Test Specialist

3 months ago


Leicester, United Kingdom IBM Full time

**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 a Test Specialist at IBM, your analytical and technical skills will directly impact the quality of the software we create. Come work in an agile environment where you will help each iteration reach the next level. Whether the testing is manual, automated, or cognitive, you hold a key role in releasing the best deliverables to IBM’ers and our clients. Your role will involve:

- Working within an agile development team to design implement and sustain new and innovative software solutions to support our client mission.
- Ensuring that all software is fully tested fully maintained robust and fit for purpose.
- Managing the continuous integration pipeline for automated deployment.
- Developing alongside other developer colleagues; reviewing code providing recommendations and working off a backlog of JIRA Kanban tasks.
- Understanding the ecosystem and evolving how it is maintained on our platform.
- Keeping abreast of the latest cloud technologies and sharing knowledge of tools and techniques with the wider team both developers and non-developers.
- Working collaboratively within the team using Agile Ways of Working using tools such as Slack WebEx and Atlas.

**Required Technical and Professional Expertise**
- Strong Automation Test skills required, including automated testing tools & frameworks such as Gherkin/Cucumber, Selenium, Jest, Citrus.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
- Excellent verbal and written communication.
- Solid understanding of the software development lifecycle.
- Experience of working in an agile software development environment.

**Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise**
- Experience of some of the following technologies and approaches for planning and executing automated QA tasks: Gitlab, Docker, Kubernetes, custom API testing, JUnit (preferably JUnit 5), REST Assure.
- Proficient in best practices like Behavior Driven Development (BDD) with JavaScript frameworks such as Cypress ( optionally Puppeteer and Cucumber.js or similar ), Test Driven Development (TDD) and Continuous Performance Testing using open-source toolsets.
- Hands-on experience with functional testing, integration testing, regression testing, mobile testing, big data testing, cross platform testing, component testing, security testing, performance testing, UI/UX testing, A/B testing.
- Comfortable working in a mixed Windows/Linux AWS environment with VS Code and In



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