Job Description

Performance Tester | AWS + Gatling | Melbourne

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I'm currently recruiting for an exciting Performance Engineer prospect with a high-volume digital organisation in Melbourne.

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This is a great opportunity for a performance engineer who enjoys going beyond simply running tests — getting into how systems behave under load, identifying bottlenecks, improving scalability and helping engineering teams build highly resilient platforms.

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What you'll be doing

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- Design and execute performance and load testing strategies
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- Develop and maintain performance test scripts and tooling
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- Analyse system behaviour across applications, APIs, data and infrastructure
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- Identify performance issues, bottlenecks and scalability risks
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- Work closely with engineering, delivery and operational teams
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- Contribute to capacity planning and usage modelling
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- Support the development of highly scalable, resilient and recoverable systems
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- Help develop performance engineering capability across the wider technology organisation
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- Integrate performance testing into CI/CD pipelines
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What we're looking for

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Essential:





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- Strong commercial experience in Performance Engineering / Performance Testing
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- Hands-on experience with Gatling
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- Strong experience working with AWS / public cloud
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- Experience developing quality code and working with software development practices
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- CI/CD experience, ideally with Jenkins and/or GitHub
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- Strong Git experience
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- Good understanding of *nix/Linux environments
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- Ability to deep-dive into technical issues and drive resolution
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- 4+ years' experience in performance engineering
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Nice to have:

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- Python
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- AWS CloudFormation
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- JMeter or other performance testing tools
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- SQL
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- Log analysis / monitoring tools
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- Test automation frameworks
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Why consider it?

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This isn't a traditional QA role. You'll have the opportunity to work across the full technology stack, influence how systems are designed for scale, and play a key role in ensuring platforms can handle significant and unpredictable volumes.

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