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Performance Test Engineer

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Swansea, United Kingdom

£ 57,400 / year

Full Time

30-10-2024

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Would you like the opportunity to work with the latest technologies reaching 50 million users? The DVLA and Inspire People are partnering together to bring you an exciting opportunity for a Senior Performance Test Engineer to work on analysing and assuring the quality of DVLAs software to build products quickly and safely. As a Senior Performance Test Engineer at DVLA, you will help build world class digital services that pave the way for DVLAs business transformation. £40,808 plus up to £16,592 allowance and excellent Civil Service benefits and 28.97% pension. Flexible, hybrid working from Swansea, a great place to work, live and play, with a healthy work-life balance on how and where you work.

DVLA's Senior Performance Test Engineers are building service level performance test suites that ensure our digital services are thoroughly exercised to ensure they can perform at very high volumes and within agreed response times as expected for modern digital Government services. You will be a key member of a small but highly specialised testing function with responsibility for performance testing all DVLA digital service offerings. You will design, build and execute suites of performance tests for DVLA services that operate across both Legacy and Cloud infrastructure.

DVLA use a range of performance test tooling and methodologies which can vary to suit the services under test (including APIs, Web-based UIs and often a mix of Cloud hosted services that rely on Legacy Back End systems and data).

Job description
This test role will require you to join a small but very specialised test team that sits within the Quality Engineering (QE) function - in DVLA's Information Technology Service Creation (ITSC) department. This specialised performance test team can be called upon to assist with testing of new services, transformation initiatives, technical upgrades or applications changes with focus on performance requirements that usually include high volume services and measuring response times. The role will also provide specialist performance test support as required to our numerous Development Squads delivering these changes. As a key member of the Performance Test team, you will continuously strive to develop an increased understanding of new and emerging tools and approaches with a view to improving the test services offered.

Responsibilities
Include but are not limited to:
Performance testing activities across the full development lifecycle; from requirements gathering though to test execution, as part of the wider approach to QA and performance engineering.
Collaboration with different delivery partners to reduce the need to rework and refactor the application in later development cycles, optimising the value of design, development and testing.
Working in complex and highly integrated technical environments with other agile and DevOps product teams.
Using analytical techniques, including risk-based testing, and applying formal test analysis and design techniques where appropriate to the implementation of performance testing.
Promoting development of performance testing capabilities within the ITSC organisation, including continuous professional development and understanding of new and emerging industry leading technologies.
Working closely with other performance team members, the wider ITSC community plus project and business stakeholders on all aspects of Quality Assurance with particular attention to performance testing.
Applying knowledge and experience of different technical and product domains.
Person specification
The DVLA is at the cutting edge of cloud-first technologies and at the forefront of digital within government, providing new and improved services that are reliable, easy to use and offer value for money for our customers. With over 50 million driver records and over 40 million vehicle records, the opportunity to work at this scale is unrivalled across the region. DVLA's services generate billions in revenue and make a difference to the lives of 9 out of 10 households in the UK. As a member of the Performance test team you will be directly contributing to the success of these outcomes.

You will have a demonstrable passion for Performance Testing, with the following skills and experience:
Using JMeter, Influx, Grafana - these form the current toolset in use though extensive experience in any other industry recognised performance tooling may be considered.
Using Scripting languages such as Groovy.
Using SQL or other DB Scripting languages.
Using Unix or Linux systems and Shell or other similar.
Using AWS and/or Azure hosting platforms.
Performance test of Legacy infrastructure and applications or hybrid of Legacy with Cloud.
Setting up performance tests from requirements gathering through to test execution, using performance test to anticipate issues that might arise during different load conditions.
Analysing NFRs, technical designs and business requirements.
Establishing and maintaining relationships with multiple delivery partners and actively engaging stakeholders.
Developing yourself and the wider team through a range of activities that achieve current business goals, help to meet future challenges and build a capacity for change.
Strong team working and collaboration experience alongside proven ability to work independently to drive performance test requirements, execution and investigations as necessary.
Delivering performance test function across a range of Private and Public Sector organisations.
Working for the DVLA Digital Team
At DVLA, licensing is just the start. Every project you implement, touch and deliver has a ripple effect that'll wash across the nation. Here the work you're doing has the capacity to change the way 50 million people interact with our services. As DVLA aim to keep our roads some of the safest in the world, our innovative, transformative digital-led services help optimise a nation of individuals and business every single day.
How to Apply
You will be required to submit a CV providing detailed evidence of your experience of the following essential criteria:
Demonstrable hands-on experience of designing and writing performance test scripts for complex solutions.
Demonstrable experience of performance test tooling and methodologies.
Demonstrable experience of extensive team working and managing stakeholder expectations.
If you are an experienced Performance Test Engineer looking for your next career move, please apply or contact Charys Colchester for a confidential conversation.

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