Functional Tester - Restart your Technical Career

IBM; Bristol; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative consulting firm is seeking talented individuals to join their tech re-entry programme, designed for those looking to restart their careers after a break. This role involves collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams to deliver impactful client solutions, focusing on test automation and performance testing. You'll have the chance to update your skills with the latest tools and technologies while working on real projects. With a culture that fosters curiosity and long-term growth, this opportunity is perfect for those eager to make a meaningful impact in the tech industry.

Qualifications

• Experience in automation and scripting is essential.
• Familiarity with test technologies and web services.

Responsibilities

• Create and execute test automation for biometric workflows.
• Test back-end web-services without a UI.

Skills

Automation and scripting

Test technologies

Knowledge of XML

Knowledge of SOAP Web Services

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

SOAP-UI

JMeter

Jira

Zephyr

Job description

Introduction

In this role, you’ll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centres (Delivery Centres), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

A career in IBM CIC is rooted by long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe.

You’ll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio; including Software and Red Hat.

Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success in IBM Consulting. In your role, you’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm, investigate ideas outside of your role, and come up with creative solutions resulting in ground-breaking impact for a wide network of clients. Our culture of evolution and empathy centers on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.

Your role and responsibilities

Are you ready to work in this new era of technology and solve some of the world’s most challenging problems? We understand that re-joining employment after a career break can be nerve-racking and difficult. That is why we have introduced the tech re-entry programme to enable talented individuals like you the opportunity to re-start your career. In your first six months with the CIC, the tech re-entry programme will provide opportunities to update your skills, access the latest tools and technologies, and work alongside multi-disciplinary teams to hone expertise and deliver on client-critical solutions. Over the six-month programme, your expertise will be updated, skills developed, and new relationships forged. So why join the programme?

• The program offers flexibility and ease of transition from your career break to getting back to the workforce
• A community of like-minded re-joiners will support you as you restart your journey together
• You will have the opportunity to update your skills and expertise as you work on real projects with real impact
• A dedicated mentor will help you get up to speed with the environment and new technology.

Your Role And Responsibilities

Working with multi-disciplinary teams will enable you to deliver client-critical solutions.

• Work will include creating and executing test automation to execute biometric workflows and matching.
• Tests will execute back-end web-services as the system does not have a UI.
• Constructing appropriate input test messages and expected outputs for a wide range of scenarios and automating the creation of these inputs to accelerate delivery.
• Testing will cover functional and non-functional (performance/operability aspects).

Preferred Education

Bachelor's Degree

Required Technical And Professional Expertise

Key skills

• Automation and scripting
• Test technologies including SOAP-UI, JMeter, Jira, Zephyr
• Knowledge of XML and SOAP Web Services