Performance Test Engineer Lead

Can you help us to double in size? Do you understand the demands of scaling up an enterprise SaaS solution? Are you ready for the challenge of delivering the worlds fastest growing Active Digital Preservation solution knowing that it is safeguarding the worlds most precious digital assets?

We are Preservica and we are changing the way organizations safeguard their digital information. Our projects are at the razor’s edge of commercial software solutions addressing the need for smart digital preservation technologies. As a world-leader in digital preservation, our award-winning software is used by leading businesses, archives, libraries, museums and government organisations across the globe.

We are growing at pace and to maintain our cadence we believe in hiring strong technical talent and then supporting that talent to grow with us. Our offices are in Abingdon but this role could be either office based or hybrid with monthly office days. You should live within reasonable commute of Abingdon. 

The Role:

Working as part of our Software Quality team, you will play a key role in strategising, implementing, and optimising performance testing for our systems, ensuring robust, scalable, and high-performing applications. This is a hands-on position requiring both technical expertise and the ability to mentor junior team members while driving improvements in performance testing practices across the business.

Key Tasks and Responsibilities

• Design and implement detailed performance testing plans, including load, stress, endurance, and scalability testing. 

• Develop and maintain automated performance testing suites using tools like JMeter, Gatling, Neoload, LoadRunner or similar.

• Integrate automated performance tests into CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, TeamCity, or similar tools. 

• Establish and maintain key performance metrics through baseline vs. benchmarking analysis. 


• Conduct in-depth performance analysis using tools like Grafana, Prometheus, AWS CloudWatch, and Azure Insights. 

• Work closely with engineers and operational teams to diagnose and troubleshoot performance issues. 

Desired Experience:

• Expertise in Performance Testing tools such as JMeter, Gatling, LoadRunner, etc. 


• Hands on use of monitoring tools ie Prometheus, Grafana, AWS CloudWatch, or similar


• Experience with Jenkins, TeamCity, Kubernetes, Docker, Rabbit MQ (or similar)

• Ability to script and modify solutions in Python, Bash, Java, etc. 

• Experience with Playwright and TypeScript. 

• Relevant performance testing certifications or qualifications. 

Nice to haves:

• RDMS experience an advantage. 

• DevOps Experience, Terraform and/or Ansible. 

• Cloud Experience AWS and/or Azure 

• Line management experience 

What We Offer:

As well as a competitive salary and benefits package, we also offer great future prospects in a fast-growing market sector. From improving your technical abilities to developing leadership skills, we can offer tailored career development based on your aspirations. This is supported by our focus on personal development and training - all our staff have an annual training allowance, which can be used to learn new technologies, develop soft skills or earn recognised professional qualifications.

Preservica is an equal opportunities employer