Senior Performance Test Engineer (Remote, UK)

Public Sector Resourcing, managed by AMS; Newport; Remote; GBP 48,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) is seeking a Senior Manual Tester for a contract role (INSIDE IR35), based in the UK with remote work and occasional travel to the Newport office.

You will establish repeatable performance testing approaches, define benchmarks, develop reusable assets and scripts, and identify opportunities to automate tests within delivery pipelines while ensuring security clearance is in place.

Qualifications

• Experience with performance testing tools such as Locust or JMeter.
• Strong Python scripting ability.
• SQL analysis and optimization of PostgreSQL queries.
• Experience working in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Kubernetes.

Responsibilities

• Establish repeatable performance testing approaches and standards.
• Define performance benchmarks and acceptance criteria for key platforms.
• Support performance assurance for future onboarding and service changes.
• Develop reusable test assets, scripts and frameworks.
• Identify opportunities to automate performance testing within delivery pipelines.
• Support performance monitoring and evidence-based capacity planning.

Skills

Performance testing

Python scripting

SQL queries

Tools

Locust

JMeter

PostgreSQL

GCP

Kubernetes

Job description

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) is seeking a Senior Manual Tester for a contract role (INSIDE IR35), based in the UK with remote work and occasional travel to the Newport office.

You will establish repeatable performance testing approaches, define benchmarks, develop reusable assets and scripts, and identify opportunities to automate tests within delivery pipelines while ensuring security clearance is in place.