**Introduction** A career in IBM Consulting is built on long-term client relationships and close collaboration worldwide. You’ll work with leading companies across industries, helping them shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. With support from our strategic partners, robust IBM technology, and Red Hat, you’ll have the tools to drive meaningful change and accelerate client impact. At IBM Consulting, curiosity fuels success. You’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm, explore new ideas, and create innovative solutions that deliver real results. Our culture of growth and empathy focuses on your long-term career development while valuing your unique skills and experiences. **Your role and responsibilities** * As a Quality Engineer: Automation, you specialize in creating and maintaining automated testing solutions for IT systems and applications. You possess in-depth knowledge of various test automation tools and technologies to optimize testing processes. Your primary responsibilities will include: * Develop Automation Solutions: Design and implement automated testing solutions to ensure efficient and reliable software delivery, utilizing expertise in test automation tools and technologies. * Build Optimized Test Scenarios: Create optimized test scenarios to streamline testing processes, aligning with contemporary trends like Agile, DevOps, and Containers. * Manage Test Data and Environment: Develop and maintain automation for managing test data and environment-related automation to support seamless testing processes. * Integrate Testing Automation: Collaborate to integrate testing automation into overall delivery automation, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and methodologies. * Execute Tests: Apply expertise in automation to execute tests, ensuring high-quality software delivery and identifying areas for process improvement. **Required technical and professional expertise** * Test Automation Tools Expertise: Exposure to various test automation tools and technologies, with the ability to design and implement automated testing solutions for IT systems and applications. * Automated Testing Solution Development: Experience working with test automation tools to build optimized test scenarios, ensuring efficient and reliable software delivery. * Test Data Management: Exposure to automation for managing test data and environment-related automation, supporting seamless testing processes. * Delivery Automation Integration: Experience working with integrating testing automation into overall delivery automation, aligning with contemporary trends like Agile, DevOps, and Containers. * Automated Test Execution: Exposure to applying expertise in automation to execute tests, ensuring high-quality software delivery and identifying areas for process improvement. **Preferred technical and professional experience** * Contemporary Trends Knowledge: Exposure to contemporary trends like Agile, DevOps, and Containers, with the ability to align testing automation with these methodologies. * Test Automation Optimization: Experience working with various test automation tools and technologies to optimize testing processes and ensure efficient software delivery. * Delivery Automation Understanding: Exposure to integrating testing automation into overall delivery automation, with the ability to collaborate and ensure alignment with organizational goals and methodologies. IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.