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# Performance Tester

- **Company:** DCV Technologies Limited
- **Location:** Reading, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £117,000.0 - £130,000.0
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Agile Methodology, Application Performance Management, DevOps, HP Loadrunner, Apache JMeter, Performance Testing, Neoload, Test Scripts, Appdynamics, Dynatrace
- **Published:** August 7, 2026
- **Apply:** https://jobsthamesvalley.co.uk/jobs/apply/ats-redirect/?id=2913694458-2

## About the Role

* 5 10 years of experience in Performance Testing / Non-functional Testing
 * Strong experience with JMeter, LoadRunner, or NeoLoad
 * Understanding of workload modelling and performance engineering concepts
 * Experience in Agile / DevOps environments
 * Experience in utilities or billing systems is highly desirable

Key Deliverables

 * Performance Test Strategy and Plan
 * Test Scripts and Workload Models
 * Execution Reports and Dashboards
 * Bottleneck Analysis and RCA
 * Performance Test Summary and Sign-off Report

Desirable skills/knowledge/experience:

 * Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
 * Excellent communication and stakeholder management
 * Ability to work in multi-vendor environments
 * Proactive risk identification and mitigation

## Description

* Analyse performance testing requirements including user load, throughput, transaction volumes, and usage patterns
 * Prepare Performance Test Strategy and Test Plan aligned to program milestones
 * Design and develop performance test scripts using JMeter and/or LoadRunner
 * Execute load, stress, endurance, and volume testing
 * Monitor application performance using tools such as Dynatrace, AppDynamics, or Azure Monitor
 * Analyse results and identify bottlenecks and system limitations
 * Prepare performance reports and tuning recommendations
 * Manage performance defects through to resolution
 * Support dual run validation ensuring stable billing operations
 * Validate high-volume transactions across multiple integrated systems.


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