Performance Test Consultant

We are looking for experienced Performance test expert to join our growing QA community in Gofore

At Gofore, our community of over 150 digital quality assurance experts thrives on collaboration and knowledge sharing, working on interesting customer projects. Support and professional sparring are readily available with us, and activities like our monthly Test Automation and Agile test management Guild learning sessions keep you updated on the most interesting developments in the field of Testing.

As a consultancy company, our bread and butter is in customer project work. We want to find you a project and a role that plays to your strengths but also levels you up as a professional. Our clients can be divided into the two following sectors:

·      Digital Society - Our diverse client base consisting of both private and public sector organisations (e.g. Elisa, Kone, Finnish Tax Administration, LähiTapiola) provide meaningful development projects carried out with modern technologies and affect the lives of hundreds of thousands of Finns.

·      Intelligent Industry - If you have experience or interests to work closely with physical devices and industrial digital solutions, this is for you We work on projects for moving machines, the energy sector, the manufacturing industry, telecommunications or wellness and health technology. Our customers include Valtra, AGCO, Aidon and Bosch, for example.

Read more about our test automation projects from our project radar.

Well-being employees and successful customers are the core of our company. We want to offer our employees the best opportunities to develop and flourish – both at work and outside of it. Our reputation for providing quality services to our customers is solely due to our experts. Gofore's growth is profitable and together with our customers, we want to achieve positive impact and sustainable digital solutions.

As a community of quality professionals, we take pride in the impact we make across customer projects. Our performance testing specialists often work closely with our test automation experts, ensuring that quality is ensured on every layer of the system; from functionality to scalability and reliability. We share a mindset of continuous learning and professional growth. Whether your passion lies in performance engineering, test strategies, or tooling, you'll find opportunities to deepen your expertise through community activities, trainings, certifications, and industry events like meetups and conferences. We support you in shaping your own career path – whether it leads toward deepening your performance engineering expertise, specializing in cloud-based testing, expanding into test automation, or exploring areas like DevOps, AI & data, or cybersecurity.

·      You are already an experienced expert with performance testing in cloud environments.

·      You combine a solution-driven mindset with consultative skills to help customers in optimizing their performance testing approach

·      Professional proficiency in Finnish, which is essential for customer collaboration.

·      Skilled in performance testing using tools like JMeter or Locust.

·      Able to design performance tests aligned with business goals and translate results into actionable insights.

·      Understanding of authentication mechanisms (e.g., OAuth, API keys) and handling of access tokens in performance testing scenarios

·      Strong communication skills, with the ability to collaborate across teams

·      Familiar with DevOps practices and CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or Azure DevOps.

·      Experience in test automation using Robot Framework or Playwright is a plus.

·      Cloud experience (e.g., AWS, Azure, or GCP) is a nice to have.

Customer-oriented mindset and readiness to adapt to the needs of customer projects, including where and how you work.

A security clearance check by the Finnish Security Intelligence Service is required in some of our projects. In case you will work in such a project, this check is required. It is always done with the applicant's consent.

For us it is important that Goforeans receive reasonable total compensation for their work. The compensation is the outcome of, not only experience and skills, but also active work for our two values: being a good workplace for everyone and considering customer perspective in everything we do. The feedback that you receive, your utilisation rate (we are consultants, after all) and your own professional development are central in the salary discussions with your People Leader (i.e. supervisor).

In addition to the monthly salary, we have separate bonuses linked with the company's success. Bonuses can be related to, for example, recruitment, sales or actions advancing Gofore's employer brand.

Read here what happens when you send your application and how recruitment progresses here at Gofore. 

We recognize and understand neurodiversity, and are willing to adapt our recruitment process based on your needs.

Thank you - your recommendation has been sent to the recruitment team We will take the recommendation into our process usually within 1 week. However, please note that finding the right people from the right BUs to review the candidate may take several days. After that we'll contact the candidate for next possible steps. Please note that recommended candidates are handled the same way as other candidates, and the next steps are taken based on our long and short term recruitment needs. Due to GDPR, we, unfortunately, cannot give you updates on how the candidate proceeds in our process but we will contact all recommended candidates, whether they proceed or not. For more information, please go to confluence: To learn about our priority roles, pls visit #recruiting channel on Slack or contact your BUs recruiter.