Performance Test Lead

Job Title: Performance Test Lead
Location: Cardiff (Hybrid Working)
Salary/Rate: £450 - £470
Start Date: Immediately
Job Type: Initial Contract Until End of June (Extension Likely)

We are seeking an experienced Performance Test Lead to play a key hands-on role within a large-scale, multi-wave cloud migration programme. This is a foundational position within an organisation that does not currently have an established performance testing capability, offering the opportunity to shape strategy, tooling, and best practice from the ground up.

The programme involves migrating a significant portfolio of enterprise applications from on-premise data centres into Azure and Google Cloud environments over a multi-year period.

This is a highly practical role requiring strong technical delivery capability alongside stakeholder engagement and governance alignment.

Job Responsibilities/Objectives

• Lead the design, build and execution of performance test strategies across multiple migration waves
• Create detailed performance test plans aligned to infrastructure and application change
• Execute load, stress, endurance and resilience testing across cloud and virtualised environments
• Perform performance validation of cloud networking (latency, packet loss, bandwidth, resilience)
• Deliver performance tuning recommendations backed by evidence
• Produce clear performance test summary reports for technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Work closely with development, infrastructure and DevOps teams to embed performance engineering principles
• Support "Shift Left" performance testing within CI/CD pipelines
• Provide coaching and knowledge transfer where required

Required Skills/Experience
The ideal candidate will have the following:

• Proven experience leading performance testing within cloud migration or complex enterprise environments
• Strong hands-on experience with:
• JMeter (Java-based scripting)
• LoadRunner (C-based scripting)
• Azure Load Testing / Azure App Testing
• BlazeMeter (including Taurus)
• Experience executing load and performance testing within Citrix environments
• Azure architecture performance modelling and validation
• Cloud networking performance validation
• API performance testing (JMeter, Postman)
• Front-end performance profiling (Lighthouse, PageSpeed Insights)
• Integration of performance testing into Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines
• Strong governance, reporting and stakeholder communication skills

Desirable Skills/Experience
Although not essential, the following skills are desired by the client:

• Performance test plan per migration wave or major infrastructure change
• Executed performance test cycles with documented outcomes
• Performance tuning recommendations with supporting evidence
• Performance test summary reports suitable for governance forums

If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply now with your updated CV in Microsoft Word/PDF format.

Disclaimer
Notwithstanding any guidelines given to level of experience sought, we will consider candidates from outside this range if they can demonstrate the necessary competencies.

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