Senior Software Performance Test Engineer

Royal London; Alderley Edge; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

28 days annual leave

Employer pension matching

Private medical insurance

Job summary

Royal London is seeking an expert Software Performance Test Engineer to help shape a state-of-the-art investments platform from Alderley Park in a hybrid role.

You will develop performance tests with LoadRunner and JMeter, design automated suites with data priming, and monitor through Grafana within an Agile delivery environment.

This long-term opportunity in the Chief Operating Office focuses on operational excellence, quality, and risk mitigation while mentoring others.

Qualifications

• Expert in developing performance test platforms using LoadRunner or JMeter.
• Strong coding in TypeScript or Java with good software engineering standards.
• Experience designing automated test suites with data priming.
• Experience with Grafana for performance monitoring.
• Knowledge of GraphQL and REST web services.
• Experience with MongoDB and Oracle.
• Experience in Agile delivery environments.
• Attention to detail with focus on quality, reliability and risk mitigation.
• Self-motivated and able to mentor others.
• Committed to testing best practices and innovation.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain performance test platforms.
• Design and implement automated test suites with data priming.
• Monitor system performance using Grafana and other tools.
• Collaborate in an Agile delivery setting across teams.
• Mentor colleagues and promote testing standards and best practices.

Skills

TypeScript

Java

Agile

Automation design

Performance testing

Tools

LoadRunner

JMeter

Grafana

MongoDB

Oracle

GraphQL

REST

Job description

Contract type: Permanent
Location:Alderley Park
Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based

We have a unique opportunity to offer roles within the Chief Operating Office that will help shape the future of Royal London, across several disciplines.

Our Chief Operating Office (COO) works across Royal London to help deliver the Group's strategic ambitions. We work in partnership to deliver operational excellence, drive innovation, enhance customer experience, and protect our business from threats impacting our industry.

We are seeking expertly skilled and experienced Software Performance Test Engineer to play a central role in building amazing digital solutions for our customers and business users. The team will be focussed on delivering a new state-of-the-art investments platform, an undertaking that is expected to take several years.

About the role

• We are forming new engineering capability in our Alderley Park office to deliver and maintain a new technology solution which will support our investment product offering.
• We have more than 80 vacancies for people to be part of this exciting opportunity.
• Modernising our technology is fundamental to realising our ambitions and achieving sustained competitive advantage. It will allow us to develop an innovative and leading proposition, achieve speed to market and ongoing pace of change, and maintain a competitive cost-to-develop and cost-to-serve.

About you

• Expert in developing performance test platforms using frameworks such as LoadRunner and JMeter.
• High level of coding proficiency in TypeScript or Java, with strong software engineering standards and practices.
• Extensive experience designing and developing automated test suites including data priming capabilities.
• Experience with performance monitoring tools such as Grafana.
• Strong understanding of web services including GraphQL and REST.
• Experienced working with databases, including MongoDB and Oracle.
• Proven experience working within Agile delivery environments and modern software development lifecycles.
• Exceptional attention to detail with a focus on quality, reliability and risk mitigation.
• Self-motivated and able to work independently while mentoring and supporting others.
• Committed to continuous improvement, driving testing best practice, quality standards and innovation.

If you feel you'd be a great fit for Royal London but don't meet every requirement, we'd still love to hear from you. Research shows some candidates are less likely to apply unless they meet 100% of the criteria - if you meet most requirements and are keen to learn, we encourage you to apply!

About Royal London

We're the UK's largest mutual life, pensions and investment company, offering protection, long-term savings and asset management products and services.

Our People Promise to our colleagues is that we will all work somewhere inclusive, responsible, enjoyable and fulfilling. This is underpinned by our Spirit of Royal London values; Empowered, Trustworthy, Collaborate, Achieve.

We've always been proud to reward employees by offering great workplace benefits such as 28 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays, an up to 14% employer matching pension scheme and private medical insurance.

Inclusion, diversity and belonging

We're an inclusive employer. We celebrate and value different backgrounds and cultures across Royal London. Our diverse people and perspectives give us a range of skills which are recognised and respected - whatever their background.