Performance Test Engineer

Permanent | Hybrid (50% onsite) | London or Leeds | Digital Assurance & Performance Engineering | Azure Cloud | Azure Data Factory

At Peregrine, we’re always seeking Specialist Talent that have the ideal mix of skills, experience, and attitude, to place with our vast array of clients. From Business Analysts in large government organisations to Software Developers in the private sector – we are always in search of the best talent to place, now.

We are looking for an experienced Performance Test Engineer to join a major technology transformation environment, working on complex, high-profile platforms where scalability, resilience and reliability are critical.

You’ll play a key role in shaping and delivering performance testing strategies across cloud, hybrid and on-premises environments. Working closely with developers, architects and wider engineering teams, you’ll identify performance bottlenecks, analyse system behaviour and help ensure applications and services can perform effectively under significant load.

This is a hands-on performance engineering role where you’ll have the opportunity to work with modern performance testing, observability, cloud and containerisation technologies while helping to develop and improve the wider performance engineering approach.

• Design, execute and analyse performance, load, stress and volume tests against complex applications and platforms.
• Develop performance testing strategies with OAT and Functional Test Automation (such as Selenium, Playright, Cucumber etc),
• Identify system bottlenecks and investigate complex performance issues, providing clear and actionable recommendations.
• Use monitoring and observability tooling including Grafana and Splunk to understand system performance and behaviour.
• Utilise diagnostic and Application Performance Monitoring tools such as New Relic and Dynatrace to investigate performance issues.
• Work closely with developers, architects and engineering teams to troubleshoot performance and scalability problems.
• Develop and maintain performance test scripts using tools such as JMeter, Load Runner, Eggplant Performance and Gatling.
• Support performance engineering across containerised environments using technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Integrate performance testing into CI/CD pipelines and drive continuous improvements to testing processes.
• Communicate performance findings, risks and recommendations clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Strong experience within Performance Testing or Performance Engineering.
• Ability to design, execute and analyse performance, load, stress and volume tests.
• Strong knowledge of performance testing methodologies and tools such as JMeter, Load Runner, Eggplant Performance or Gatling.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Grafana and Splunk.
• Experience with diagnostic platforms such as New Relic and Dynatrace.
• Strong experience with Azure Cloud and Azure Data Factory
• Understanding of containerisation technologies including Docker and Kubernetes.
• OAT and Functional Test Automation (such as Selenium, Playright, Cucumber etc),
• Knowledge of middleware technologies such as Kafka and IBM MQ.
• Experience with Databricks or other big data platforms.
• Experience with the ELK stack and reporting tools such as Tableau.
• Exposure to CI/CD technologies including Git Hub Actions and Jenkins.
• Experience using Git or similar version control systems.
• Experience integrating performance testing into CI/CD pipelines.
• Familiarity with security and compliance considerations within performance testing.

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