Software QA Engineer

  • Software Engineering
  • Entry Level

Software QA Engineer

  • Software Engineering
  • Entry Level

Introduction
At IBM, work is more than a job – it’s a calling: To build. To design. To code. To consult. To think along with clients and sell. To make markets. To invent. To collaborate. Not just to do something better, but to attempt things you’ve never thought possible. Are you ready to lead in this new era of technology and solve some of the world’s most challenging problems? If so, lets talk.

Your Role and Responsibilities

As a Software QA Engineer, you have the opportunity to accelerate the delivery and improve the quality of the IBM Cloud and other enterprise Object Storage deployments. You will be part of a test team that is working on problems in a number of areas, including distributed systems, Exabyte-scale storage, Linux OS distribution and network protocols.

IBM’s breadth of technology offers an amazing range of opportunities for you to make a big impact on the quality of storage used in the IBM Cloud and in some of the largest storage installations in the world.

The successful candidate will be a highly analytical, collaborative engineer who is capable of exercising judgment in selecting the appropriate test scenarios and test methodologies, interpreting and report system behavior against customer expectations and communicating anomalous observations to the development teams.

The Position: The Details

  • Analyze and decompose a complicated software system with changing hardware platforms and design the correct strategy to test this system.
  • Develop automated functional and system level tests using Python, participate in peer code reviews
  • Participate in feature development teams and communicate potential system impacting risks, requirement gaps and test scenarios.
  • Ensure comprehensive test coverage by participating in escaped defect analysis to identify deficiencies and improvements in the automated tests.
  • Create and manage tasks for newly introduced features and document test strategies and plans.
  • Communicate to team members on changes of functional system feature interactions and their system performance impacts.
  • Identify, recommend and implement automated test improvements for new and existing test scenarios.


Required Technical and Professional Expertise

  • Ability and tenacity to solve increasingly complex technical issues through analysis and a variety of problem-solving techniques.
  • Strong understanding of SQA methodologies and test development for complex systems.
  • Working knowledge of Object-Oriented Python with demonstrable experience in applying these skills to system integration testing.
  • Working knowledge of system APIs and their uses.
  • Ability to develop, execute and debug functional/system level tests.
  • Working knowledge of Linux environments.
  • Experience working in an Agile-Scrum development environment.
  • Experience using tools such as Jira, GitHub and Test case management tools
  • BS in CS, CE or similar field, plus 1 to 3 years relevant work experience.


Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

  • Working knowledge of storage industry client tools (e.g. boto3, s3cmd, postman) to perform S3
  • Knowledge of distributed computing principles, enterprise storage configurations and their usages.
  • Working knowledge of networking protocols
  • Object storage APIs and S3
  • Experience with Public Cloud services (IBM Cloud, AWS, Azure)
  • Experience using Docker
  • MS in CS, CE or similar field and 3+ years of relevant work experience.

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About Business Unit

IBM Systems helps IT leaders think differently about their infrastructure. IBM servers and storage are no longer inanimate – they can understand, reason, and learn so our clients can innovate while avoiding IT issues. Our systems power the world’s most important industries and our clients are the architects of the future. Join us to help build our leading-edge technology portfolio  designed for cognitive business and optimized for cloud computing.

This job requires you to be fully COVID-19 vaccinated prior to your start date and proof of vaccination status will be required before your start date. During the Onboarding process you will be asked to confirm your vaccination status, in case you are unable to get vaccinated for any reason, you can let us know at that stage. Please let us know if you are unable to be vaccinated due to medical or religious reasons. IBM will consider such requests on a case by case basis subject to submission of required proof by the candidate before a stipulated date.

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.

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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 50 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.


Location Statement

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Being You @ IBM

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