EP - Functional Tester

Salary: £41,000 - 45,000 per year

Requirements:

• Proven experience working as a Functional Tester or Quality Engineer.
• Experience defining test approaches, test strategies or test plans.
• Strong experience creating and executing functional test cases and test scenarios.
• Experience producing test artefacts and maintaining test documentation.
• Experience recording, managing and retesting defects.
• Ability to work effectively within large, complex or multi-disciplinary programme teams.
• Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills.
• Experience collaborating with client teams, technical teams and delivery partners.
• Minimum 5 years of UK residency.
• Must be currently based in the UK.
• Ability to complete mandatory BPSS screening and the required client clearance process.
• Experience testing applications being migrated to AWS.
• Experience working in a multi-supplier environment.
• Experience testing integration points or supporting integration-focused projects.
• Experience working on public-sector, government or highly regulated transformation programmes.
• Experience working within an IBM delivery environment.
• Familiarity with Agile delivery and structured quality-assurance processes.

Responsibilities:

• Support the definition of test approaches, strategies and plans for the re-factoring and migration of key applications.
• Analyse requirements and develop appropriate test scenarios, test cases and test artefacts.
• Execute functional testing throughout the application migration lifecycle.
• Validate that the refactored application meets agreed business, technical and quality requirements.
• Support integration testing across application interfaces and connected systems.
• Record, manage and track defects through to resolution.
• Produce clear and accurate test evidence, reports and documentation.
• Collaborate with IBM, DWP, client and other supplier teams to coordinate testing activities.
• Contribute to quality assurance and release-readiness assessments.
• Identify risks, issues and dependencies that may affect testing or deployment.
• Support continuous improvement of testing processes, standards and best practice.

Technologies:

• AWS
• IBM
• Support
• Cloud

More:

We are hiring a Functional Tester to support a major Department for Work and Pensions transformation programme within a large IBM programme team. We are working on the re-factoring and migration of key DWP applications, and the role involves close collaboration with IBM, client and multi-supplier teams to ensure the application is thoroughly tested, validated and quality-assured before deployment. The role is based in Winchester or London at an IBM office, with a minimum of 3 days onsite per week; the first month requires 5 days onsite subject to project requirements. BPSS and client clearance are required, and candidates must have a minimum of 5 years of UK residency and currently be based in the UK. If you receive suspicious outreach claiming to be from us, please contact us via the ManpowerGroup website.

last updated 33 week of 2026