About Scrumconnect Consulting
Scrumconnect Consulting is a multi-award-winning digital consultancy, recognised for delivering impactful technology solutions across UK government departments. Our work has positively influenced the lives of over 40 million UK citizens. With a strong commitment to user-centred design and agile delivery, and more to deliver innovative digital services that matter.
Role Overview
We are looking for a Senior Performance Tester to deliver hands-on load and performance testing across large-scale digital services and Back End applications, with experience of working with cloud-based distributed services.
This is a technical, delivery-focused role operating in structured and governed environments where performance, resilience, and scalability are critical to service success.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and execute load, stress, volume, soak, and scalability tests
- Analyse performance results, logs, and system metrics to identify bottlenecks
- Gather and Validate performance NFRs, volumetrics, and capacity assumptions
- Prepare and maintain performance test scripts and execution runbooks
- Execute tests in cloud-hosted (AWS) non-production environments
- Raise performance defects with clear technical evidence
- Support CI/CD integration for performance testing where required
- Contribute to test reports, defect triage, and test completion evidence
- Work closely with developers, architects, platform, and operations teams
Essential Skills & Experience
- Strong experience in performance testing of enterprise systems
- Hands-on delivery using tools such as JMeter, Gatling, LoadRunner, k6 (or equivalent)
- Solid understanding xgikmsk of:
- APIs, HTTP, databases, messaging, caching
- Backend and distributed system performance characteristics
- Experience analysing logs and monitoring data
- Familiarity with Agile and hybrid delivery models
- Experience working in regulated or high-assurance environments
Desirable
- Experience with APM tools (eg Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Elastic Search with Kibana/Grafana across digital services)
- Publ Read the overview of this opportunity to understand what skills, including and relevant soft skills and software package proficiencies, are required. Please click on the apply button to read the full job description
Lead Performance Tester (SC Eligible/Cleared) in Woking employer: scrumconnect ltd
Scrumconnect Consulting is an exceptional employer that prioritises the growth and development of its employees, offering a supportive work culture in Newcastle. With a commitment to diversity and inclusion, as well as being a Disability Confident employer, we provide meaningful opportunities for career advancement and continuous learning, making it an ideal place for passionate individuals to thrive in their recruitment careers.
