Senior Performance and Availability Testing Specialist - SC Cleared

Working on major projects for a prestigious government client. The right candidate will have 3+ years experience in performance testing and hold current SC/CTC clearance or willing to undergo clearance.

Technical requirements:

- Non-Functional test life cycle from setting NF objectives/requirements gathering through to project completion.
- Experience in gathering NF requirements on multiple projects.
- Designed load profiles based on usage data.
- Created test assets with a variety of different NF tools.
- Developed and interpreted IT resource monitoring in both Unix and Windows environments.
- Collated and presented results on multiple projects to management.
- Experience of multiple load and monitoring tools including freeware if possible. eg LoadRunner, Jmeter, AppDynamics.
- Tool certification an advantage, eg LoadRunner certification
- Experience of failure testing preferred.
- Programming/development experience for at least three years. Coding in multiple languages is desirable.

Project experience:

- Experience in Agile environments
- Experienced in testing of mobile applications and platforms.
- Virtualisation experience
- Linux/Unix and Windows testing experience

Attributes:

- Good communicator, both written and verbal, must be able to interact well with management and key stakeholders.
- Initiative and drive - must be able to progress work without close supervision
- Flexibility - must be prepared to adopt new approaches quickly and accept frequent unplanned change.
- Have lived in the UK for the last 5 years and hold current SC/CTC clearance or prepared to undergo clearance.

MUST HAVE STRONG REFERENCES.