Functional Tester - Restart your Technical Career

Avature; Hursley; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job description

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 to 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.
• 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).

Required Education

None

Preferred Education

Bachelor's Degree

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

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

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Consulting is IBM’s consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients’ businesses through the power of collaboration.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment every day, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

IBM wants you to bring your whole self to work and for you this might mean the ability to work flexibly. If you are interested in a flexible working pattern, please talk to our recruitment team to find out if this is possible in the current working environment.

Job Title: Functional Tester - Restart your Technical Career

Job ID: 11181

City / Township / Village: United Kingdom

Work arrangement: Hybrid

Area of work: Software Engineering

Employment type: Regular

Position type: Professional

Some travel may be required based on business demand.