Performance Tester

Job Title

performance tester

Newcastle Upon Tyne

Competitive + package (dependent on experience)

This role requires working from our Newcastle, Cobalt Business Park office 3 days per week.

• You will work as part of project teams, utilising agile and/or waterfall principles, successfully collaborating with various stakeholders.
• Getting hands‑on with leading‑edge technology solutions.
• Continuing a career based on Non‑Functional disciplines including tooling and technologies, delivering industry‑leading solutions across all domains of Non‑Functional Testing.
• Identifying issues and risks, escalating and providing mitigating actions.
• Leading preparation, execution or review of Non‑Functional Testing.
• Demonstrating experience in result analysis and presentation of easy‑to‑read reports.
• Skilled in Performance Tooling such as JMeter, Neo Load, Rational Perf Tester, K6 or Workload Scheduler.
• Conversant in Analytics Tooling such as Splunk, Google Analytics, Grafana or Kibana.
• Possessing experience in working in cloud‑hosted (AWS) infrastructure is an asset.

• Deep technology inquisitiveness – focusing on key details while appreciating their fit in, and impact to, the end‑to‑end architecture.
• A passion to deliver critical client system to an extremely high level of resiliency and operability.
• A thorough understanding of architectural components across complex, multi‑tiered architectures.
• An ability to conduct deep technical analysis – determining which indicators are key for solution success or failure.
• A clear thought process for investigating technical issues and steering investigations across wide stakeholder groups.
• Proven leadership in implementation of Non‑Functional Test Strategies and Test Plans.
• Ability to work in changing and challenging environments, adapting to changing requirements and priorities at short notice.
• Defect Management lifecycle experience, including tooling such as JIRA, Bugzilla or HP ALM.

• 25 days vacation per year.
• Private medical insurance.
• 3 extra days leave per year for charitable work of your choice.
• Flexibility and mobility required; may need to spend time onsite with clients and partners.

Accenture is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of society and does not discriminate on grounds of race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital status, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, or gender identity or expression, or any other basis as protected by applicable law. All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or expression, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as protected by federal, state, or local law.