QA & Performance Tester – Cloud Native Platforms

About the role

Zinkworks is looking for a QA & Performance Test Lead to own quality assurance for complex cloud‑native telecom platforms. You will shape the testing strategy, drive performance and security validation, and ensure that large‑scale applications meet reliability and scalability targets.

Key responsibilities

• Define and lead the QA strategy across multi‑disciplinary engineering programmes.
• Design, implement and execute performance and stress testing for cloud‑native applications.
• Conduct security testing and validation activities to protect critical telecom services.
• Build, maintain and extend automated testing frameworks.
• Collaborate with development, DevOps and product teams to embed quality throughout the lifecycle.
• Guarantee scalability, reliability and performance of large‑scale telecom systems.

Required profile

• Strong background in performance testing and performance engineering.
• Proven experience designing test strategies for stress and load testing.
• Hands‑on expertise in test automation and guiding teams to automate end‑to‑end scenarios.
• Experience performing security testing and validation.
• Familiarity with testing cloud‑native, distributed and large‑scale telecom or enterprise platforms.

Required skills

• Performance testing
• Stress testing
• Test automation frameworks
• Security testing
• Cloud‑native architectures
• Distributed systems testing
• Kubernetes
• CI/CD pipelines
• DevOps practices