Senior Performance Tester

Newcastle, United Kingdom | Posted on 05/02/2026

Scrumconnect Consulting is a multi-award-winning digital consultancy, recognised for delivering impactful technology solutions across UK government departments. Our work has positively influenced the lives of over 40 million UK citizens. With a strong commitment to user-centred design and agile delivery, and more to deliver innovative digital services that matter.

We are looking for a Senior Performance Tester to deliver hands-on load and performance testing across large-scale digital services and backend applications, with experience of working with cloud-based distributed services .

This is a technical, delivery-focused role operating in structured and governed environments where performance, resilience, and scalability are critical to service success.

Design and execute load, stress, volume, soak, and scalability tests

Analyse performance results, logs, and system metrics to identify bottlenecks

Gather and Validate performance NFRs, volumetrics, and capacity assumptions

Prepare and maintain performance test scripts and execution runbooks

Execute tests in cloud-hosted (AWS) non-production environments

Raise performance defects with clear technical evidence

Support CI/CD integration for performance testing where required

Contribute to test reports, defect triage, and test completion evidence

Work closely with developers, architects, platform, and operations teams

Strong experience in performance testing of enterprise systems

Hands-on delivery using tools such as JMeter, Gatling, Load Runner, k6 (or equivalent)

Solid understanding of:

APIs, HTTP, databases, messaging, caching

Backend and distributed system performance characteristics

Experience analysing logs and monitoring data

Familiarity with Agile and hybrid delivery models

Experience working in regulated or high-assurance environments

Experience with
APM tools (e.g. Dynatrace, App Dynamics, Elastic Search with Kibana/Grafana across digital services )

Public-sector or large programme delivery experience

Familiarity with GDS

Responsible for hands-on performance test design and execution

Owns quality and accuracy of assigned test artefacts and results

Contributes analysis and recommendations but does not hold final assurance authority

Works under the direction of a Lead Performance Tester or Test Manager

Accountable for timely delivery of agreed performance testing activities

At Scrumconnect Consulting, we believe that
diversity drives innovation
. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone is respected, valued, and supported. We actively encourage applications from
women, people with disabilities, individuals from under-represented communities
, and those seeking
flexible working arrangements
.

As a
Disability Confident Level 1 employer
, we provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process and employment to ensure equal opportunity for all.