About
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 world's fastest-growing Active Digital Preservation solution, knowing that it is safeguarding the world's 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 rapidly, and to maintain our momentum, we believe in hiring strong technical talent and supporting their growth. Our offices are in Abingdon, but this Performance Test Engineer Lead role can be either office-based or hybrid with monthly office days. You should live within a 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
1. Design and implement detailed performance testing plans, including load, stress, endurance, and scalability testing.
2. Develop and maintain automated performance testing suites using tools like JMeter, Gatling, NeoLoad, LoadRunner, or similar.
3. Integrate automated performance tests into CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, TeamCity, or similar tools.
4. Establish and maintain key performance metrics through baseline vs. benchmarking analysis.
5. Conduct in-depth performance analysis using tools like Grafana, Prometheus, AWS CloudWatch, and Azure Insights.
6. Work closely with engineers and operational teams to diagnose and troubleshoot performance issues.
What We Offer
Alongside a competitive salary and benefits, we offer great future prospects in a fast-growing market sector. We support your technical growth and leadership development through tailored career development and an annual training allowance for learning new technologies, soft skills, or earning professional qualifications.
Preservica is an equal opportunity employer.
Desired Experience
* Expertise in performance testing tools like JMeter, Gatling, LoadRunner, etc.
* Hands-on experience with monitoring tools such as 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
* RDBMS experience.
* DevOps experience, including Terraform and/or Ansible.
* Cloud experience with AWS and/or Azure.
* Line management experience.
Additional Skills
* JMeter, Gatling, LoadRunner, Jenkins, TeamCity, Grafana, Prometheus, Kubernetes, Docker, RabbitMQ, Python, Bash, Java, TypeScript, Terraform, Ansible, AWS, Azure.
Location
Abingdon, England
Work Experience
* QA Test Automation
Languages
* English
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