Test Automation Engineer - Defence

IBM; Hursley; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 55,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working approaches

25 days holiday plus public holidays

Private medical and dental cover

Training opportunities

Job summary

A global technology leader seeks a Quality Engineer in Hursley, UK. This role focuses on automating testing processes to ensure efficient software delivery. Candidates should possess strong knowledge in Java DevOps, experience writing test automation scripts, and familiarity with tools like Selenium and Cypress. Responsibilities include building automated tests, designing test data, and presenting testing outcomes. A Bachelor's degree is required along with the ability to work in the UK without visa sponsorship.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in a relevant field.
• Strong Java DevOps infrastructure experience.
• Experience in writing test automation scripts.
• Familiarity with testing automation tools.

Responsibilities

• Streamline testing processes through automation.
• Build automated tests using various tools.
• Design and create test data and environments.
• Present test results to clients and project teams.

Job description

Introduction

At IBM CIC, we provide technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients in the UK. A career in IBM CIC means you’ll have the opportunity to work with leading professionals across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. You will get the chance to deliver effective solutions, driving meaningful business change for our clients, using some of the latest technology platforms. Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success here. You’ll be encouraged and supported to constantly reinvent yourself, focusing on skills in demand in an ever changing market. You’ll be working with diverse teams, coming up with creative solutions which impact a wide network of clients, who 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.

We Offer

• Many training opportunities from classroom to e‑learning, mentoring and coaching programs and the chance to gain industry recognised 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 programmes, paid paternity leave, maternity leave and an innovative maternity returners scheme
• More traditional benefits, such as 25 days holiday (in addition to public holidays), private medical, dental & optical cover, online shopping discounts, an Employee Assistance Programme, life assurance and a group personal pension plan of an additional 5% of your base salary paid by us monthly to save for your future.

Your Role And Responsibilities

As a Quality Engineer with expertise in Automation, you will be a skilled professional who streamlines testing processes through automation, ensuring efficient and reliable software delivery. You will have specialist skills in creating and maintaining automated testing solutions for IT systems and applications. You will possess in‑depth knowledge of various test automation tools and technologies and use them to build optimised test scenarios, develop automation for executing tests, and manage test data and environment‑related automation. This role requires understanding and integrating testing automation into overall delivery automation, aligning with contemporary trends like Agile, DevOps and Containers.

Key Responsibilities

• Building automated tests using tools such as Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, Katalon, Cucumber, etc.
• Design and create test data and test environments
• Write and execute test scripts under the direction of a senior tester and test lead and identify errors and validate successes for any software solution
• Identify, understand and document all programming errors and operational characteristics that are inconsistent with stated requirements and design specification goals for the given programme, application or set of applications
• Do a deep‑dive and present test results to clients and project teams clearly

Preferred Education

Bachelor's Degree

Required Technical And Professional Expertise

• Strong Java DevOps infrastructure experience
• Experience of writing test automation scripts
• Model office testing, experience in performing end‑to‑end testing and UAT testing, business testing.
• Experience with automation builds for the testing of IT systems and applications.
• Highly experienced in multiple test automation tools and technologies and use these to build and maintain automation solutions to test applications and IT systems across the levels of testing.
• Understands testing requirements, builds optimised test scenarios, develops automation to execute test along with test data and environment related automation, executes automated testing and achieves test outcome.
• Has understanding of all the contemporary technology trends: Agile, DevOps, Containers and has the ability to integrate testing automation into overall delivery automationli>
• Collaborate with cross‑functional team members to implement test automation best practices
• Log track and report defects using issue‑tracking tools ensuring clear communication with developers.
• Re‑test software after bug fixes to verify successful resolution and ensure no regression.
• Ensure the software meets quality standards and functional requirements before release.

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 10 years. You must be able to hold or gain a UK government security clearance.