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Performance & Automation Test Engineer

UK💼 Full-time🗓 2025-05-22 → 2026-08-07

Core

Designing and executing performance testing strategies and automation frameworks for large-scale web applications, APIs, and backend services to ensure scalability and reliability.

Role type

Performance & Automation Test Engineer

Builds

Production-ready performance test suites, automation frameworks, and CI/CD pipelines for QA.

Domain

Software Engineering / Quality Assurance / Cloud Infrastructure

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work

Required skills

Performance testing strategy design, Test automation framework development, Java, JavaScript, Python, K6, JMeter, HP LoadRunner, Gatling, AppDynamics, New Relic, Grafana, ELK, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, REST, SQL, Load modeling, System resource analysis (CPU, Memory, Disk, Network)

Preferred skills

Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, Appium, AngularJS, NodeJS, ReactJS, CI/CD infrastructure setup, High-volume load modeling, Monitoring dashboard creation

Technologies

Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, Appium, K6, JMeter, HP LoadRunner, Gatling, AppDynamics, New Relic, Grafana, ELK, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, AngularJS, NodeJS, ReactJS

Responsibilities

Gather performance testing requirements and define test strategies, Develop and maintain automation frameworks for faster and stable testing, Execute performance tests to identify bottlenecks and system limits, Analyze system resources (CPU, memory, run queue) and provide remediation plans, Set up CI/CD infrastructure to run performance scripts, Collaborate with development teams to test products under load and recommend improvements

Seniority

Mid-Senior, hands-on IC

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