Non-Functional Test Engineer - Public Sector

IBM

Boston (MA)

Hybrid

USD 66,000 - 93,000

Full time

5 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Maternity/paternity leave

Private medical cover

Employee Pension Plan

Job summary

IBM Consulting is seeking a Non-Functional Test Engineer for Public Sector to join our hybrid delivery teams. You’ll define test approaches, build full‑stack automation, and validate migration projects end‑to‑end.

You’ll mentor engineers, work with architects and DevOps, and drive quality improvements in a multi‑supplier environment, including CI/CD integration. This role may involve national security screening and vetting processes.

Qualifications

Strong experience designing and implementing automation across UI, API, services, and integration layers.
Hands‑on with automation tools such as Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, RestAssured, Appium, etc.
Understanding of microservices, containers, and distributed architectures.
Ability to design scalable automation patterns and test models.

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, scripts, and data models.
Automate end‑to‑end tests and integrate into CI/CD pipelines for continuous quality checks.
Collaborate with developers, architects, and DevOps to troubleshoot issues and ensure readiness.

Skills

Automation design

Selenium

Playwright

CI/CD

Microservices

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Selenium

Playwright

Cypress

RestAssured

Appium

Job description

At IBM Consulting UK FutureNow, you’ll build a career at the forefront of hybrid cloud and AI, working with leading clients across the public and private sectors.

You’ll collaborate with top industry professionals, gain hands on experience with cutting edge technologies, and deliver solutions that create real business impact. From day one, you’ll work on meaningful, high profile programmes that stretch your skills and accelerate your growth.

We invest heavily in you—supporting continuous learning, in demand skills development, and long term career progression. You’ll thrive in a flexible, inclusive environment that values curiosity, encourages reinvention, and recognises what makes you unique.

We offer:

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), private medical, dental & optical cover, online shopping discounts, an Employee Assistance Program, life assurance and a group pension plan through salary sacrifice.

In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centers (Delivery Centers), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

Your role and responsibilities

The Full Stack Quality Engineer will support the comprehensive testing and assurance of key applications undergoing significant refactoring and migration. You will work directly with client teams and within a large IBM programme to ensure end‑to‑end validation throughout the migration lifecycle. This includes defining the test approach, producing high‑quality test artefacts, building full‑stack automation frameworks, and executing tests across UI, API, services, microservices, data, and integration layers.In this senior role, you will design scalable automation solutions, integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines, and collaborate with architects, developers, DevOps teams, and stakeholders. You will provide expert guidance on quality engineering practices within a complex, multi‑supplier environment and support functional testers by delivering reusable automation assets that accelerate testing efficiency.

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

Required education

None

Preferred education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

Strong experience designing and implementing automation across UI, API, services,

and integration layers

or C#
Hands‑on experience with automation tools (Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, RestAssured, Appium, etc.)
Strong understanding of microservices, containers, and distributed architectures
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

This role is subject to pre‑employment screening in line with the UK Government’s Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS). An additional range of Personal Security Controls referred to as National Security Vetting (NVS) may apply, this could include meeting the eligibility requirements for The Security Check (SC) or Developed Vetting (DV).

Preferred technical and professional experience

Experience testing systems migrating to AWS
Experience working in multi‑supplier or large enterprise delivery environments
Experience testing integration points or integration‑focused solutions
Exposure to large‑scale refactoring or transformation programmes
Experience mentoring or supporting other engineers

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Consulting is IBM’s consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients’ businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

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Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on‑going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can‑do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

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Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal‑opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

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Job Title

Non-Functional Test Engineer - Public Sector

Job ID

132051

City / Township / Village

State / Province

Hampshire, London, City of, Manchester, Leicester

Country

United Kingdom

Work arrangement

Hybrid

Area of work