Introduction In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centres (Delivery Centres), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centres offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology. A career in IBM Consulting is rooted by long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe. You'll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio, including Software and Red Hat. Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success in IBM Consulting. In your role, you'll be encouraged to challenge the norm, investigate ideas outside of your role, and come up with creative solutions resulting in ground-breaking impact for a wide network of clients. Our culture of evolution and empathy centres on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience. We offer: Regular and frequent promotion and progression opportunities to ensure you can drive and develop your career with us Feedback and checkpoints throughout the year; no one off annual reviews here A multitude of training opportunities from classroom to e-learning, mentoring and coaching programs as well as the chance to gain industry recognized certifications 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 programs, 1 month paid paternity leave, 16 weeks fully paid maternity leave and an innovative maternity returners scheme More traditional benefits, such as 25 days holiday, a gym discount scheme, online shopping discounts, an Employee Assistance Program, 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 the Quality Engineer role 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 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 optimized 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. In summary. Key Responsibilities: Building automated tests using tools such as Selenium, Protractor, Katalon, Cucumber, etc. 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 program, application or set of applications Do a deep-dive and present test results to clients and project teams clearly Required technical and professional expertise - Must be a UK National with minimum 5 years residency Project delivery experience with test case creation and execution in different circumstances and various technology stacks in an Agile way of working Debugging/tracing and logging experience with logging tech stack incl. Splunk Adobe Insights Azure Application Insights Azure EventHub Qualtrics - Capability to write and implement a performance test strategy - Ability to write and maintain both performance test scenarios and performance Volumetric model - Experience using Gatling and Azure Dev Ops - Test case automation scripts - Azure DevOps - CI/CD - Java - Selenium - BrowserStack - Docker and Application Architecture 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 5 years. You must be able to hold or gain a UK government security clearance. IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and 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, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.