Overview

Job Vacancy Senior Performance Test Engineer – Newcastle upon Tyne. DWP Digital. Published on 03/09/2025.

Senior Performance Test Engineer

Pay up to £71,017, plus 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and great work life balance.

DWP. Digital with Purpose.

You and the role

If you're passionate about making sure systems run smoothly under pressure and want to help build services that millions of people rely on every day, this could be the role for you. You’ll be part of an agile, forward-thinking team working on high-impact projects. Your job? Making sure our systems are fast, reliable and ready for anything. You’ll lead performance testing across key services, work closely with developers and architects and bring your expertise to everything from test automation to CI/CD integration. It’s a hands-on role where you’ll shape strategy, mentor others and help us stay ahead of the curve. You’ll need to be comfortable working with tools like JMeter or K6, have experience with AWS and Kubernetes and know your way around Git pipelines. If you love solving problems, spotting bottlenecks and making things better, we want to hear from you.

What skills, knowledge and experience will you need?

• Significant demonstrable experience Performance Test Engineer / Lead in an agile team with a pragmatic, strategic mindset with focus on systems scalability and sustainability
• Extensive experience in performance testing APIs, UIs, microservices and enterprise databases (e.g.- MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Oracle).
• Detailed working knowledge with practical experience and skill at identifying performance bottlenecks cross application and infrastructure layers.
• Strong working knowledge and practical experience of performance testing tools (JMeter and K6) and performance monitoring tools like Grafana, Kibana, Kiali, Prometheus and AWS CloudWatch.
• Detailed working knowledge and familiarity with IaC and modern DevOps practices

Details. Wages. Perks.

Location: You’ll join us in one of our brilliant digital hubs in Birmingham, Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle or Sheffield, whichever is most convenient for you.

Hybrid Working: We work a hybrid model - you’ll spend some time working at home and some time collaborating face to face in a hub.

Pay: We offer competitive pay of up to £71,017.

Pension: You’ll get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions worth 28.97%, worth over £16,000 per year.

Holidays: A generous leave package starting at 26 days rising to 31 days over time. You can also take up to 3 extra days off a month on flexi-time. You’ll also get all the usual public holidays.

Benefits

• An award-winning environment and culture: Employer of the Year 2023 (Women In IT Awards), Founders Award for Outstanding Digital Leadership 2023 (Digital 100)
• Flexible working including flexible hours and flex-friendly policies
• Time off volunteering and charitable giving
• Bring your authentic self to work with 'I Can Be Me in DWP'
• Discounts and savings on shopping, fun days out and more
• Interest-free loans to buy a bike or a season ticket, so it's even easier for you to get to work and start making a difference
• Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities.