Introduction
Do you have a passion for learning and applying modern software engineering practices? Are you excited to use these practices to deliver and manage mission critical services at scale? Are you a quick thinker? If so, please read on.
Do you love to solve business problems with systems and integrations? Do you want every day to be a bit different and allow you to work with individuals across the spectrum of the organization? Then you just may be a fit for this critical software developer role.
IBM is trailblazing new solutions and services that span key technologies within the IBM Infrastructure portfolio. We are looking for experienced candidates focused on back-end development. As a software engineer, the ideal candidate must bring a deep level of experience designing, implementing, and troubleshooting modern as-a-service and cloud capabilities.
In addition, they are accountable as individuals and organizational leaders for delivering value by bringing relevant technology domain and implementation expertise in topics aligned with cloud platform integration, orchestration & provisioning, security and DevOps.
As an IBM software developer, you are also expected to assist in the gathering of business and technical requirements, to implement specific technologies while demonstrating progress on a regular basis and to partner with technical leads or project managers to identify and overcome blockers.

Your Role and Responsibilities

As an Automation Engineer, you will play a crucial role in designing, developing, and implementing automated solutions to streamline our processes, increase efficiency, and optimize productivity. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify automation opportunities, design robust automation frameworks, and execute end-to-end automation testing. The ideal candidate should have a strong background in software development, proficiency in automation tools, and a passion for continuous improvement.
Responsibilities include:

• Write test plans and test cases for features
• Develop and run automated test cases (function and end-to-end) Should be able to run continually or as needed
• Build sufficient expertise in the IBM Cloud to enable proactive test automation coverage
• Must be able to provide thorough and timely test execution to ensure timely deliverables
• Develop centralized configuration code.
• Identify and remediate any and all security vulnerabilities and issues.
• Work with and improvements on our ansible code deployment and CICD pipelines
• Continually improve test systems and processes with regard to automation and monitoring.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• 5-8 years of experience with test automation
• Python automation development experience of unit/functional/integration/performance tests
• Experience in developing/extending automation framework using Python
• Test Automation tools experience for API, CLI
• Automation of SOAP and REST APIs
• Experience in tools such as Jira, GitHub, Zenhub, knowledge of Continuous Integration and Continuous Development
• Excellent knowledge of product life cycle, tools, processes and operations planning.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Knowledge of Bash scripting, Ansible, Terraform, PHP and/or Go Lang
• IBM Cloud API knowledge