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Programme Test Manager (PTM) / Senior Quality Engineering Consultant

IBM

IBM

Quality Assurance
London, UK
Posted on Apr 1, 2026
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 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.

You shape solutioning and define complex test strategies, leveraging your expertise across various industries and platforms. Your primary responsibilities will include:

• 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.

verall 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

The PTM will establish the working practices, governance, assurance, controls, and processes across the test team. The PTM will 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. The PTM will drive day to day testing across the test phases they are responsible for including test artefacts are produced on time. They 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 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. 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 5 years.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Consulting is IBM’s consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients’ businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

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

IBM wants you to bring your whole self to work and for you this might mean the ability to work flexibly. If you are interested in a flexible working pattern, please talk to our recruitment team to find out if this is possible in the current working environment.