Performance Test Engineer

Salary: £? - ? per year

Requirements

• Minimum 8 years of hands-on experience delivering non-functional testing engagements, including requirements gathering, workload model preparation, test planning, scripting with Web HTTP/HTML, TruClient and web services, test execution, monitoring, and in-depth performance results analysis.
• Experience with testing tools and technologies such as Performance Centre, LoadRunner, MuleSoft, Tibco, Mule ESB, and APM tools such as Dynatrace or AppDynamics.
• Proven capability in setting up performance testing frameworks and standards.
• Hands-on experience delivering performance testing across cloud-based and legacy environments.
• Experience working in Agile teams and familiarity with the Agile framework.
• Strong stakeholder management, workshop facilitation, and communication skills.
• Good interpersonal and communication skills when working with team members and UK customers.

Responsibilities

• Understand performance test requirements and prepare test plans.
• Create and update performance test scripts and test data.
• Conduct performance test execution and analyze results.
• Identify performance bottlenecks and communicate performance risks to the relevant project teams.
• Prepare performance test summary reports.
• Identify risks and issues, and develop effective mitigation and contingency plans.
• Produce daily and weekly status reports.
• Capture performance test metrics.
• Keep knowledge repositories up to date.
• Deliver end-to-end performance testing for assigned applications.

Technologies:

• Cloud
• Dynatrace
• ESB
• HTTP
• MuleSoft
• TIBCO
• Web

More:

We are recruiting two Senior Performance Test Engineers (LoadRunner Engineers) on a contract basis in Glasgow. The role is hybrid, with three days per week required in the office. Our client works alongside the UK Governments Department for Education. The role focuses on ensuring applications and platforms meet performance, scalability, stability, and reliability requirements under expected and peak workloads, working with business, architecture, development, and infrastructure teams to identify and mitigate performance risks. We welcome and embrace diversity across race, nationality, ethnicity, disability, neurodiversity, gender identity, age, physical ability, gender reassignment, and sexual orientation. We are a disability-inclusive employer and encourage disabled people to apply.

last updated 40 week of 2026