Performance Test Lead (Contract role)

About us:

We are NCS Australia! We have brought together Australia’s best tech talent, working as one to harness technology and advance our communities, to make the extraordinary happen.

We're proud of our rich history of partnering with our clients to develop end to end digital technology solutions to accelerate their transformation and innovation journey. For over 40+ years our diverse global teams have delivered large-scale, mission-critical, multi-platform projects to governments and enterprises. 

The Performance Test Lead will be responsible for leading the end-to-end performance testing strategy, planning, execution, and reporting for enterprise applications. This role requires a hands-on technical expert who can design and execute performance tests while providing leadership and guidance to a team of performance testers and engineers. The ideal candidate will have strong analytical and problem-solving skills, experience in performance tuning, and the ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure systems meet performance, scalability, and reliability goals.

The Performance Test Lead leads the design and execution of performance testing strategies to ensure applications meet scalability, stability, and responsiveness goals. The role involves developing and executing load, stress, and endurance tests, analyzing results to pinpoint bottlenecks, and driving performance optimization across application and infrastructure layers. The Lead oversees and mentors a team of performance testers, manages workloads, ensures quality outcomes, and collaborates closely with development and architecture teams. Additionally, the role delivers detailed reports, communicates insights to stakeholders, and champions continuous improvement by integrating performance testing into CI/CD pipelines and adopting modern tools and best practices.

• Understanding of software engineering and performance testing concepts and methodologies.
• Strong leadership experience managing a team of performance testers
• Proficiency in using performance testing tools such as NeoLoad, JMeter, LoadRunner
• Knowledge of programming languages such as Java, C#, Python, or others used for scripting performance tests.
• Ability to analyse and interpret performance test results and identify performance bottlenecks.
• Familiarity with system monitoring and profiling tools.
• Good communication skills to collaborate with development and operations teams.
• Understanding of web technologies, databases, and network protocols.
• Experience with performance tuning and optimization techniques.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms and virtualization technologies.
• Knowledge of agile practices and relevant tools like JIRA, Confluence, Git, and Bitbucket for effective collaboration and tracking of performance testing tasks and results.
   

Why join us: 

NCS Australia is where you can feel at home, nurturing your talents and skills as we make tomorrow together, one day at a time. Our benefits include paid parental leave, initiatives focused on your well-being and discounted health insurance. You will also enjoy discounts on various products and services and be regularly recognised and rewarded for high performance. We are committed to your career development through our Capability Fingerprint, industry and partner training programs, special interest groups, and an AI-driven learning platform. No matter where you are in your career, we offer meaningful work and opportunities for growth.

NCS Australia is an equal-opportunity employer, and we take pride in our commitment to valuing and supporting our people and the communities we serve.We are dedicated to attracting, retaining and developing our people regardless of gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability and age. Applications are encouraged from all sectors of the community and we strongly encourage applications from the Veterans, Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander community.

At NCS Australia, we are committed to supporting adjustments throughout the recruitment and selection process, as well as during employment. We actively support and encourage people with disability to apply. 

Agencies:

We’ve got this. We request that you do not contact NCS employees outside of the Talent Acquisition team. NCS exclusively accepts resumes from agencies on our preferred supplier panel through the NCS Agency Portal. Agencies that submit resumes must have a valid fee agreement and be assigned to the particular requisition by the Talent Acquisition team. Any resumes that are submitted outside of this process will become the sole property of NCS. If a candidate is hired outside of this process, no fee or payment will be given.

Work rights and background checks: 

To be eligible for a position with us, applicants will need to have valid work rights for Australia and be willing to undergo a comprehensive background checking process, including probity and police checks