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Performance Test Engineer

Job Title: Performance Test Engineer
Contract Type: Contract
Location: Basingstoke, Hampshire
Industry:
Salary: Negotiable
Start Date: ASAP
Duration: 6 Months
REF: FJS - PerfTest_1563208123
Contact Name: Mike Tozer
Contact Email: mike.tozer@projectpeople.com
Job Published: over 4 years ago

Job Description

Performance Test Engineer

Basingstoke

CONTRACT - 6 Months

This role requires an experienced Senior Performance Tester to deliver and own Operability and Performance testing capabilities present on the project, across a range of technologies and operating systems. The Senior Performance Tester will understand and be able to create sophisticated performance test scenarios, maintain a performance framework and create detailed, informative reports to management and the customer.


Projects will be executed with agile principles with a focus on delivering minimum viable product as quickly as possible and delivering incremental value through its lifecycle.

Required Skills - a mix of:

  • Good experience with JMeter, Loadrunner or other Performance Test Tools
  • Ability to produce and understand SOAP, POST API and XML scripts
  • Ability to produce meaningful and clear defect reports for test cycles and releases
  • Demonstrable experience with Non-Functional Testing and Automation Testing
  • Demonstrable Delivery of Test scripts, Test Reporting, Defect Management and Reporting requirements
  • Demonstrable Experience of Agile/Incremental solution delivery
  • Demonstrable knowledge of Configuration/Change/Release management principles
  • Experience of test tooling including GUI, Load, Security and unit test frameworks
  • Business application migration testing;
  • Experience of solution delivery in a highly secure environment

Desirable Skills:

  • Ability to understand and write simple SQL statement
  • Ability understand and programme Java/Groovy
  • Understanding of statistics and mathamatics
  • Knowledge of WAN, LAN Networking technologies and protocols
  • Knowledge of Virtualisation technologies, VMware, Hyper-V, Microsoft Systems Centre.
  • Knowledge of Apache technologies


A national security clearance is required for this role but candidates not holding this level of clearance will be considered.

Project People is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.