Software Test and Validation Engineer

Giorgio Armani; City of Westminster; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading luxury fashion brand seeks a Performance Test Expert to join their team in London. The expert will manage non-functional testing requirements and collaborate with technical teams for effective execution. Responsibilities include defining non-functional test strategies, executing testing cycles, and documenting results. Ideal candidates should have hands-on experience in non-functional testing, particularly within financial services, and be proficient with tools like LoadRunner and Selenium. This role offers a hybrid work schedule with 8 days on-site monthly.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience in the preparation & execution of Non-Functional Testing.
• Familiar with testing tools and performance standards.
• Ability to write clear non-functional test plans.

Responsibilities

• Drive the definition and testing of non-functional requirements.
• Design and execute non-functional testing cycles.
• Document test results and compile high-level reports.

Skills

Non-Functional Testing experience

Knowledge of performance testing

Experience with LoadRunner

Agile development practices

Technical translation of requirements

Tools

Performance Center

Selenium

Splunk

Job description

Performance Test Expert (NFT, Non-Functional Testing and Strategy) - Banking Client

Duration: 1 year | Rate: €600 per day | Location: London | Hybrid Working – 8 days onsite per month

Role: As a specialist in non-functional related testing, you will assist the squads in shaping and managing the Non-Functional test requirements. Together with the technical experts & analyst you will translate those requirements into a test strategy and ensure proper and timely preparation and execution in alignment with our Infrastructure & Security divisions. You will be part of a team of 3 NFT specialists in which cross-learning & collaboration is valued. The NFT domains to be covered by the team are multiple (but not exclusive): Disaster Recovery, Resilience, Microservices, security, Alerting, Monitoring, Performance, CPU Usage.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive the definition and testing of non-functional requirements (NFRs) as part of the Technology transformation (JAVA, KAFKA, Linux, Cloud, API)
• Work closely with technical and business stakeholders to ensure non-functional requirements are clearly defined and are testable
• Define and articulate the Non-Functional Test Strategy
• Design and execute NFR testing cycles, coordinating efforts with external teams until bottleneck resolution through root cause examination.
• Document test results, and compile results into consolidated high-level reports

Requirements

• Hands‑on experience of in the preparation & execution of Non-Functional Testing, ideally within Financial Services
• Knowledge of non-functional testing including performance, Scalability, reliability, Failover/Disaster Recovery, accessibility testing
• Experience of using testing tools e.g. Performance Center/ LoadRunner, ADS, Selenium, Xray, Splunk
• Familiar with working within large scale & complex Technology Implementation or change
• Experience in writing clear, concise and comprehensive non-functional test approach/plans and cases
• Technically strong and able to translate requirements towards technical experts at the level of security and/or infrastructure
• Ability to translate test results into understandable language for non-specialists & advise the business, design, infrastructure & development teams on resolution priorities
• Hands on experience of agile Development practices, DevOps pipelines, continuous integration / deployment and test automation

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