Senior Full-Stack Test Engineer — Automation & CI/CD

IBM; Manchester; On-site; GBP 75,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Maternity returners scheme

25 days holiday

Private medical

Dental cover

Optical cover

Employee Assistance Program

Group pension plan

Job summary

IBM Consulting UK FutureNow is seeking a Senior Full Stack Quality Engineer to lead automation across UI, API, services, and integration layers during major refactoring and migration projects. You will define test strategies, build scalable automation, and integrate tests into CI/CD with cross-functional teams.

The role requires mentoring, problem solving, and delivering reusable test assets within a multi-supplier environment.

Qualifications

• Design scalable automation across UI, API, services and integration layers.
• Automate end-to-end tests and integrate into CI/CD pipelines.
• Provide reusable automation assets and mentor engineers.

Responsibilities

• Define test approaches and quality strategies for large 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.
• Develop reusable automation assets to support testing.
• Execute manual and automated tests to validate app behavior during migration.
• Collaborate with developers, architects, and DevOps teams to troubleshoot issues.
• Analyse defects, perform root cause analysis, and drive continuous quality improvement.
• Work within a multi-supplier environment, managing dependencies across teams.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring within the programme.

Skills

Java

JavaScript/TypeScript

Python

C#

Automation design

Test automation

Mentoring

Tools

Selenium

Playwright

Cypress

RestAssured

Appium

GitHub/GitLab/Jenkins

Azure DevOps

Job description

IBM Consulting UK FutureNow is seeking a Senior Full Stack Quality Engineer to lead automation across UI, API, services, and integration layers during major refactoring and migration projects. You will define test strategies, build scalable automation, and integrate tests into CI/CD with cross-functional teams.

The role requires mentoring, problem solving, and delivering reusable test assets within a multi-supplier environment.