Automation QA Engineer - UI/API & CI/CD Expert

IBM; Manchester; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday

Private medical

Dental cover

Pension plan

Flexible working

Job summary

IBM Consulting UK FutureNow is seeking a Quality Engineer with automation experience to design, develop and maintain automated test suites for UI, API and integration testing. You will support CI/CD integration and work with developers, DevOps and cross-functional teams to raise quality and speed of delivery.

The role requires hands-on test automation with Selenium, Playwright, Cypress and RestAssured, plus programming in Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python or C#.

Qualifications

• Experience in building automated test suites for UI, API and integration testing.
• Proficiency with popular test automation tools and programming languages.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
• Knowledge of test design, debugging and root cause analysis.

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.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve product quality, identify risks, and advocate for automated testing best practices.
• Mentor junior engineers in automation techniques and quality engineering practices.

Skills

Problem-solving

Collaboration

Strong communication

Agile mindset

Quality engineering

Tools

Selenium

Playwright

Cypress

Appium

RestAssured

Postman

Git

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Azure DevOps

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

IBM Consulting UK FutureNow is seeking a Quality Engineer with automation experience to design, develop and maintain automated test suites for UI, API and integration testing. You will support CI/CD integration and work with developers, DevOps and cross-functional teams to raise quality and speed of delivery.

The role requires hands-on test automation with Selenium, Playwright, Cypress and RestAssured, plus programming in Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python or C#.