Automation QA Engineer - CI/CD & API Testing

IBM; Hursley; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday

Private medical

Dental cover

Optical cover

Online shopping discounts

Employee Assistance Program

Life assurance

Group pension

Job summary

IBM UK FutureNow is seeking a Quality Engineer with automation experience to build reliable automated tests for applications and support CI/CD integration. You’ll design, develop, and maintain test suites using industry-standard tools, and collaborate with DevOps to improve delivery speed and quality.

You will work across UI, API, and integration testing with modern languages like Java, TypeScript, Python, or C#, while aligning with Agile and containerized delivery.

Qualifications

• Experience with test automation tools (e.g., Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, Appium, RestAssured, Postman).
• Programming skills in Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, or C#.
• Experience building automation frameworks for UI, API, and integration testing.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain automated test suites for functional, regression, integration, performance, and API testing.
• Build automation frameworks using industry-standard tools and modern programming languages.
• Develop optimized test scenarios and ensure comprehensive test coverage aligned to acceptance criteria.
• Create automation for test environment setup, test execution, test data management, and environment validation.
• Integrate test automation into CI/CD pipelines, working closely with DevOps to enable continuous testing.
• Contribute to quality engineering practices aligned with Agile, DevOps, and containerized delivery models.
• Monitor test execution results, troubleshoot failures, and provide actionable insights to development teams.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve product quality, identify risks, and advocate for automated testing best practices.
• Participate in requirement analysis, sprint planning, and backlog grooming to ensure quality is built in from the start.
• Drive adoption of automation tools, frameworks, and best practices across teams.
• Ensuring that Best Practices are being followed as part of the Test Delivery in the SCRUM Teams.

Skills

Automation experience

Java

JavaScript/TypeScript

Python

C#

Selenium

Playwright

Cypress

Appium

RestAssured

Postman

CI/CD understanding

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Jenkins

Azure DevOps

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Git

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

IBM UK FutureNow is seeking a Quality Engineer with automation experience to build reliable automated tests for applications and support CI/CD integration. You’ll design, develop, and maintain test suites using industry-standard tools, and collaborate with DevOps to improve delivery speed and quality.

You will work across UI, API, and integration testing with modern languages like Java, TypeScript, Python, or C#, while aligning with Agile and containerized delivery.