Senior Performance Test Engineer Private Sector
Type: Contract
Location: Dublin, Hybrid
Salary:
What’s involved:
- Define and execute performance testing strategies for critical customer-facing platforms
- Design workload models and performance benchmarks using JMeter and BlazeMeter
- Analyse results, identify bottlenecks, and drive performance improvements
- Establish performance baselines and regression thresholds as part of release readiness
- Support resilience and operational testing, including failure and chaos testing scenarios
- Work closely with Engineering and SRE teams to ensure scalable, reliable solutions
What you need:
- Proven expertise in performance testing using JMeter and BlazeMeter
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, APIs, and microservices architectures
- Experience diagnosing performance issues and analysing system behaviour under load
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and automated performance testing practices
- Strong communication skills with the ability to influence technical stakeholders