Performance Tester

Skills
IBM Identity And Access ManagementPerformance Testing
Role

What the job involves

The main requirements, responsibilities and hiring steps.

Requirements

  • Experience testing IAM platforms within complex enterprise infrastructure
  • Proven delivery of performance and non-functional testing in large global environments
  • Strong expertise in cloud-based testing including containerised serverless and cloud-native applications
  • Experience defining programme-wide testing strategy covering scope environments tooling risks and resourcing
  • Hands-on knowledge of tools such as JMeter Gatling LoadRunner NeoLoad or similar
  • Strong scripting or coding capability in Python Java Cypher or Scala
  • Experience with database performance analysis query optimisation connection pooling and monitoring tools
  • Knowledge of message queue performance event-driven architecture API testing batch ETL testing and test data generation
  • Strong communication skills with the ability to report clearly on status risks and issues
  • Experience leading mentoring and developing testing engineers
  • Familiarity with CI/CD GitOps Infrastructure as Code monitoring alerting and operational acceptance testing

Nice to have

  • Graph database knowledge
  • APM tool familiarity
  • Docker/Kubernetes awareness
  • GitLab CI/CD exposure
  • DevSecOps mindset
  • SaaS testing exposure

Day to day

  • Own the end-to-end performance and non-functional testing capability across a large global IAM transformation programme.
  • Define and maintain testing strategy, roadmap, tooling, environments, and resourcing for scalable delivery.
  • Lead testing across load, stress, volume, resilience, failover, high availability, and disaster recovery scenarios while analysing metrics and recommending remediation.