Performance Test Engineer 18 month maximum contract role

If you also believe that everyone should be able to achieve their financial potential then youll love contributing to CMC Markets company vision of providing the ultimate trading experience. Seize the opportunity to progress your career in the fintech industry by joining a global leader in CFD trading and share investing. Grow yourself personally and professionally with a company thats growing with you by global expansion and product offering.

If you care deeply about system performance and want your work to protect millions of real trades this role offers meaningful impact from day one. At CMC Markets performance is not an afterthought its essential to trust reliability and market access.

Why Youll like working here

Just some of the reasons youll love working here include:

• Leave benefits: Enjoy your birthday off to spend time with family and friends on us! Utilise a free annual charity day to give back to your community.

• $0 Trades: Staff & family trading accounts with CMC Markets Invest have access to the best brokerage rates in the market - $0 trades for all domestic and international equity orders!

• Continuous learning: Our L&D offering covers both technical and performance training ensuring youre always learning new skills.

• Unlimited access to a dedicated benefits & wellbeing hub where you can save money through various retailer discounts and make use of a variety of resources that will enhance your physical and mental wellbeing.

• Collaboration: We believe that great things happen when smart people work together thats why weve made the decision to work five days in the office.

• Office perks: Help yourself to free breakfast cereals condiments and coffee to fuel your workday. Our culture club provides opportunities for everyone whether youre into fitness pizza making classes socialising or bringing out your competitive side in trivia or lawn bowls!

What youll be working on

Youll lead performance and non-functional testing across critical trading platforms ensuring they remain scalable resilient and responsive.

Your work will include:

• Designing and executing performance load stress and scalability tests using k6

• Building and maintaining reusable performance testing frameworks and scripts

• Analysing results to identify bottlenecks across application database and infrastructure layers

• Partnering with developers to diagnose issues and validate performance improvements

• Testing cloud-native systems deployed in AWS

• Integrating performance testing into CI/CD pipelines

• Defining and monitoring performance KPIs and non-functional requirements

• Producing clear actionable performance reports to support decision-making

• Supporting capacity planning and continuous performance improvement

What will help you be successful

You enjoy digging into complex systems and translating metrics into clear insights. Youre confident challenging assumptions comfortable collaborating across teams and motivated by improving outcomes.

Youll bring:

• Strong experience in performance and non-functional testing

• Hands-on experience using k6 and JavaScript-based test scripting

• Experience testing C#/.NET applications and APIs

• Solid understanding of AWS and distributed system architectures

• Confidence analysing performance metrics such as latency throughput and error rates

• Experience working in Agile environments with CI/CD pipelines

• Experience with containerised environments monitoring tools or high-throughput systems will be highly regarded.

• Applicants must have Australian Citizenship or Permanent Residency to be considered for this role.

The things we live by

CMC Markets is powered by our people. We are an equal opportunities employer and are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace where our people feel confident to be themselves feel valued and are able to do their best work. We dont just value differences and unique perspectives we seek them out and we invite them in because we know it will lead to better outcomes for everyone

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Were always on the lookout for great people so even if you dont feel you are a 100% fit apply with your up-to-date CV and well consider you for this role and any other suitable opportunities across the business.

We look forward to hearing from you!

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