Test Specialist - Defence

Overview

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 gives you 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 deliver effective solutions, driving meaningful business change, using some of the latest technology platforms.

Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success here. You will be encouraged and supported to continually reinvent yourself, focusing on skills that are in demand in an ever changing market. You will work with diverse teams, coming up with creative solutions that impact a wide network of clients, who may be on site or at an IBM CIC or IBM location.

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 programmes 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 programmes 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.

• 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, Dev Ops and Containers.

• Building automated tests using tools such as Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, Katalon, Cucumber, etc.
• Design and create test data and test environments
• Create and maintain test plans based on software requirements.
• Perform manual and automated tests to identify bugs, defects or issues.
• Write test cases and scripts, identify errors and validate successes for any software solution.
• Identify, understand and document all errors and operational characteristics that are inconsistent with stated requirements and design specification goals for the given programme, application or set of applications.
• Present test results to clients and project teams clearly.
• Log, track and report defects using issue‑tracking tools ensuring clear communication with developers.
• Validate fixes: re‑test software after bug fixes to verify successful resolution and ensure no regression.
• Ensure quality: ensure the software meets quality standards and functional requirements before release.

Bachelor's Degree

• 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…