Performance Tester in Newcastle upon Tyne

Location: Newcastle Upon Tyne

Salary: Competitive + package (dependent on experience)

Hybrid Working: This role requires you to work from our Newcastle, Cobalt Business Park office three days per week.

Responsibilities:

• Work as part of project teams, utilising agile and/or waterfall principles, collaborating with stakeholders across specialisms.
• Get hands‑on with leading‑edge technology solutions.
• Continue a career based on Non‑Functional disciplines, delivering industry‑leading solutions across all domains of Non‑Functional Testing.
• Identify issues and risks, escalating and providing mitigating actions.
• Lead preparation, execution or review of Non‑Functional Testing.
• Demonstrate experience in result analysis and presentation of easy‑to‑read reports.
• Skilled in performance tooling such as JMeter, Neo Load, Rational Performance Tester, K6 or Workload Scheduler.
• Conversant in analytics tooling such as Splunk, Google Analytics, Grafana or Kibana.
• Possess experience working in cloud‑hosted infrastructure (AWS‑hosted).

Qualifications:

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

Key Skills:

• Performance tooling: JMeter, Neo Load, Rational Perf Tester, K6, Workload Scheduler.
• Analytics tooling: Splunk, Google Analytics, Grafana, Kibana.
• Experience with cloud‑hosted infrastructure, preferably AWS.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management.

Benefits:

• 25 days of vacation per year.
• Private medical insurance.
• 3 extra days leave per year for charitable work.
• Competitive base salary and extensive benefits package.

Equal Opportunity: Accenture is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of society. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, belief, ethnicity, national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital status, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, or gender identity, or any other basis as protected by applicable law. Accenture reserves the right to close the role prior to this date should a suitable applicant be found.