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Performance Tester
£50,400 - 56,400
Gilbert Street 22, London
£50,400 - 56,400
Requirements
Must:
- Proven experience in performance testing within modern digital environments
- Strong hands-on experience with tools such as JMeter, Gatling, Azure Load Testing or similar cloud-based load testing platforms
- Solid understanding of performance metrics (throughput, latency, response times, error rates, etc.)
- Experience analysing results and communicating findings clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Comfortable working in agile delivery teams
- Experience integrating performance testing into CI/CD pipelines (desirable)
- Cloud platform experience (Azure preferred) (desirable)
- Background in performance engineering or non-functional testing strategies (desirable)
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and execute performance, load, and stress tests across complex systems
- Analyse test results and produce clear reports highlighting risks, constraints, and improvement actions
- Work closely with developers, architects, and delivery teams to validate fixes and optimise performance
- Contribute to performance test strategies and best practices
- Support continuous improvement of tooling, approaches, and reporting
Description
We are seeking an experienced Performance Tester to help ensure our systems are scalable, reliable, and meet agreed performance targets across business-critical digital services. This role will be hybrid, based in London for 2 days a week. We offer a competitive daily rate between £420 and £470, outside IR35. You will play a key role in validating system behavior under load, identifying bottlenecks, and providing clear, actionable insight to delivery teams to drive performance improvements.
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