At a Glance
- Tasks: Ensure applications perform well under pressure and identify performance risks early.
- Company: Join a leading tech firm focused on performance excellence.
- Benefits: Attractive salary, flexible working options, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Collaborative culture with a focus on innovation and career advancement.
- Why this job: Make a real difference by optimising application performance in a dynamic environment.
- Qualifications: 8-12 years of experience in performance testing with LoadRunner and strong analytical skills.
The predicted salary is between 60750 - 74250 £ per year.
The Senior Performance Test Engineer is responsible for ensuring that applications and platforms meet performance, scalability, stability, and reliability requirements under expected and peak workload conditions. The role requires extensive experience with LoadRunner/Performance Centre, strong knowledge of performance testing methodologies, and the ability to work closely with business, architecture, development, and infrastructure teams to identify and mitigate performance risks early in the delivery lifecycle.
Your responsibilities:
- Understands performance test requirements and prepare test plan
- Creates and updates performance test scripts and test data
- Able to conduct performance test execution and analyze the test results
- Able to identify performance bottlenecks and effectively communicate the performance risks to respective project team
- Prepare Performance Test Summary report
- Identifies risk and issues, and develops effective mitigation and contingency plans
- Produces daily and weekly status reports
- Captures performance test metrics
- Responsible for keeping knowledge repositories up to date
- Responsible for end-to-end performance test delivery for assigned Applications
Your Profile
Essential skills/knowledge/experience:
- Minimum 8 to 12 years of hands-on experience in delivering non-functional test engagements, covering requirement gathering, workload model preparation, test planning, scripting using Web HTTP/HTML, TruClient, and web services, test execution, monitoring, and in-depth performance results analysis.
- Experience in Testing tools and technologies like Performance Centre, LoadRunner, MuleSoft, Tibco, Mule ESB, APM tools like Dynatrace/ App Dynamics.
- Proven capability in setting up performance testing frameworks and standards
- Hands-on experience delivering performance testing across both cloud‑based and legacy environment
Desirable skills/knowledge/experience:
- Must have worked in Agile teams, should be well versed in agile framework
- Strong stakeholder management, workshop facilitation, and communication skills
- Good interpersonal and communication skills with team members and UK customers
Performance Test Engineer (Load Runner Engineer) in Scotland employer: Gazelle Global
At Gazelle Global, we pride ourselves on being an exceptional employer that fosters a collaborative and innovative work culture. Our team members benefit from extensive professional development opportunities, competitive compensation, and the chance to lead transformative projects in a dynamic environment. Located in a vibrant area, we offer a unique blend of work-life balance and career growth, making us an ideal choice for those seeking meaningful and rewarding employment.
