Consulting Programme Test Manager (PTM) / Senior Quality Engineering Consultant Professional Lo ...

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 Business Transformation Consultant with expertise in Quality Engineering, you serve as a subject matter expert in testing, collaborating with clients or delivery leadership to provide advisory services.

• Shape Test Strategies: Collaborate with clients or delivery leadership to define complex test strategies, providing advisory services that meet their testing needs. This involves assessing test capabilities and implementing transformation roadmaps.
• Guide Test Solution Delivery: Guide the delivery team in test solution delivery, ensuring a comprehensive approach to testing transformation. Your expertise spans across various industries and platforms.
• Advise on Testing Methodology: Contribute significantly during the sales cycle, advising C level executives on testing methodology, tools, and approaches. This requires deep expertise in testing and the ability to communicate effectively with senior leaders.
• Assess Test Capabilities: Assess test capabilities and identify areas for improvement, implementing transformation roadmaps that drive business outcomes.
• Implement Transformation Roadmaps: Implement transformation roadmaps, guiding the delivery team in test solution delivery and ensuring a comprehensive approach to testing transformation.
• Overall Test Delivery Lead for all test responsibilities across the SDLC. The PTM will plan and shape the overall strategy and direction for the team aligning skills and capability to accomplish the programme goals. Establish policies & procedures for the team. Own and manage testing risks and issues, drive innovation, continuous improvements and test optimisation.
• Establish the working practices, governance, assurance, controls, and processes across the test team. Work with workstreams / partners / 3rd parties to ensure scope and boundaries are agreed, assurance mechanisms are in place and interlocks where required across the rest of the ecosystem.
• Drive day to day testing across the test phases they are responsible for including test artefacts are produced on time. May cover one or more of the IBM led test phases for example OAT & Performance test, Component, System and Integration test.

Required education

None

Preferred education

None

Required technical and professional expertise

• Deep Expertise in Testing: Proven experience in serving as a subject matter expert in testing, with a strong background in shaping solutioning and defining complex test strategies across various industries and platforms.
• Industry Agnostic Testing Knowledge: Experience working with multiple industries, with a comprehensive understanding of testing methodologies, tools, and approaches that can be applied to drive business outcomes.
• Transformation Roadmap Implementation: Experience in assessing test capabilities, identifying areas for improvement, and implementing transformation roadmaps that drive business outcomes.
• Executive Level Advisory Services: Proven ability to advise C level executives on testing methodology, tools, and approaches, requiring effective communication and deep expertise in testing.
• Cross Platform Testing Expertise: Experience working with various platforms, ensuring a comprehensive approach to testing transformation and guiding the delivery team in test solution delivery.

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Multi Industry Testing Knowledge: Experience with testing methodologies, tools, and approaches across various industries, enabling a comprehensive approach to testing transformation.
• Cross Platform Testing Expertise: Deep expertise in working with multiple platforms, guiding the delivery team in test solution delivery and ensuring a comprehensive approach to testing transformation.

As an equal opportunity 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. Unfortunately, we do not offer visa sponsorship and have no future plans to do so. You must be a resident in the UK and have been living continuously in the UK for the last five years.

IBM 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, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

Other relevant job details: Some travel may be required based on business demand.