Performance Tester

DWS is seeking a highly skilled Performance Tester with demonstrated experience delivering performance testing outcomes within banking, financial services, wealth management, superannuation, or similarly regulated environments. This role will play a key part in ensuring the performance, scalability, reliability, and resilience of critical enterprise platforms, supporting rapid delivery within a high-frequency release environment while maintaining exceptional customer experiences.

Where: Sydney, Australia
Type: Max Term
Start: ASAP
Length: 12 months
Style: Hybrid; 3+ days onsite
Salary: Up to $185K package

Role Requirements:

• Banking, financial services, wealth management, or superannuation experience is essential.
• Strong understanding of risk, compliance, security, and operational requirements associated with enterprise financial services platforms.
• Strong experience in performance testing and performance engineering.
• Hands-on experience with k6 (preferred), JMeter, or equivalent performance testing tools.
• Design, develop, execute, and maintain comprehensive performance testing strategies and frameworks.
• Create and maintain performance test scripts using k6, JMeter, or other industry-standard performance testing tools.
• Conduct load, stress, endurance, scalability, and volume testing across distributed applications and services.
• Analyse performance test results, identify bottlenecks, and provide actionable recommendations to development and engineering teams.
• Perform performance testing across:
  • Web applications
  • Mobile applications
  • APIs and microservices
  • Databases
  • Backend systems and integrations
• Collaborate with Solution Architects and Engineering teams to translate solution architectures into performance testing and DevOps testing components.
• Integrate performance testing within CI/CD pipelines to support automated quality gates and continuous performance validation.
• Partner with stakeholders to define performance requirements, service level objectives, and capacity planning strategies.
• Support on-demand testing requirements within a fast-paced, high-frequency release environment.
• Review and assess performance testing approaches implemented by other testing teams to ensure consistency, quality standards, and best practice alignment.
• Provide performance engineering expertise throughout project planning, solution design, development, and release cycles.
• Produce clear and comprehensive performance test reports, findings, and recommendations for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong understanding of modern DevOps practices and automated testing frameworks.
• Knowledge of application architecture, system integration patterns, and cloud-native environments.
• Experience identifying bottlenecks across application, API, infrastructure, and database layers.
• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong planning, estimation, and prioritisation skills.
• Experience operating within Agile and DevOps environments.
• Experience supporting organisations with frequent production deployments and rapid release cycles.
• Exposure to observability and monitoring tools such as Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Grafana, Splunk, or similar platforms

About Us:

Since 1991, DWS has been helping organisations across Australia reimagine what's possible through technology, business, and management consulting. With offices in Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, Brisbane, and Canberra, our 300+ locally based consultants bring deep expertise and fresh thinking to every project. We deliver end-to-end solutions spanning IT consulting, Staff Augmentation, Managed Delivery, Data & Analytics, Cloud, AI and Automation.

Our strength lies in our people; each consultant is carefully selected for their expertise, creativity, and commitment to excellence. Together, we deliver impactful solutions that drive innovation, efficiency, and long-term value. At DWS, we don't just meet expectations - we redefine them.

Applicants must hold Australian Citizenship, Permanent Residency (PR), or other permanent work rights. DWS is unable to sponsor or support visas.

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