Performance Tester

The Testing & Quality Assurance (TQA) section within the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry are seeking an experienced Performance Test lead to support the ongoing enhancement, optimisation, and maintenance of enterprise performance testing capabilities. This role requires a strong technical background, leadership experience, and a commitment to driving best practices across performance engineering and testing activities. To be successful in this role, you will: Demonstrate a minimum of six years‘ experience in a Performance Test Lead or similar senior performance testing role. Contribute to the development, improvement, and governance of performance testing frameworks, standards, best practices, and guardrails. Apply strong technical expertise in performance testing tools and associated technologies, such as LoadRunner, JMeter, Azure Load Testing and Azure DevOps. Possess hands-on experience with monitoring and observability tools, such as Wireshark, Splunk, and Azure Monitor. Demonstrate programming and scripting experience in one or more languages, including JavaScript, TypeScript, C#, Java, Python, and PowerShell. Exhibit excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to effectively tailor messaging to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Build strong working relationships and collaborate effectively across multidisciplinary teams to achieve shared outcomes. Apply strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to independently investigate, troubleshoot, and resolve complex issues in a timely manner. Maintain a high level of attention to detail and a strong commitment to quality assurance and continuous improvement. Experience supporting performance testing within complex enterprise environments. A proactive approach to identifying performance risks and driving remediation strategies. A commitment to fostering a culture of quality, innovation, and continuous improvement across delivery teams. Desirable attributes: Hold relevant industry certifications such as ISTQB Certified Tester Foundation Level (CTFL), ISTQB Performance Testing Certification or Micro Focus LoadRunner Certification. Key duties and responsibilities Under the direction of Section leadership, you will be responsible for, but not limited to: Leading the ongoing maintenance, enhancement, and support of the Department's performance testing capability, including LoadRunner and JMeter-based performance testing framework and associated tooling. Leading and coordinate platform maintenance, uplift, and management activities, including tool configuration, patching and version upgrades. Provide expert advice and troubleshooting support for complex performance testing issues and technical challenges. Provide technical leadership, governance, and oversight for projects utilising LoadRunner and related performance testing solutions. Design, develop, execute, and maintain performance test scripts, test suites, and test artefacts, ensuring accurate analysis and reporting of performance test outcomes. Manage and maintain performance test environments, test data, and load generation infrastructure to support effective and repeatable testing activities. Identify opportunities to improve framework efficiency, scalability, reliability, and usability across the Department. Act as the subject matter expert for performance testing-related enquiries, providing guidance and support to project teams, testers, developers, architects, and other stakeholders. Build and maintain effective working relationships with delivery teams and business stakeholders to ensure performance testing requirements are understood and successfully delivered. Engage with internal Communities of Practice and cross-functional teams to promote consistent performance engineering and testing practices across the Department. Maintain and enhance performance testing documentation, standards, procedures, knowledge articles, and user guidance materials, including tool installation, configuration, and operational support documentation. Contribute to the development and continuous improvement of performance testing governance, frameworks, best practices, standards, and guardrails. Deliver demonstrations, mentoring, coaching, and knowledge transfer activities to members of the Testing and Quality Assurance (TQA) team and broader stakeholder groups as required. Criteria The buyer has specified that each candidate must provide a response to each criterion. Each response is limited to 3000 characters. Essential criteria Weighting 1. 1. Demonstrated experience in performance engineering and contributing to performance test strategy within complex enterprise environments, including a minimum of six years' experience in a Performance Test Lead or Senior Performance testing role. Weighting: 25% 2. 2. Technical expertise in performance testing tools and frameworks, including LoadRunner, JMeter, Azure Load Testing and related technologies, with experience designing, developing, executing and maintaining performance testing solutions. Weighting: 25% 3. 3. Experience managing and enhancing performance testing frameworks, governance, standards, best practices and continuous improvement initiatives, including tool maintenance, upgrades, and capability uplift activities. Weighting: 20% 4. 4. Strong analytical, troubleshooting and problem-solving skills, with demonstrated ability to identify, investigate and resolve complex performance-related issues (i.e performance bottlenecks, non-functional risks or quality issues) and provide expert technical advice. Weighting: 20% 5. 5. Demonstrated stakeholder engagement, communication and collaboration skills, including the ability to influence, mentor, build capability, and communicate effectively with technical and non-technical audiences. Weighting: 10% Opportunity summary Sellers can submit Up to 2 candidates Number of sellers invited Between 5 and 10 Number of candidates submitted Fewer than 10 RFQ closing time 01 Weeks 00 Days 12 Hours Send us feedback About Accessibility Privacy Terms of use Disclaimer and copyright An initiative of the Digital Transformation Agency The Australian Government acknowledges the Traditional Owners of Country throughout Australia and acknowledges their continuing connection to land, waters and community. We pay our respects to the people, the cultures and the Elders past and present. © Commonwealth of Australia