Quality Assurance Analyst

IBM; Leicester; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading IT firm in Leicester is looking for a motivated Performance & Resilience Management Quality Engineer to join its quality assurance team. In this role, you will conduct performance testing to ensure reliability and scalability. Responsibilities include executing performance and load tests, supporting regression testing, and contributing to test strategy development. The position offers numerous training opportunities, promotion prospects, and a supportive work culture focused on diversity and inclusion, making it an ideal environment for career growth.

Benefits

Training opportunities

Regular promotion opportunities

Diversity & Inclusion initiatives

Flexible working approaches

Employee Assistance Program

25 days holiday plus public holidays

Qualifications

• Must have valid right to work in the UK.
• Exposure to automation frameworks preferred.
• Must have lived in the UK continuously for the last 5 years.

Responsibilities

• Execute performance and load tests across systems.
• Support regression testing activities.
• Contribute to analysis of performance test results.
• Create, update and maintain test strategy procedures.
• Participate in creating automation scripts.

Skills

Attention to detail

Basic automation scripting

Performance analysis

Network performance testing

Willingness to learn

Tools

Performance analysis tools

Job description

We are seeking a motivated Performance & Resilience Management Quality Engineer to join our quality assurance team. In this role, you will assist in performance testing across systems, networks, and infrastructure to ensure reliability, scalability, and resilience. You will learn to execute performance test scripts both manually and automatically within a QA environment to support release cycles. Guided by experienced engineers, you will help analyse test results using performance tools and contribute to resolving performance-related issues. You will also support the creation and maintenance of standard operating procedures, processes, and policies related to performance testing. This is a fantastic opportunity to build foundational skills in performance and resilience management while working on real-world projects. Responsibilities

Responsibilities

• Assist in executing performance and load tests across systems and infrastructure.
• Support regression testing activities within QA environments.
• Help maintain test strategy documents, processes, and policies.
• Contribute to analysis of performance test results and issue resolution.
• Participate in creating basic automation scripts for testing purposes.
• Execute regression test scripts within a Quality Assurance (QA) environment in a manual and automatic fashion to support scheduled and unscheduled releases.
• Provide testing metrics to show progress of each regression test event.
• Ability to create, update, and maintain test strategy standard operating procedures processes policies etc. surrounding regression test.
  Strong attention to detail and willingness to learn new tools.

Eligibility & EEO

As an equal opportunities' employer, we welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds. However, for you to be eligible for this role, you must have the valid right to work in the UK. Unfortunately, we do not offer visa sponsorship and have no future plans to do so. You must be a resident in the UK and have been living continuously in the UK for the last 5 years. You must be able to hold or gain a UK government security clearance.

Preferred Technical and Professional Experience

• Exposure to automation frameworks.
• Familiarity with network performance testing concepts.
• Experience with basic performance analysis tools.
• Understanding of infrastructure components in application delivery.

Company Overview

A career in IBM CIC means you'll have the opportunity to 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. Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success here. You'll be encouraged to challenge the norm, investigate ideas outside of your role, and come up with creative solutions which impact a wide network of clients, whom may be at their site or one of our CIC or IBM locations. Our culture of evolution centres on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.

At IBM CIC, we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients in the UK.

Benefits

• Many training opportunities from classroom to e-learning, mentoring and coaching programs and the chance to gain industry recognized certifications.
• Regular and frequent promotion opportunities to ensure you can drive and develop your career with us.
• Feedback and checkpoints throughout the year.
• Diversity & Inclusion as an essential and authentic component of our culture through our policies and process as well as our Employee Champion teams and support networks.
• A culture where your ideas for growth and innovation are always welcome.
• Internal recognition programs for peer-to-peer appreciation as well as from manager to employees.
• Tools and policies to support your work-life balance from flexible working approaches, sabbatical programs, paid paternity leave, maternity leave and an innovative maternity returners scheme.
• More traditional benefits, such as 25 days holiday (in addition to public holidays), online shopping discounts, an Employee Assistance Program, a group personal pension plan of an additional 5% of your base salary paid by us monthly to save for your future.