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Performance Test Engineer Lead
Job Posted: a day ago
Salary: £ 65,000 - 70,000 / Annum
Job Type: Permanent
Location: Abingdon, Oxfordshire
Expire in: a month
Job Description
Can you help us to double in size? Do you understand the demands of scaling up an enterprise SaaS solution? Are you ready for the challenge of delivering the worlds fastest-growing Active Digital Preservation solution, knowing that it is safeguarding the worlds most precious digital assets?
We are Preservica, and we are changing the way organisations safeguard their digital information.
Our projects are at the razor's edge of commercial software solutions addressing the need for smart digital preservation technologies. As a world-leader in digital preservation, our award-winning software is used by leading businesses, archives, libraries, museums and government organisations across the globe.
We are growing at pace, and to maintain our cadence we believe in hiring strong technical talent and then supporting that talent to grow with us. Our offices are in Abingdon but this Performance Test Engineer Lead role could be either office based or hybrid with monthly office days. You should live within reasonable commute of Abingdon.
The Role
Working as part of our Software Quality team, you will play a key role in strategising, implementing, and optimising performance testing for our systems, ensuring robust, scalable, and high-performing applications. This is a hands-on position requiring both technical expertise and the ability to mentor junior team members while driving improvements in performance testing practices across the business.
Key Tasks and Responsibilities
Design and implement detailed performance testing plans, including load, stress, endurance, and scalability testing.
Develop and maintain automated performance testing suites using tools like JMeter, Gatling, NeoLoad, LoadRunner or similar.
Integrate automated performance tests into CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, TeamCity, or similar tools.
Establish and maintain key performance metrics through baseline vs. benchmarking analysis.
Conduct in-depth performance analysis using tools like Grafana, Prometheus, AWS CloudWatch, and Azure Insights.
Work closely with engineers and operational teams to diagnose and troubleshoot performance issues.
What We Offer
As well as a competitive salary and benefits package, we also offer great future prospects in a fast-growing market sector. From improving your technical abilities to developing leadership skills, we can offer tailored career development based on your aspirations.
This is supported by our focus on personal development and training - all our staff have an annual training allowance, which can be used to learn new technologies, develop soft skills or earn recognised professional qualifications.
Preservica is an equal opportunity employer.
Desired Experience
Expertise in performance testing tools, such as JMeter, Gatling, LoadRunner, etc.
Hands-on use of monitoring tools, i.e. Prometheus, Grafana, AWS CloudWatch, or similar
Experience with Jenkins, TeamCity, Kubernetes, Docker, RabbitMQ (or similar)
Ability to script and modify solutions in Python, Bash, Java, etc.
Experience with Playwright and TypeScript
Relevant performance testing certifications or qualifications
Nice to Haves
RDMS experience an advantage
DevOps experience, Terraform and/or Ansible
Cloud Experience AWS and/or Azure
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