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Salary: £? - ? per year
Requirements: Proven experience leading non-functional testing on large-scale enterprise transformation programmes.Strong background in performance, volume and operations acceptance testing.Experience defining and implementing performance testing strategies.Hands-on experience with JMeter and/or LoadRunner.Experience monitoring application performance using New Relic.Strong understanding of performance analysis, bottleneck identification and optimisation.Excellent stakeholder management and leadership skills. Responsibilities: Define and own the end-to-end non-functional testing strategy across our programme.Lead the Volume and Performance Testing and Operations Acceptance Testing teams.Establish performance test plans, scenarios and success criteria aligned to business and technical requirements.Monitor, analyse and report on performance metrics, providing clear recommendations to stakeholders.Drive performance optimisation by identifying bottlenecks and working with engineering teams to resolve issues.Champion resilience testing, including the adoption of chaos engineering practices.Ensure operational readiness through effective OAT planning and execution.Work closely with development, infrastructure and DevOps teams throughout the delivery lifecycle.Produce regular reporting on testing progress, risks, defects and quality metrics. Technologies: DevOpsJMeter More:
We are hiring a Non-Functional Test Lead for a large-scale enterprise transformation programme. This is a £700/day Inside IR35 contract running until March 2027, based in Leeds with three days per week onsite and an ASAP start. You will join us in a key leadership role, working across engineering, architecture and delivery teams to ensure our platform is resilient, scalable and ready for production.
last updated 29 week of 2026