Test Automation Engineer - Defence

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.

• 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 processes 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.

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 such as Agile, Dev Ops, and Containers. In summary, you will play a pivotal role in our testing strategy, ensuring high quality and rapid delivery across the product lifecycle.

• Building automated tests using tools such as Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, Katalon, Cucumber, etc.
• Designing and creating test data and test environments
• Writing and executing test scripts under the direction of a senior tester and test lead, identifying errors and validating successes for any software solution
• Identifying, understanding and documenting 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
• Conducting deep‑dives and presenting test results to clients and project teams clearly.

Bachelor's Degree

• Strong Java Dev Ops infrastructure experience
• Experience writing test automation scripts
• Modelling 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…