About this role
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On behalf of ONS , we are looking for a Senior Manual Tester (INSIDE IR35) until 31/03/2027 contract based Remotely with occasional travel to the Newport office .
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) is the UK’s largest producer of official statistics, covering a range of key economic, social and demographic topics. These include measuring changes in the value of the UK economy, estimating the size, geographic distribution and characteristics of the population, and providing indicators of price inflation, employment, earnings, crime and migration.
As a Senior Manual Tester, your main responsibilities will be:
- Establish repeatable performance testing approaches and standards.
- Define performance benchmarks and acceptance criteria for key platforms.
- Support performance assurance for future onboarding and service changes.
- Develop reusable test assets, scripts and frameworks.
- Identify opportunities to automate performance testing within delivery pipelines.
- Support performance monitoring and evidence-based capacity planning.
SC Clearance is an essential requirement for this role, as a minimum you must be willing & eligible to undergo checks. Please note, due to the exceptional requirements of this position (short-term nature of this role and speed at which we require a postholder in situ) preference may be given to candidates who meet all of the essential criteria and hold active security clearance.
Essential:
- Performance test tools - ideally Locust and/or JMeter
- Python - scripting
- SQL - ideally analysing and optimizing Postgres SQL queries
- Experienced working within GCP
- Kubernetes
Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.
Disability Confident
As a Disability Confident employer, ONS encourage applications from disabled and neurodivergent candidates . Applications from candidates who identify as having a disability and meet the essential criteria for the role will be prioritised for review. Where application volumes are high, additional role-specific and desirable criteria may be applied as part of the shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.
Armed Forces Covenant
As a signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant, ONS welcome applications from veterans, service leavers, reservists and military spouses or partners. Applications from eligible candidates who meet the essential criteria for the role will be prioritised for review. Where application volumes are high, additional role-specific and desirable criteria may be applied as part of the shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.
In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following "this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different".