Mid Performance Tester (UK, Technology, Hybrid)
Summary
Mid-level performance engineer working UK-timezone hours in a hybrid Manila-based role supporting a UK client. Day to day they design and run load, stress, endurance, and resilience tests for apps, APIs, and platforms, analyse bottlenecks with monitoring/observability data, and embed performance testing into CI/CD pipelines using tools like JMeter, LoadRunner, NeoLoad, Gatling, or k6.
Hybrid: 2-3x per week onsite
Job Summary:
The Performance Engineer is responsible for ensuring applications and platforms meet performance, scalability, reliability, and resilience requirements. The role involves designing and executing performance tests, identifying and analysing performance bottlenecks, evaluating system behaviour under load, and collaborating with engineering teams to implement performance improvements.
Reporting to the Performance Engineering Architect and working within Agile and DevOps environments, the Performance Engineer will play a key role in delivering high-quality, scalable solutions that provide an excellent user experience and support business growth.
What will you do?
- Design, develop, and execute performance testing activities for applications, APIs, and platforms in line with client's Performance Testing and Performance Engineering Strategy.
- Create, maintain, and optimise performance test scripts, frameworks, and reusable assets.
- Develop realistic workload models based on business usage patterns and production analytics.
- Execute load, stress, endurance, volume, scalability, and resilience testing.
- Analyse test results to identify performance bottlenecks across applications, infrastructure, databases, and networks.
- Produce performance reports and actionable recommendations, collaborating with developers, architects, and DevOps engineers to resolve identified issues.
- Support the definition, validation, and measurement of non-functional requirements (NFRs).
- Utilise application performance monitoring and observability tools to investigate performance issues and assess system behaviour under load.
- Analyse system metrics, logs, traces, and monitoring data to identify root causes and performance risks.
- Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives, helping to evolve performance engineering practices, standards, and tooling across QA and Engineering teams.
- Support the integration of performance testing within CI/CD pipelines and Agile delivery processes.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field; or equivalent experience.
- More than 3 years' experience in performance testing, performance engineering, or a related technical role.
- Experience in performance testing and performance engineering within complex software environments.
- Strong understanding of software development lifecycles (SDLC) and software testing methodologies.
- Experience using one or more performance testing tools, such as JMeter, LoadRunner, NeoLoad, Gatling, or k6.
- Knowledge of API testing and service-oriented architectures.
- Understanding of application architecture, database technologies, cloud platforms, and infrastructure components.
- Experience analysing performance test results and diagnosing performance bottlenecks.
- Familiarity with Agile, DevOps, and continuous delivery practices.
- Experience using monitoring and observability tools is desirable.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
- Hybrid Work Arrangement
- Medical, Dental Coverage and Life insurance from day 1 of employment
- Paid Vacation and Sick Leave (with Quarterly Sick Leave Conversion)
- Competitive salary package and annual appraisal
- Financial Assistance Program
- Mandatory Government Benefits and 13th Month Pay
- Complimentary Sleeping Quarters, Coffee at no cost
- Complimentary Office Fitness and Wellness Facilities at no cost
- Regular Company Events, Work Life Balance, and Career growth opportunities
- Accessible location at the heart of Metro Manila --- the Mega Tower, EDSA
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