About us:
Amach is an industry-leading technology driven company with headquarters located in Dublin and remote teams in UK and Europe.
Our blended teams of local and nearshore talent are optimised to deliver high quality and collaborative solutions.
Established in 2013, we specialise in cloud migration and development, digital transformation including agile software development, DevOps, automation, data and machine learning…
We are seeking a proficient Senior Performance Test Lead to take ownership of performance, scalability and reliability testing across critical enterprise systems. This role will lead performance engineering efforts, define test strategies and drive continuous improvement of non-functional testing practices across multiple agile delivery teams.
As a Senior Performance Test Lead, you’ll design and execute complex load, stress, endurance and scalability tests, ensuring our customer's platforms perform optimally under real-world conditions. Your role involves working alongside architects, developers, and DevOps teams. You will identify and solve performance problems, boost system efficiency, and establish performance benchmarks for big applications.
This role will operate on a hybrid model, with candidates expected to be able and willing to work from our customer's Dublin office at least once a week.
Required Experience:
- 8+ years of experience in performance testing or performance engineering, including at least 2 years in a lead capacity
- Robust hands-on experience with one or more performance testing tools: JMeter, LoadRunner, Gatling, BlazeMeter, or Neoload
- Solid awareness of Java- or .NET-based architectures, microservices, REST APIs, and database performance (Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL)
- Experience in cloud-based performance testing (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Proficiency with monitoring and profiling tools such as Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Grafana, ELK Stack, or Prometheus
- Solid analytical skills to diagnose bottlenecks at network, application, and database levels
- Experience integrating tests into CI/CD pipelines and working in Agile/Scrum environments
- Impressive communication and management skills, with a focus on mentoring and influencing technical teams
Key responsibilities & duties include:
Performance Test Strategy & Leadership
- Define and implement the overall performance testing strategy, standards, and frameworks for enterprise systems
- Lead the design and execution of load, stress, endurance, and scalability tests across multiple applications and environments
- Collaborate with development and architecture teams to ensure performance requirements are captured early in the lifecycle
- Translate complex business and technical requirements into performance test plans and scenarios
- Provide technical management to performance test engineers and guide the adoption of best practices in performance engineering.
Test Design, Execution & Analysis
- Develop and maintain performance test scripts using industry-standard tools (e.g., JMeter, LoadRunner, Gatling, BlazeMeter)
- Conduct end-to-end performance testing of APIs, microservices, web, and database layers
- Monitor system behaviour under load, identify bottlenecks, and provide actionable recommendations
- Analyze and interpret results using APM tools (e.g., Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Grafana, Prometheus) and present findings to stakeholders
- Work with developers and database administrators to fine-tune applications, APIs, and queries for optimal performance
DevOps, Automation & Continuous Improvement
- Integrate performance testing into CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI, AWS CodePipeline)
- Automate performance regression suites and establish continuous performance monitoring
- Collaborate with DevOps to ensure test environments mirror production scale and configuration
- Promote a performance-first mindset across engineering and product teams
Reporting & Stakeholder Management
- Produce detailed performance reports and dashboards, highlighting system KPIs, SLA compliance and improvement areas
- Communicate complex performance results in clear, actionable terms for technical and business stakeholders
- Provide insights to support capacity planning and scalability roadmaps.
Desirable Experience:
- Knowledge of scripting/programming languages such as Python, Java, or Groovy
- Experience with APM tools and capacity planning
- Exposure to performance engineering in financial services, telecoms, or large-scale digital platforms
- Knows how to handle non-functional needs like reliability, scalability, and fortitude
What’s in it for you:
- An opportunity to join a fast-growing company
- Options for career advancement
- Learning and development opportunities
- Flexible working environment
- Competitive salaries based on experience
Equal Opportunity Employer:
Amach is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. This job description is intended to convey essential responsibilities and qualifications for this role, but it is not an exhaustive list of tasks that an employee may be required to perform.
If you are passionate about driving customer success, advising on strategic solutions, and contributing to product innovation, we would love to hear from you!
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At Amach, we strive to be an inclusive community of open-minded individuals with different backgrounds and we are committed to fostering, cultivating and preserving a culture of diversity, equity and inclusion. We strongly believe that a diversity of experience and background is essential to create a fulfilling environment and better solutions for our people and our customers. All Amach employees and contractors are expected to honour this policy and act to ensure that every individual is respected in the workplace.
Your personal data
Amach will process your personal information in accordance with the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). We will comply with data protection law and principles, which means that your data will be:
- Used lawfully, fairly and in a transparent way
- Collected only for valid purposes and not used in any way that is incompatible with those purposes
- Relevant to the purposes we have told you about and limited only to those purposes
- Accurate and kept up to date
- Kept only as long as necessary for the purposes we have told you about
- Kept securely
If you would like to contact us about your data, please use the following address: [email protected]
Top Skills
What We Do
We help mature organisations evolve into modern digital businesses with faster time to market, increased operational stability and security.
We offer a suite of technical services delivered by an experienced team of subject matter experts. Our services can be provided as a fully managed service or as an embedded part of your team. We focus on both short-term and long-term goals that emphasise business outcomes for our customers.
Why choose Amach:
1. Business Agility - We focus on removing your IT debt, so that your company can focus on delivering business value to your customers at pace in a secure and reliable manner.
2. Cost Reduction - We help reduce your IT costs across all domains. This includes operational costs in both cloud and your data centres, licencing, evergreening, and reducing project delivery timelines.
3. Operational Stability - We will modernise your IT systems ensuring operational stability and resilience, to ensure the end user experience for both customers and staff are enhanced.
4. Enable Innovation - By removing IT debt, we create space for your team to focus on innovation, ensuring business longevity and futureproofing. We bring both sector experience and lessons learned.
5. Security - We address the overall architecture to ensure security by convention vs configuration. We promote DevSecOps practices, so security isn’t seen to prevent teams from delivery in an efficient manner.
6. Improve Employee Experience - We create and implement your EUX strategy that adapts to a changing world, while improving security and user efficiency - resulting in improved colleague satisfaction and retention.
7. Sustainability - Achieve your sustainability goals through optimising your overall IT footprint and reducing costs.
We thrive on delivering customer value in every interaction.
If you are interested in hearing more or to see how we could help you, please get in touch [email protected]
