automation qa

Chip is a financial technology company building a digital wealth management platform designed to help users grow, manage, and protect their long-term wealth across savings, investments, and pensions.

• Own performance from day one by embedding performance thinking into delivery plans before code is written;
• Define thresholds, metrics, and SLOs that govern pass or fail, including budgets for latency, error rate, and throughput;
• Design and build performance tests for individual services, stubbing downstream and third-party dependencies;
• Map load to real production traffic to identify performance bottlenecks;
• Integrate performance testing into CI/CD pipelines to catch regressions automatically;
• Build reusable and scalable performance tests as code, components, templates, and utilities;
• Root-cause regressions across the stack by reading logs and tracing requests through distributed systems;
• Engage stakeholders across engineering, platform, and product to turn findings into fixes;
• Raise performance and scalability risks early and challenge assumptions constructively.

• 5+ Years of experience in performance engineering with a track record of owning performance across complex, modern systems;
• Deep performance testing expertise including designing realistic load models and running load, stress, soak, and spike tests;
• Hands-on depth with k6 for building and running performance tests;
• Monitoring and observability know-how using tools like Datadog, Grafana, or CloudWatch;
• Strong programming ability in at least one language, with TypeScript used across the stack;
• Understanding of microservices, distributed systems, and testing services in isolation;
• Fluency with CI/CD pipelines;
• Nice to have: Experience in fintech, wealth management, or regulated financial services, Experience using AI-assisted tooling to accelerate performance work, Contributions to internal quality guilds, communities of practice, or engineering culture initiatives, Experience mentoring engineers on performance and testing best practices.

• Monday to Thursday: 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM, Friday: 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM;
• Discretionary Performance-Related Annual Bonus;
• Workplace pension scheme with a 5% employer contribution on earnings up to £50,000;
• Private medical insurance with medical history disregarded;
• Employee Assistance Programme;
• Cycle to work scheme;
• Season ticket loan;
• Free ChipX subscription for UK-based employees;
• 28 Days holiday plus bank holidays and the days between Christmas and New Year;
• Annual training budget for courses, workshops, or conferences;
• £30 Per month Chip Fitness Benefit;
• Company laptop;
• Relocation support is available.