Automation Quality Engineer

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.

• 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.

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 centres offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

Your role and responsibilities

We are seeking a Quality Engineer with automation experience to help build reliable and efficient automated tests for our applications. You will develop automated test scripts, support CI/CD integration, and work alongside developers and Dev Ops teams to improve quality and speed of delivery.

You’ll use modern test automation tools and programming languages to automate UI, API, and integration tests. If you enjoy problem‑solving, building automation that reduces manual effort, and improving the delivery pipeline, we’d love to hear from you.

• Design, develop, and maintain automated test suites for functional, regression, integration, performance, and API testing.
• Build automation frameworks using industry‑standard tools and modern programming languages.
• Develop optimized test scenarios and ensure comprehensive test coverage aligned to acceptance criteria.
• Create automation for test environment setup, test execution, test data management, and environment validation.
• Integrate test automation into CI/CD pipelines, working closely with Dev Ops to enable continuous testing.
• Contribute to quality engineering practices aligned with Agile, Dev Ops, and containerised delivery models.
• Monitor test execution results, troubleshoot failures, and provide actionable insights to development teams.
• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams to improve product quality, identify risks, and advocate for automated testing best practices.
• Participate in requirement analysis, sprint planning, and backlog grooming to ensure quality is built in from the start.
• Drive adoption of…