Performance Tester
The Opportunity:
A major Australian retailer is resetting how quality is engineered across its digital platforms.
  
Testing today still leans heavily on manual processes. That model doesn’t hold at scale. The shift is toward automation, performance engineering, and embedding quality directly into engineering teams.
  
This role sits inside that transition. It’s not about increasing test coverage. It’s about changing how testing is done.
  
The Role:

• This is positioned as a hybrid QA role, but in practice, performance testing is the differentiator. Automation is expected.
• The focus is on how deeply you understand system behaviour under load, performance bottlenecks, and how to design a testing approach around that.
• 60–70% performance and automation, with a strong lean toward performance.
• 30–40% functional/manual testing, where automation isn’t yet practical
• You’ll work directly with engineers across APIs and services, shaping how testing is approached rather than inheriting a defined process.
• This isn’t execution-heavy QA. You’re expected to think in systems, not test cases.  

Your Responsibilities:

• Design performance testing approaches based on system architecture and real-world usage
• Build and execute load, stress, spike and endurance tests across services and APIs
• Analyse metrics to identify bottlenecks, failure points, and scaling limits
• Work closely with engineers to diagnose performance issues and validate improvements
• Contribute to automation frameworks and CI/CD-integrated testing practices
• Assess what should be automated, performance tested, or remain manual
• Support functional testing where required, while reducing reliance on it over time

What you'll bring:

• Strong hands-on experience in performance testing, not just exposure
• Experience designing performance strategies, not just executing scripts
• Must have familiarity with k6
• Solid JavaScript or TypeScript fundamentals
• Experience working across APIs, microservices, and distributed systems
• Comfortable interpreting performance metrics, graphs, and system behaviour under load
• Experience with observability tools such as Grafana, Dynatrace, or similar
• Background in automation testing and CI/CD environments
• Able to operate in an environment that is still evolving, not fully mature

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