Test Engineer (performance testing)

HM Land Registry; Gloucester; On-site; GBP 44,000 - 54,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Civil Service Pension

Annual leave

Job summary

HM Land Registry is recruiting a Senior Test Engineer (performance testing) to join the Transformation and Technology team. You will define performance test strategy, develop reusable automation assets, and ensure testing is integrated into delivery plans while leading a team of performance testers.

The role requires ISTQB Foundation and a computing degree or equivalent, with experience in LoadRunner, OpenShift, Grafana and CloudWatch.

Qualifications

• ISTQB Foundation in Software Testing.
• Degree level or equivalent in Computing or related field.
• Experience with performance testing in large systems.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain performance test strategy, plan and approaches.
• Develop reusable frameworks and automation assets.
• Ensure performance testing is integrated into delivery plans.
• Provide leadership to performance testers and engineers.
• Design realistic workloads and run Load/Stress/Spike testing.
• Analyse results with APM tools and identify bottlenecks.
• Recommend tuning for code, JVM, middleware, and databases.
• Collaborate with developers and architects to optimize performance.

Skills

Performance testing

Load testing

Test automation

LoadRunner

APM

OpenShift

Grafana

CloudWatch

Non-functional testing

Stakeholder collaboration

Education

ISTQB Foundation in Software Testing

Degree in Computing

Tools

LoadRunner

OpenShift

Grafana

CloudWatch

Job description

It is an exciting time for HM Land Registry (HMLR) as we continue on a major transformation programme. HMLR's ambition is to become the world's leading land registry for speed, simplicity and an open approach to data. HMLR are recruiting for a Senior Test Engineer (performance testing) to join our Transformation and Technology team to help us achieve this. HM Land Registry's existing software systems and services form part of the critical national infrastructure, safeguarding land and property ownership valued at £8 trillion. This enables over £1 trillion worth of personal and commercial lending to be secured against property across England and Wales.

• Advocate best practice leading through practical examples and guidance
• Define and maintain performance test strategy, plan and the approaches
• Perform in depth reviews reporting quality improvements and successes
• Establish performance testing standards, processes and governance
• Develop reusable frameworks and automation assets
• Ensure performance testing is integrated into delivery plans
• Provide leadership and direction to performance testers and engineers
• Validate requirements against user demand and expected workload
• Innovate and generate tooling to assist testing tasks and potential future issues
• Ensure clear acceptance criteria are agreed
• Define performance test approaches for programmes and projects
• Develop the scripts, parameterize, correlate, and maintain reusable performance test scripts using LoadRunner
• Design realistic user journeys and business workload models aligned with production usage patterns to ensure appropriate workload modelling
• Conduct Load, Stress, Spike, Endurance (Soak), Volume, Scalability, and Capacity Testing
• Work with business and technical stakeholders to define measurable NFR's
• Analyse performance test results & Utilize APM and observability tools such as OpenShift, Grafana, and Cloudwatch.
• Monitor application health metrics including response times, throughput, CPU utilization, memory consumption, disk I/O, thread counts, and network latency.
• Provide tuning recommendations for application code, JVM, middleware, databases, caching, and infrastructure components.
• Collaborate with developers and architects to optimize system performance.

This role may involve occasional travel which may include stays away from home. This role may include weekend working to provide support to live assurance testing during deployment to Production.

Person specification

• ISTQB Foundation in Software Testing
• Degree level or equivalent in Computing, Artificial intelligence Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Nationalities and eligibility

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Qualifications

• ISTQB Foundation in Software Testing
• Degree level or equivalent in Computing or significant experience working in a related field.

Behaviours

• Changing and Improving
• Communicating and Influencing
• Working Together
• Developing Self and Others
• Delivering at Pace

Benefits

Benefits Alongside your salary of £49,443, HM Land Registry contributes £14,323 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme.

Company culture and values

At HM Land Registry our vision is a world leading property market as part of a thriving economy and a sustainable future. We are unique in terms of the economic and social impacts of our work, our ability to make a positive difference to the lives of our customers, our sense of mission, and our great people. They are the foundation of all we have achieved and all we aspire to in the future. We want our people to feel proud to work for HM Land Registry and able to fulfil their full potential. We have a strong and positive culture, a commitment to inclusivity, an emphasis on continuous learning and development, and flexible ways of working. We offer competitive pay and annual leave, attractive pension options and a wide range of other benefits.

• We have integrity- we value honesty, trust and doing the right thing in the right way.
• We drive innovation- we are forward-thinking, embrace change and are continually improving our processes.
• We are professional- we value and grow our knowledge and professional expertise.
• We give assurance- we guarantee our services and provide confidence to the property market.

HMLR is accredited to the Disability Confidence Scheme, which denotes organisations which have a positive attitude towards disabled people. Disabled applicants who meet the minimum essential criteria at the shortlisting stage are guaranteed an invitation to interview. If any candidate requires the panel to consider a reasonable adjustment or there is anything else they would like the panel to take into consideration they are asked to notify us of this at application stage where possible or during the process as soon as it becomes a requirement.

Security Successful candidates must undergo a basic (or equivalent) criminal record check. People working with government assets must complete checks.

You will have practitioner level experience of automated testing and automated test tools, as well as an understanding of environment needs and capabilities. You will be a practitioner in technical analysis and be able to absorb large amounts of conflicting information to determine solutions.

You will have practitioner level experience of automated performance testing and automated test tools, as well as be a practitioner in understanding environment needs and capabilities. You must also be a practitioner in technical analysis, and be able to absorb large amounts of conflicting information to determine solutions. You must be a practitioner in non-functioning tests and have experience in training and mentoring technical test skills. You must be a practitioner in technical breadth over a range of tools and techniques and have strong analytical and troubleshooting skills. You must also have performance tuning and root cause analysis expertise. You must be able to collaborate with development, infrastructure, operations, architecture, and business teams.

Ensure your application form is received by the closing date for receipt of applications - this is 23:55pm on the advertised date.

Candidates may refer to notes within their video interview but they should be used as a prompt only. The blended interview will assess the behaviours and experience listed in the candidate pack.

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