Performance Test Engineer - 18 month maximum contract role
CMC Markets2 months ago
Sydney, AustraliaSenior
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain reusable performance and load testing frameworks and scripts using k6.
- Define and implement performance testing strategies, standards, KPIs, SLAs, and non-functional requirements.
- Design and execute load, stress, endurance, scalability, and other non-functional tests.
- Analyze system behavior, performance metrics, and bottlenecks across application, database, and infrastructure layers.
- Test C#/.NET applications and cloud-native architectures deployed in AWS across on-premise and cloud environments.
- Integrate performance tests into CI/CD pipelines and collaborate with developers, architects, and DevOps teams to diagnose issues and validate fixes.
- Produce performance test reports with actionable recommendations and support capacity planning and performance tuning.
- Advocate for performance testing best practices across engineering teams.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience as a Performance Tester.
- Strong experience in performance and non-functional testing.
- Strong experience with k6 and JavaScript-based scripting.
- Experience testing C#/.NET applications.
- Solid understanding of AWS cloud architecture and distributed systems.
- Experience with REST APIs, HTTP protocols, and JSON.
- Ability to analyze CPU, memory, latency, throughput, and error-rate performance metrics.
- Familiarity with CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions.
- Strong problem-solving and stakeholder communication skills.
- Understanding of financial services or stockbroking platforms is beneficial but not essential.
Benefits
- 18-month maximum-term contract.
- Five days per week in the office.
- Five additional annual leave entitlements each year through My Days, plus five extra annual leave days after 12 months.
- Birthday leave and one annual charity day.
- Continuous technical and performance training through the learning and development program.
- Benefits and wellbeing hub with retailer discounts and wellbeing resources.
- Free breakfast cereals, condiments, and coffee in the office.
- Staff and family trading accounts with access to $0 trades for domestic and international equity orders.
- Culture club activities including fitness, pizza-making classes, social events, trivia, and lawn bowls.
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