCity, or similar tools.
• Establish and maintain key performance metrics through baseline vs. benchmarking analysis.
• Conduct in-depth performance analysis using tools like Grafana, Prometheus, AWS CloudWatch, and Azure Insights.
• Work closely with engineers and operational teams to diagnose and troubleshoot performance issues.
  
  

What We Offer

As well as a competitive salary and benefits package, we also offer great future prospects in a fast-growing market sector. From improving your technical abilities to developing leadership skills, we can offer tailored career development based on your aspirations.

This is supported by our focus on personal development and training - all our staff have an annual training allowance, which can be used to learn new technologies, develop soft skills or earn recognised professional qualifications.

Preservica is an equal opportunity employer.

Essential Skills

Desired Experience:

• Expertise in performance testing tools, such as JMeter, Gatling, LoadRunner, etc.
• Hands-on use of monitoring tools, i.e. Prometheus, Grafana, AWS CloudWatch, or similar
• Experience with Jenkins, TeamCity, Kubernetes, Docker, RabbitMQ (or similar)
• Ability to script and modify solutions in Python, Bash, Java, etc.
• Experience with Playwright and TypeScript
• Relevant performance testing certifications or qualifications
  
  

Nice To Haves

• RDMS experience an advantage
• DevOps experience, Terraform and/or Ansible
• Cloud Experience AWS and/or Azure
• Line management experience
  
  

Step up as our Performance Test Engineer Lead! Help scale our cutting-edge digital preservation solution. Ready to make an impact? Apply now!

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Quality Assurance

• Industries

  IT Services and IT Consulting

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