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Performance Test Expert

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This role is for a Performance Test Expert with a 1-year contract at €600 per day, based in London. Key skills include non-functional testing in financial services, performance tools, and agile practices. Experience with JAVA, KAFKA, and cloud technologies is required.
🌎 - Country
United Kingdom
💱 - Currency
£ GBP
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💰 - Day rate
Unknown
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🗓️ - Date
November 25, 2025
🕒 - Duration
More than 6 months
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🏝️ - Location
Hybrid
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📄 - Contract
Unknown
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🔒 - Security
Unknown
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📍 - Location detailed
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
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🧠 - Skills detailed
#Monitoring #Automation #"ETL (Extract #Transform #Load)" #API (Application Programming Interface) #Disaster Recovery #Deployment #Linux #Security #Cloud #Agile #Microservices #DevOps #Splunk #Strategy #Scala #Kafka (Apache Kafka) #Java
Role description
Performance Test Expert (NFT, Non-Functional Testing and Strategy) – Banking Client Duration: 1 year Rate: €600 per day Location: London Hybrid Working - 8 days onsite in the London office per month. Role: As a specialist in non-functional related testing, you will assist the squads in shaping and managing the Non-Functional test requirements. Together with the technical experts & analyst you will translate those requirements into a test strategy and ensure proper and timely preparation and execution in alignment with our Infrastructure & Security divisions. You will be part of a team of 3 NFT specialist in which cross-learning & collaboration is valued. The NFT domains to be covered by the team are multiple (but not exclusive): Disaster Recovery, Resilience, Microservices, security, Alerting, Monitoring, Performance, CPU Usage. Key Responsibilities: • Drive the definition and testing of non-functional requirements (NFRs) as part of the Technology transformation (JAVA, KAFKA, Linux, Cloud, API) • Work closely with technical and business stakeholders to ensure non-functional requirements are clearly defined and are testable • Define and articulate the Non-Functional Test Strategy • Design and execute NFR testing cycles, coordinating efforts with external teams until bottleneck resolution through root cause examination. Documenting test results, and compiling results into consolidated high-level reports Requirements: • Hands- on experience of in the preparation & execution of Non-Functional Testing, ideally within Financial Services • Knowledge of non-functional testing including performance, Scalability, reliability, Failover/ Disaster Recovery, accessibility testing • Experience of using testing tools e.g. Performance Center/ LoadRunner, ADS, Selenium, Xray, Splunk • Are familiar with working within large scale & complex Technology Implementation or change • Experience in writing clear, concise and comprehensive non-functional test approach/plans and cases • Are technically strong and are able to translate requirements towards technical experts at the level of security and/or infrastructure • Ability to translate test results into understandable language for non-specialists & advice the business, design, infrastructure & development teams on resolution priorities • Hands on experience of agile Development practices, DevOps pipelines, continuous integration / deployment and test automation Please do send an up to date CV to eobiechefu@welovesalt.com