Python Performance Test Engineer
Posted 3 days ago by 1759647048
Negotiable
Outside
Remote
London
Summary: The Python Performance Test Engineer role is a 6-month remote contract focused on non-functional testing within an agile environment. The position emphasizes the use of open-source test frameworks and requires the design of real-world test scenarios integrated into a continuous delivery pipeline. Candidates will also be responsible for maintaining test environments and simulating failures to ensure system resilience. This role is classified as outside IR35, allowing for flexible working arrangements with minimal site visits.
Key Responsibilities:
- Performing non-functional testing within an agile software development environment with CI/CD.
- Improve adoption of open source test frameworks.
- Building and designing real world test scenarios that are integrated into the continuous delivery pipeline.
- Maintain test environment and test injection infrastructure.
- Simulate failures and chaos testing to prove highly available and heavily resilient systems.
Key Skills:
- Strong Python programming language skills.
- Python based performance testing experience, tools such as Locust.
- Prometheus, Grafana essential.
- Unix/Linux systems.
- HTTP/HTTPS communication protocols.
- Monitoring/visualisation/time series database technologies (eg Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Splunk).
- Containerisation eg Docker, Kubernetes or Rancher.
- Strong problem-solving skills and experience investigating technical issues.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: London
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
- Performing non-functional testing within an agile software development environment with CI/CD.
- Improve adoption of open source test frameworks
- Building and designing real world test scenarios that are integrated into the continuous delivery pipeline
- Maintain test environment and test injection infrastructure
- Simulate failures and chaos testing to prove highly available and heavily resilient systems
Key skills
- Strong Python programming language skills
- Python based performance testing experience, tools such as Locust
- Prometheus, Grafana essential
- Unix/Linux systems
- HTTP/HTTPS communication protocols
- Monitoring/visualisation/time series database technologies (eg Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Splunk)
- containerisation eg Docker, Kubernetes or Rancher
- Strong problem-solving skills and experience investigating technical issues
remote based contract, 1-2 site visits per month, outside IR35
If you’re interested in this opportunity, please email your latest CV, or call James for more information.
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