Principal Consultant Performance Testing & Test Automation

Datacom
NZ - Auckland - Auckland
March 6, 2025

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Our Why
Datacom works with organisations and communities across Australia and New Zealand to make a difference in people's lives and help organisations use the power of tech to innovate and grow.
The Nuts and Bolts
We have over 6,500 people across our offices and generate an annual revenue of over $1.49 billion, making us one of Australasia's largest professional IT services companies.
We have extensive expertise in operating data centres, providing IT services, software engineering, and application management, as well as payroll and customer service design and operations.
We are committed to hiring, developing, and promoting the best talent from a diverse range of backgrounds.
The Opportunity
As a Principal Consultant within the Professional Services team, your skills will be used across a wide breadth of challenging projects.
About The Role
This is an excellent opportunity to join a diverse and dynamic solution provider with a huge range of clients and high-level in-house expertise.
We adhere to agile principles and deliver using modern technologies, the latest development tools, and practices, always putting customer value first.
Your talent is critical to help us with our performance testing engagements and to drive modern performance engineering thinking and practice in our clients.
You may be a member of a performance engineering team or leading the team depending on the engagement.
To create performance test scripts, you will bring a history of great testing practices and truly understand how performance fits into the wider QA strategy.
What skills do we need?
To earn a place on our team, you must be creative in your approaches and implement solutions that require the use of multiple tools and technologies.
Implement, improve, and augment performance test scripts using JMeter, NeoLoad, Load Runner, GraphQL, and similar tools.
Create and implement a test automation framework using Selenium, Rest Assured, Rest Sharp, Playwright, and similar tools.
Programming languages:
Java, C#, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript.
Agile mindset and experience of working on projects following SCRUM.
You must demonstrate strong experience, having been successful in a similar role before, to lead the project teams through the web & API test automation, performance testing, and optimization journey.
You must have strong performance test experience spanning several years across a variety of tools and platforms.
We will ask you to show us your:

Proven knowledge of the proper performance requirements analysis and test script development across a variety of tools and environments.
Proven knowledge of test automation across a variety of tools and environments.
Ability to analyze a project, determine the optimal tool set, implement a benchmark test, and present the results.
Proven ability to deliver quality results in a busy and dynamic business-focused environment.
Knowledge of good software development practices and current methodologies and tools.
Ability to contribute to developing performance testing skills and knowledge within the wider team.
Dedication to improvement via training, certifications, or self-study.
Why Datacom?
Datacom is one of Australia and New Zealand's largest suppliers of Information Technology professional services.
We maintain a dynamic, agile, small business feel that is often diluted in larger organisations.
It's our people that give Datacom its unique culture and energy that you can feel from the moment you meet us.
We care about our people and provide a range of perks such as social events, chill-out spaces, remote working, flexi-hours, and professional development courses.
You'll have the opportunity to learn, develop your career, connect, and bring your true self to work.
You will be recognised and valued for your contributions and be able to do your work in a collegial, flat-structured environment.
We operate at the forefront of technology to help Australia and New Zealand's largest enterprise organisations explore possibilities and solve their greatest challenges.
If you would like to know more and this sounds like you, please apply online today!
Seniority level Mid-Senior level
Employment type Full-time
Job function Information Technology
Industries Non-profit Organizations and Primary and Secondary Education
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