Test Specialist - Defence

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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 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.

Key Responsibilities

• 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 program, 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 the software meets quality standards and functional requirements before release.

Preferred Education

Bachelor\’s Degree

Required Technical And Professional Expertise

• 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 levels of testing.
• Understands testing requirements, builds optimized test scenarios, develops automation to execute test along with test data and environment related automation, executes automated testing and achieves test outcome.
• Has understanding to all the contemporary technology trends: Agile, DevOps, Containers and has the ability to integrate testing automation into overall delivery automation.
• Collaborate with cross functional team members to implement test automation best practices.

Benefits

• Many training opportunities from classroom to e-learning, mentoring and coaching programs and the chance to gain industry recognized 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 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 personal pension plan of an additional 5% of your base salary paid by us monthly to save for your future.

Requirements

• Valid right to work in the United Kingdom.
• No visa sponsorship. Applicants must be residents in the UK and have lived continuously in the UK for the last 10 years.
• Must hold or be able to gain a UK government security clearance.

Equal Opportunity Statement

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.