Senior Full-Stack QA Engineer - Automation & CI/CD

IBM; Leicester; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Private medical & dental

Maternity returners scheme

Job summary

IBM Consulting UK FutureNow seeks a Senior Full Stack Quality Engineer to lead automated testing across UI, API, and integration layers during major migration projects. You will design scalable automation, build end-to-end frameworks, and drive quality across complex environments.

You will collaborate with architects, developers and DevOps teams, delivering reusable assets and guidance while ensuring high standards in a multi‑supplier Programme.£

Qualifications

• Experience designing and implementing automation across UI, API, services, and integration layers.
• Hands-on automation using Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, or C#.
• Strong CI/CD pipeline experience (GitHub/GitLab/Jenkins/Azure DevOps).
• Understanding of microservices, containers, and distributed architectures.

Responsibilities

• Define test approaches and quality strategies for large application refactoring and migration initiatives.
• Build and maintain full-stack automation frameworks covering UI, API, services, microservices, containers, and integrations.
• Create test artefacts including test plans, test scenarios, test scripts, and test data models.
• Automate end-to-end test execution and integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines for continuous quality checks.
• Develop reusable automation assets to support functional and regression testing.
• Execute manual and automated tests to validate application behaviour during migration.
• Collaborate with developers, architects, and DevOps teams to troubleshoot issues and ensure product readiness.
• Analyse defects, perform root cause analysis, and drive continuous quality improvement.
• Work effectively within a multi‑supplier environment, managing dependencies across teams.
• Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and quality guidance within the programme.

Skills

Automation testing

Java

JavaScript/TypeScript

Python

C#

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Selenium

Playwright

Cypress

RestAssured

Appium

Job description

IBM Consulting UK FutureNow seeks a Senior Full Stack Quality Engineer to lead automated testing across UI, API, and integration layers during major migration projects. You will design scalable automation, build end-to-end frameworks, and drive quality across complex environments.

You will collaborate with architects, developers and DevOps teams, delivering reusable assets and guidance while ensuring high standards in a multi‑supplier Programme.£