Non-Functional Test Lead

Salary: £? - ? per year

Requirements:

• Proven experience leading non-functional testing on large-scale enterprise transformation programmes.
• Strong background in performance, volume and operations acceptance testing.
• Experience defining and implementing performance testing strategies.
• Hands-on experience with JMeter and/or LoadRunner.
• Experience monitoring application performance using New Relic.
• Strong understanding of performance analysis, bottleneck identification and optimisation.
• Excellent stakeholder management and leadership skills.

Responsibilities:

• Define and own the end-to-end non-functional testing strategy across our programme.
• Lead the Volume and Performance Testing and Operations Acceptance Testing teams.
• Establish performance test plans, scenarios and success criteria aligned to business and technical requirements.
• Monitor, analyse and report on performance metrics, providing clear recommendations to stakeholders.
• Drive performance optimisation by identifying bottlenecks and working with engineering teams to resolve issues.
• Champion resilience testing, including the adoption of chaos engineering practices.
• Ensure operational readiness through effective OAT planning and execution.
• Work closely with development, infrastructure and DevOps teams throughout the delivery lifecycle.
• Produce regular reporting on testing progress, risks, defects and quality metrics.

Technologies:

• DevOps
• JMeter

More:

We are hiring a Non-Functional Test Lead for a large-scale enterprise transformation programme. This is a £700/day Inside IR35 contract running until March 2027, based in Leeds with three days per week onsite and an ASAP start. You will join us in a key leadership role, working across engineering, architecture and delivery teams to ensure our platform is resilient, scalable and ready for production.

last updated 32 week of 2026