Performance Test Engineer/Lead (Cybersecurity)
Summary
Lead performance and non-functional testing for cloud-native platforms, ensuring scalability, resilience, and production readiness in a large-scale enterprise environment using GCP and CI/CD pipelines.
Performance & Non-Functional Testing Lead
Join a large-scale technology transformation programme and help shape the performance, resilience and scalability of modern cloud-native platforms.
We're looking for an experienced Performance & Non-Functional Testing Lead to own the end-to-end non-functional testing capability across a complex enterprise environment. This is a senior technical leadership role combining strategy, hands-on expertise and programme-wide ownership.
What you'll do
You'll define and drive the Performance & Non-Functional Testing strategy, ensuring cloud-based services are scalable, resilient and production-ready. Working closely with Architects, Engineering, DevOps, Product and Scrum teams, you'll embed non-functional testing into the delivery lifecycle and champion engineering best practices.
Key responsibilities include:
Defining the Performance & Non-Functional Testing strategy, roadmap and governance.
Leading testing across load, stress, volume, resilience, failover, high availability (HA), disaster recovery (DR) and operational readiness scenarios.
Owning tooling, environments, test planning, reporting and programme-wide quality metrics.
Analysing performance results, identifying bottlenecks and driving remediation.
Integrating Performance Testing into CI/CD pipelines and supporting shift-left delivery practices.
Mentoring Performance Test Engineers and providing technical leadership across the programme.
What you'll bring
You'll have proven experience delivering Performance & Non-Functional Testing across complex enterprise environments, with expertise in:
Enterprise Performance & Non-Functional Testing strategy and governance.
Cloud-native testing, ideally within Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
Performance testing tools such as JMeter, Gatling, LoadRunner or NeoLoad.
Performance analysis, profiling, monitoring and optimisation.
Containerised and serverless architectures, Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and observability.
Strong scripting or programming skills (Python, Java, Scala or Cypher).
Database and messaging performance, including Neo4j/GDBMS, Pub/Sub and MQ.
API, batch/ETL and integration testing.
Agile delivery, stakeholder management and technical leadership.
Nice to have
Experience with GitLab CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, IAM platforms, AppDynamics, Datadog, GCP Monitoring, DevSecOps, SaaS testing, and establishing enterprise-wide Performance Testing standards and governance.
If you're passionate about performance engineering, cloud technologies and driving quality across complex distributed systems, we'd love to hear from you.
Why apply for an Antal job offer?
When your application is successful, you will be supported by a dedicated Consultant who will stay in regular contact with you (via email or phone), help you prepare for interviews with your future employer, and ensure a smooth and professional recruitment process.
About Antal
Antal is a leading recruitment and HR advisory company, present in Poland since 1996 and later expanded to the Czech Republic and Hungary. Across the CEE region, we employ around 150 professionals who deliver a full range of services – from specialist and executive recruitment, employee outsourcing and HR consulting, to employer branding and market research.
Our division-based structure combines deep industry expertise with functional specialisation, enabling us to provide tailored solutions for companies in every sector. We act as a trusted partner for both employers and candidates, sharing our knowledge and guiding them through every stage of the talent journey. We connect exceptional people with the right opportunities and help organisations build successful teams.
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