Senior Performance Test Engineer | Contract
2 days ago
Newcastle upon Tyne
Senior Performance Test Engineer | Contract \n £450-£550 per day | Outside IR35 | ASAP Start | Initial 3 Months | Remote \n We're supporting a client delivering a large-scale digital platform and are seeking an experienced Senior Performance Test Engineer to join an Agile delivery team. \n This is a hands-on role focused on designing, executing, and optimising performance testing strategies across cloud-based applications and API-driven services. You'll play a key role in ensuring systems are scalable, resilient, and capable of delivering excellent performance under varying levels of demand. \n Key Skills Required \n\n • Strong commercial experience as a Performance Test Engineer\n, • Expert-level experience with K6 (essential)\n, • Strong experience working within Microsoft Azure environments (essential)\n, • Proven experience of API Performance Testing, including load, stress, endurance, and scalability testing\n, • Experience testing applications built on cloud-based architectures (essential)\n, • Ability to analyse performance bottlenecks across APIs, applications, and infrastructure\n, • Experience creating and maintaining performance test scripts and frameworks\n, • Understanding of performance engineering principles and best practices\n, • Experience integrating performance testing into CI/CD pipelines\n, • Strong stakeholder communication skills and the ability to present performance findings and recommendations\n\n Desirable Skills \n\n • Experience with Gatling, JMeter, or LoadRunner\n, • Azure monitoring and observability tools including Azure Monitor and Application Insights\n, • Experience testing asynchronous workflows and event-driven architectures\n, • Exposure to distributed systems and microservices-based environments\n, • Knowledge of performance monitoring, diagnostics, and capacity planning\n\n Contract Details \n Contract: 3 months initiallyStart: ASAPRate: £450-£550 per dayIR35: Outside IR35 \n If you're an experienced Performance Test Engineer with strong K6 and Azure expertise, we'd love to hear from you. This is an excellent opportunity to work on a high-profile digital programme, helping to ensure performance, scalability, and resilience across critical cloud-based services.