Performance test lead

Synergy Solutions International Limited; City Of London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A consulting firm in London is looking for a Performance Test Lead with over 5 years of experience in Performance Engineering. The role involves benchmarking large scale systems, API testing and performance problem determination. A bachelor's degree is preferred. The salary ranges from £30,000 to £45,000 per year, with a full-time schedule from Monday to Friday. The candidate must be able to commute or relocate to London.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Performance Engineering and Benchmarking.
• Experienced with JMeter, Loadrunner, and SilkPerformer.
• Hands-on experience with API/web services testing.

Responsibilities

• Adhere to standards during testing phases.
• Identify performance issues in live systems.
• Create and maintain performance test scripts.
• Evaluate and optimize performance tools.

Skills

Performance Engineering

Benchmarking Large Scale systems

JMeter

Loadrunner

API Testing

Monitoring tools

Performance problem determination

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Postman

SoapUI

Logic Monitor

App Dynamics

Job description

Synergy Solutions International Limited is a London-based Consultancy firm providing IT expertise and services as part of Software as a Service (SaaS) working model. We aim to provide affordable and efficient software expertise to individuals, start-ups, small businesses, and bigger firms. As part of serving clients with dependable and up-to-date technical expertise in the ever-changing and dynamic software world, Synergy Solutions International is now growing their team.

Job Description

Performance Test Lead

Key Skills & Experience

• Minimum of 5+ years of experience in Performance Engineering and Benchmarking Large Scale systems and applications with skill in modeling the system under load and tuning the end of the technology stack
• Experience in working with different protocols using performance test tools like JMeter, Loadrunner, and SilkPerformer.
• Knowledge of API/web services testing tools, such as Postman, SoapUl.
• Good working experience in monitoring tools (Logic Monitor/App Dynamics)
• Experience in analyzing Thread dumps and Memory dumps for bottlenecks

Key Accountabilities:

• Adhere to standards and best practices throughout the testing phases of the software development lifecycle and any testing stages of any development project
• Experienced in pinpointing performance issues in live systems.
• Strong understanding of performance testing E2E (Workload modeling/Execution/Report analysis/Recommendations for improvement)
• Experience in identifying test conditions and scenarios from design documents and writing scripts to test the scenarios
• Hands-on experience in performance problem determination and root cause analysis.
• Develop Performance Test Plan
• Design Performance test scripts at the application level
• Execute and report Performance tests at different levels – identify and analyze bottlenecks by profiling and provide performance tuning recommendations.
• Evaluate Performance tools and optimize them based on the use case
• Research and develop tools and frameworks to evaluate the performance of the applications
• Working with Product Owner and Business Analyst to refine and estimate requirements
• To examine business requirements
• To assess the service level agreement and their objectives
• To create, upgrade, and maintain the performance test scripts in line with business requirements.
• To document suitable test data that is representative of customer business practices.
• To carry out performance tests and apply consistent monitoring metrics
• Agree on all estimates and time schedules for the work allocated, with the Test Lead and communicate progress and changes promptly.
• To effectively escalate important issues affecting the testing process by reporting exceptions to the Test Lead.

Job Details

• Job Type: Full-time
• Salary: £30,000.00-£45,000.00 per year
• Schedule: Monday to Friday
• Ability to commute/relocate: LONDON: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
• Education: Bachelor's (preferred)
• Experience: Azure & M365 Security and Administration: 5 years (required)