Performance Test Engineer

Summary: The Senior Performance Tester for Privileged Access Management (PAM) will play a crucial role in ensuring the performance and reliability of PAM tools in enterprise settings. This position involves designing and executing performance tests, analyzing results, and collaborating with various stakeholders to meet performance requirements. The role is critical for supporting secure management of privileged accounts and mitigating risks associated with performance issues. The position is remote and offered as an initial 6-month contract.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, script, and execute performance, load, stress, and scalability tests using tools such as LoadRunner, JMeter, Gatling, or equivalent.
• Collaborate with business analysts, architects, and engineers to understand performance requirements and user scenarios.
• Simulate real-world high-load scenarios involving PAM activities like account onboarding, password rotation, and session recording.
• Execute tests using LoadRunner Enterprise (LRE), including schedule by group, test, and goal-oriented scenarios.
• Configure and troubleshoot Load Generators and LoadRunner agents within the test environment.
• Monitor application and system performance using tools like Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Splunk, Grafana, or native dashboards.
• Analyze test results, perform error diagnosis, and identify performance bottlenecks across application and infrastructure layers.
• Validate key non-functional requirements such as response times, throughput, and concurrency levels.
• Prepare comprehensive test plans, reports, and dashboards for both technical and business stakeholders.
• Support automation and integration of performance testing into CI/CD pipelines.
• Contribute to go/no-go decisions by providing actionable performance insights.

Key Skills:

• 3+ years of hands-on performance testing experience in complex or security-focused environments.
• Practical experience with performance testing tools such as LoadRunner, JMeter, Gatling, or similar.
• Strong understanding of Privileged Access Management platforms (e.g., CyberArk, BeyondTrust, Delinea).
• Proven experience testing APIs (REST/SOAP), databases, and session management systems.
• Working knowledge of network latency, concurrency, thread modeling, and system throughput.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes) is a strong plus.
• Ability to interpret logs, traces, and metrics to identify performance issues and root causes.
• Solid communication and documentation skills to present findings clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.

Salary (Rate): undetermined

City: undetermined

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: remote

IR35 Status: undetermined

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: IT