About this role

Job Title: Senior Non-Functional Tester

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Non-Functional Tester to join our team. The ideal candidate will possess a strong background in non-functional testing, including performance, reliability, and observability testing, with hands-on experience in various testing tools and frameworks.

Design, develop, and execute comprehensive non-functional test plans including performance, load, stress, scalability, security, reliability, and availability testing.

Required qualifications and experience

- Relevant testing process qualification (ISTQB or equivalent)

- Non-Functional Testing (NFT) test preparation, execution, and reporting experience, including presenting results

- 5+ years of relevant experience

- Experience with API Testing including chaining requests, parameterisation, and functional proving

- Ability to create testing frameworks using the following tools:

- - Postman

- - JMeter

- - Load Runner

- - Azure

- Experience with observability tools (ideally Datadog)

Good to have

- Smart Meter experience (SMETS 1 & 2)

- Energy domain knowledge

- Business Continuity Non-Functional Testing experience (in addition to performance)

- Experience with Jira and Confluence

R e sponsibilities

- Collaborate with development, infrastructure, DevOps, and functional QA teams to understand architecture and business requirements.

- Analyze test results to identify bottlenecks, memory leaks, and performance degradation; provide detailed root cause analysis and recommendations.

- Establish benchmarks, test environments, and monitoring solutions to support ongoing system performance evaluation.

- Conduct security and vulnerability assessments in collaboration with the InfoSec team.

- Develop and maintain automated scripts for continuous performance testing as part of CI/CD pipelines.

- Provide guidance and mentorship to junior testers and contribute to best practice sharing and process improvement.

- Prepare detailed test reports and dashboards for stakeholders, including risk assessments and mitigation strategies.