# Senior Test Engineer – Automation and Non-Functional Testing (AWS / Performance)

**Company**: Leidos
**Location**: Bristol, Gloucestershire
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: £44,700.00-£57,300.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

We are looking for a Senior Test Engineer with approximately 10 years of overall software testing experience, including 2–4 years of hands-on experience in non-functional testing and test automation. You will design automated test suites, execute performance and load tests, and build synthetic monitoring solutions within an AWS environment.

Key Responsibilities:

- Manage the Non-Functional Test Phase, including planning, coordinating test execution, monitoring progress, managing risks and defects, and reporting outcomes and test closure.

- Lead Performance & Non-Functional Testing, designing, scripting, and executing load, stress, endurance, and spike tests using Apache JMeter.

- Drive Test Automation, building, maintaining, and enhancing automated functional and API test frameworks.

- Own Synthetic Monitoring, designing, deploying, and managing automated synthetic checks using Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics.

- Observability & Metrics, building and maintaining clear, real-time dashboards in Grafana and AWS CloudWatch.

- Technical Leadership & Collaboration, acting as the quality champion within Agile ceremonies and mentoring junior testers.

Required Skills & Experience:

- Proven hands-on experience in software testing, non-functional/performance testing, and test automation.

- Demonstrated experience leading testing efforts, defining test plans, and communicating risks.

- Strong practical skills in Apache JMeter, AWS Cloud Ecosystem, and monitoring tools.

- Proficiency in writing maintainable automated UI or API tests using modern frameworks.

- Experience embedding automated and performance test suites into CI/CD workflows.

Desirable Skills:

- Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform or AWS CloudFormation.

- Familiarity with containerisation and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).

- Exposure to other performance or APM tools.

- Experience testing microservices and event-driven architectures.

What we do for you:

- Contributory Pension Scheme

- Private Medical Insurance

- 33 days Annual Leave

- Access to Flexible benefits

- Flexi-Time Working

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## Skills

### Required
- Apache JMeter
- AWS Cloud Ecosystem
- Grafana
- CloudWatch
- Python
- Java
- TypeScript/JavaScript
- Playwright
- Cypress
- Selenium
- RestAssured
- PyTest

### Nice to have
- Terraform
- AWS CloudFormation
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- k6
- Gatling
- Datadog
- New Relic
- Dynatrace

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