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As a Performance Test Engineer (Senior Associate) in Kainos, you’ll work within a multi-skilled agile team, developing and executing Non-Functional tests. You’ll do this whilst learning about new technologies and approaches, with talented colleagues who will help you learn, develop and grow.
Minimum (essential) requirements:
Strong proficiency with performance testing tools (e.g., JMeter, Gatling)
Solid working knowledge of Java (or Scala) for scripting and custom logic
Deep understanding of HTTP, REST, JSON, and API performance testing principles
Experience designing and executing performance, load, and stress tests for web and API-based systems
Proven ability to analyse performance bottlenecks across application, database, and infrastructure layers
Experience with CI/CD integration for automated performance testing (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI, TeamCity)
Competence in analysing system metrics (CPU, memory, I/O, network) from logs and monitors
Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure) and distributed load testing
Understanding of database performance and query optimisation (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL, DynamoDB)
3+ years in performance testing/engineering roles
Demonstrated ability to collaborate with development and DevOps teams to resolve performance issues
Experience generating and communicating performance reports and KPIs to technical and non-technical audiences
Prior involvement in capacity planning, tuning, and production performance investigations
Familiarity with Agile delivery and testing practices
Desirable:
Experience building scalable and reusable performance testing frameworks
Ability to define and maintain performance benchmarks, KPIs, and baselines
Integration of performance testing into CI/CD pipelines for automated validation
Experience with performance monitoring dashboards (e.g., Grafana, Prometheus, AWS CloudWatch)
Exposure to end-to-end performance validation across cloud platforms (Azure, GCP, AWS)
Experience with trend analysis and comparative performance reporting across releases
Mentoring junior engineers in performance testing concepts, workload modelling, and analysis techniques
hackajob is partnering with Kainos to fill this position. Create a profile to be automatically considered for this role—and others that match your experience.