Performance Test Engineer - London

Performance Test Engineer- London
Location: London, UK
Competitive Salary + Package (dependent on experience)
Levels recruiting at: (Senior Analyst/Specialist/Associate Manager/Manager)

Please Note: Any offer of employment is subject to satisfactory BPSS and SC security clearance which requires 5 years continuous UK address history at the point of application.

Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services in strategy and consulting, interactive, technology and operations, with digital capabilities across all of these services. With our thought leadership and culture of innovation, we apply industry expertise, diverse skill sets and next-generation technology to each business challenge.

We believe in inclusion and diversity and supporting the whole person. Our core values comprise of Stewardship, Best People, Client Value Creation, One Global Network, Respect for the Individual and Integrity. Year after year, Accenture is recognized worldwide not just for business performance but for inclusion and diversity too.

“Across the globe, one thing is universally true of the people of Accenture: We care deeply about what we do and the impact we have with our clients and with the communities in which we work and live. It is personal to all of us.” – Julie Sweet, Accenture CEO

As a team:

You will be joining the Accenture UK/I Quality Engineering Practice which supports multiple industries and a broad range of services from strategic quality engineering consulting advice through to quality engineering delivery across all test fields. Quality Engineering and Assurance are some of the highest growth areas within the IT service market and are critical capabilities for delivering business change to support our clients.

You'll learn, grow and advance in an innovative environment that flourishes on shared success, innovative ways of thinking and enables boundaryless opportunities that can drive your career in new and exciting ways.

If you’re looking for an ambitious career working in a compelling environment with access to training and a global network of guides, this could be the for you. As part of our global team, you'll be working with ground breaking technologies and will have the opportunity to develop a wide range of new skills on the job.

In our team you will learn:

• How to provide solutions to real world problems across a variety of industries.
• How to help transform leading organisations and communities around the world. The sheer scale of our capabilities and client engagements and the way we collaborate, operate and deliver value provides an unparalleled opportunity to grow and advance.
• How best to develop your skills and hone your talents within an innovative technology environment
• Quality engineering professionals utilise Accenture delivery assets to plan and implement quality initiatives to ensure solution quality throughout delivery.

As a Performance Test Engineer you will:

• Get hands-on with groundbreaking technology solutions.
• Pursue a career based on Non-Functional fields including tooling and technologies, delivering industry leading solutions across all domains of Non-Functional Testing.
• Identify issues and risks, escalating and providing mitigating actions.
• Lead preparation, execution or review of Non-Functional Testing.
• Demonstrate experience in result analysis and presentation of easy to read reports.
• Learns skills in Performance Tooling such as LoadRunner, JMeter, Neo Load or Workload Scheduler.
• Become conversant in Analytics Tooling such as Splunk, Google Analytics, Grafana or Kibana.
• Build upon a good working experience in monitoring tools like App Dynamics

We are looking for experience in the following skills:

• Deep technology inquisitiveness - focusing on key details whilst appreciating their fit in, and impact to, the end to end architecture.

• A passion to deliver critical client system to a very high level of resiliency and operability.

• A detailed understanding of architectural components across sophisticated, multi-tiered architectures.

• An ability to conduct deep technical analysis – figuring out indicators are key of solution success or failure.

• A clear thought process for investigating technical issues and steering investigations across wider groups.

• Validated leadership in implementation of Non-Functional Test Strategies and Test Plans.

• Ability to working in changing and exciting environments, adapting to changing requirements and priorities at short notice.

• Defect Management lifecycle experience, including tooling such as JIRA, Bugzilla or HP ALM.

• Knowledge of API /web services testing tools, such as Postman, Insomnia

• Strong understanding of performance testing end to end (Workload modelling/Execution/Report analysis/Recommendations for improvement)

Set yourself apart:

• Experience in leading teams and/or across multiple projects and/or geographical location.

What’s in it for you

At Accenture in addition to a competitive basic salary, you will also have an extensive benefits package which includes 25 days’ vacation per year, private medical insurance and 3 extra days leave per year for charitable work of your choice!

Flexibility and mobility are required to deliver this role as there will be requirements to spend time onsite with our clients and partners to enable delivery of the first-class services we are known for.

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services in strategy and consulting, interactive, technology and operations, with digital capabilities across all of these services. We combine unmatched experience and specialized capabilities across more than 40 industries — powered by the world’s largest network of Advanced Technology and Intelligent Operations centers. With 509,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture brings continuous innovation to help clients improve their performance and create lasting value across their enterprises. Visit us at www.accenture.com

Accenture is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of society and does not discriminate on grounds of race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, or gender identity, or any other basis as protected by applicable law.

Closing Date for Applications 31/08/2023

Accenture reserves the right to close the role prior to this date should a suitable applicant be found.

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