Senior Test Engineer (Performance Testing)

Job summary

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.

Job description

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.

Person specification

To be successful in this role, you will hold the following:

• ISTQB Foundation in Software Testing
• Degree level or equivalent in Computing

You will have practitioner level experience of automated testing and automated test tools, as well as an understanding of environment needs and capabilities. You will be a practitioner in technical analysis and be able to absorb large amounts of conflicting information to determine solutions.

You will have practitioner level experience of automated performance testing and automated test tools, as well as be a practitioner in understanding environment needs and capabilities.

You must also be a practitioner in technical analysis, and be able to absorb large amounts of conflicting information to determine solutions.

You must be a practitioner in non-functioning tests and have experience in training and mentoring technical test skills.

You must be a practitioner in technical breadth over a range of tools and techniques and have strong analytical and troubleshooting skills. You must also have performance tuning and root cause analysis expertise.

You must be able to collaborate with development, infrastructure, operations, architecture, and business teams.

HMLR expect everyone to spend at least 60% of their working time in the office.

For more information about the role, please see the attached job description and candidate pack.

Qualifications

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

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Changing and Improving
• Communicating and Influencing
• Working Together
• Developing Self and Others
• Delivering at Pace

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £49,443, HM Land Registry contributes £14,323 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides (opens in a new window).

#WeAreHMLR

At HM Land Registry our vision is a world leading property market as part of a thriving economy and a sustainable future. We are unique in terms of the economic and social impacts of our work, our ability to make a positive difference to the lives of our customers, our sense of mission, and our great people. They are the foundation of all we have achieved and all we aspire to in the future. We want our people to feel proud to work for HM Land Registry and able to fulfil their full potential.

We have a strong and positive culture, a commitment to inclusivity, an emphasis on continuous learning and development, and flexible ways of working. We offer competitive pay and annual leave, attractive pension options and a wide range of other benefits.

• We have integrity– we value honesty, trust and doing the right thing in the right way.
• We drive innovation– we are forward-thinking, embrace change and are continually improving our processes.
• We are professional– we value and grow our knowledge and professional expertise.
• We give assurance– we guarantee our services and provide confidence to the property market.

You can find more information on our rewards package on our website.

Things you need to know

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance (opens in a new window) for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Selection process details

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 experiencecriteria detailed in the