Performance Test Engineer (LoadRunner)

Performance Test Engineer (LoadRunner)

Our client, a leading global supplier for IT services, requires an experienced Performance Test Engineer (LoadRunner Engineer) to be based at their client's office in Glasgow.

This is a hybrid role: you can work remotely in the UK and attend the Glasgow office 3 days per week.

This is a 6 month temporary contract to start ASAP

Day rate: Competitive Market rate

The Senior Performance Test Engineer is responsible for ensuring that applications and platforms meet performance, scalability, stability, and reliability requirements under expected and peak workload conditions. The role requires extensive experience with LoadRunner/Performance Centre, strong knowledge of performance testing methodologies, and the ability to work closely with business, architecture, development, and infrastructure teams to identify and mitigate performance risks early in the delivery life cycle.

Key Responsibilities

• Understand performance test requirements and prepare test plan
• Create and update performance test scripts and test data
• Able to conduct performance test execution and analyze the test results
• Able to identify Performance bottlenecks and effectively communicate the performance risks to respective project team
• Prepare Performance Test Summary report
• Identify risk and issues, and develop effective mitigation and contingency plans
• Produce daily and weekly status reports
• Capture performance test metrics
• Responsible for keeping knowledge repositories up to date
• Responsible for end-to-end performance test delivery for assigned Applications

Key Requirements

• Minimum 8 to 12 years of hands-on experience in delivering non-functional test engagements, covering requirement gathering, workload model preparation, test planning, Scripting using Web HTTP/HTML, TruClient, and web services, test execution, monitoring, and in-depth performance results analysis.
• Experience in Testing tools and technologies like Performance Centre, LoadRunner, MuleSoft, Tibco, Mule ESB, APM tools like Dynatrace/App Dynamics.
• Proven capability in setting up performance testing frameworks and standards
• Hands-on experience delivering performance testing across both cloud-based and Legacy environment
• Must have worked in Agile teams, should be well versed in agile framework
• Strong stakeholder management, workshop facilitation, and communication skills
• Good interpersonal and communication skills with team members and UK customers

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