Senior Test Engineer (Performance Testing)

It is an exciting time for HM Land Registry (HMLR) as we continue on a major transformation programme. HMLR's ambition is to become the world’s leading land registry for speed, simplicity and an open approach to data.

HMLR are recruiting for a Senior Test Engineer (performance testing) to join our Transformation and Technology team to help us achieve this.

HM Land Registry's existing software systems and services form part of the critical national infrastructure, safeguarding land and property ownership valued at £8 trillion. This enables over £1 trillion worth of personal and commercial lending to be secured against property across England and Wales.

In the role of Senior Test Engineer (performance testing), your main duties will consist of:

• Advocate best practice leading through practical examples and guidance
• Define and maintain performance test strategy, plan and the approaches
• Perform in depth reviews reporting quality improvements and successes
• Establish performance testing standards, processes and governance
• Develop reusable frameworks and automation assets
• Ensure performance testing is integrated into delivery plans
• Provide leadership and direction to performance testers and engineers
• Validate requirements against user demand and expected workload
• Innovate and generate tooling to assist testing tasks and potential future issues
• Ensure clear acceptance criteria are agreed
• Define performance test approaches for programmes and projects
• Develop the scripts, parameterize, correlate, and maintain reusable performance test scripts using LoadRunner
• Design realistic user journeys and business workload models aligned with production usage patterns to ensure appropriate workload modelling
• Conduct Load, Stress, Spike, Endurance (Soak), Volume, Scalability, and Capacity Testing
• Work with business and technical stakeholders to define measurable NFR’s
• Analyse performance test results & Utilize APM and observability tools such as OpenShift, Grafana, and Cloudwatch.
• Monitor application health metrics including response times, throughput, CPU utilization, memory consumption, disk I/O, thread counts, and network latency.
• Provide tuning recommendations for application code, JVM, middleware, databases, caching, and infrastructure components.
• Collaborate with developers and architects to optimize system performance.

This role may involve occasional travel which may include stays away from home.

This role may include weekend working to provide support to live assurance testing during deployment to Production.

• ISTQB Foundation in Software Testing
• Degree level or equivalent in Computing or significant experience working in a related field.

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

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This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.

Please attach your CV when prompted detailing your qualifications and work history. You must also attach your Certificate for ISTQB Foundation in Software Testing and Degree level or equivalent in Computing. The qualification is essential for this role and failure to attach it will result in your application not being progressed any further.

Your CV will be assessed against the essential experience criteria detailed in the attached Job Description.

The Personal Statement section (in no more than 750 words) should be used to outline your wider skills and experience for the role and detail how you meet the essential experience criteria listed below:

• Give examples in your statement, and detail how your performance testing experience will demonstrate the following essential criteria
• Practitioner level experience of automated performance testing and automated test tools
• Practitioner in technical analysis. Absorb large amounts of conflicting information to determine solutions
• Performance tuning and root cause analysis expertise.

If successful at sift, you will be invited to attend a virtual, blended interview, which will be held through Microsoft Teams which will include a 10 minute pre-prepared presentation detailing the value you have brought to your roles as a performance tester with real life examples. Further information will be provided to those invited to interview. Interviews will be held shortly after the sift.

Please review your application form before clicking ‘submit’ – once you have submitted, you will not be able to amend your application. Ensure your application form is received by the closing date for receipt of applications – this is 23:55pm on the advertised date.

• Please note we may be sifting whilst this campaign is open so we encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible *

Candidates may refer to notes within their video interview but they should be used as a prompt only.

The blended interview will assess the behaviours and experience listed in the candidate pack.

HMLR is accredited to the Disability Confidence Scheme, which denotes organisations which have a positive attitude towards disabled people. Disabled applicants who meet the minimum essential criteria at the shortlisting stage are guaranteed an invitation to interview. If any candidate requires the panel to consider a reasonable adjustment or there is anything else they would like the panel to take into consideration they are asked to notify us of this at application stage where possible or during the process as soon as it becomes a requirement.

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