Senior Full-Stack Quality Engineer: Automation & Migration

IBM; Leicester Forest East; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday

Private medical

Dental & optical cover

Group pension plan

Sabbatical programs

Maternity/Paternity leave

Flexible working

Career progression

Job summary

IBM Consulting UK FutureNow is seeking a Senior Full Stack Quality Engineer to lead end-to-end quality assurance for major migration initiatives. You will define test approaches, build full-stack automation, and integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines across UI, API, services, and data layers.

In this senior role you will mentor engineers, collaborate with architects and DevOps, and drive reusable automation assets to accelerate testing in a large multi-supplier environment.

Qualifications

• Strong experience designing and implementing automation across UI, API, services, and integration layers.
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, or C#.
• Hands-on experience with automation tools (Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, RestAssured, Appium, etc.).
• Strong understanding of microservices, containers, and distributed architectures.
• CI/CD pipeline expertise (GitHub, GitLab, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, etc.).
• Knowledge of test modelling, scenario design, and scalable automation patterns.
• Strong analytical, debugging, and communication skills.
• Proven ability to work confidently with cross-functional teams.

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

Test automation

Java

JavaScript/TypeScript

Python

C#

Selenium

Playwright

Cypress

RestAssured

Appium

CI/CD

AWS

Microservices

Containers

Debugging

Cross-functional teams

Mentoring

Tools

Selenium

Playwright

Cypress

RestAssured

Appium

Job description

IBM Consulting UK FutureNow is seeking a Senior Full Stack Quality Engineer to lead end-to-end quality assurance for major migration initiatives. You will define test approaches, build full-stack automation, and integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines across UI, API, services, and data layers.

In this senior role you will mentor engineers, collaborate with architects and DevOps, and drive reusable automation assets to accelerate testing in a large multi-supplier environment.