Performance Test Lead - Policing - NPPV
Posted 9 days 16 hours ago by SR2 | Socially Responsible Recruitment | Certified B Corporation
Location London, England Sector Consultancy Salary £450.00 to £550.00 per day
Performance Test Lead - Policing - NPPV
We're supporting a major policing organisation on a high-profile technology transformation programme. We are looking for a Performance Test Lead to take ownership of planning, coordinating and delivering robust Non-Functional Requirements (NFR) testing across critical systems.
You'll play a key role in safeguarding performance, scalability, and reliability standards across a complex digital estate, ensuring services meet the demands of frontline operations and public service expectations.
Due to the nature of the role, candidates will require active NPPV clearance.
Key Responsibilities:
- Define and lead the end-to-end NFR testing strategy for multiple workstreams
- Oversee execution of tests across performance, load, scalability, resilience, and reliability
- Collaborate closely with engineering, product, infrastructure, and DevOps teams
- Identify key metrics and performance thresholds, ensuring alignment with SLAs and service expectations
- Manage defect reporting, triage, and risk mitigation related to NFR issues
- Provide expert insight into tools, frameworks, and continuous improvement of testing processes
- Active NPPV clearance
- Proven experience leading performance and non-functional testing in large, enterprise-scale programmes
- Strong knowledge of testing tools such as JMeter, LoadRunner, Gatling, or similar
- Experience with cloud-native architectures and modern delivery pipelines (e.g. CI/CD, containerisation, microservices)
- Ability to analyse complex systems and recommend performance improvements
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences