QA Engineer

About the position

A career in IBM Software means you'll be part of a team that transforms our customer's challenges into solutions. Seeking new possibilities and always staying curious, we are a team dedicated to creating the world's leading AI-powered, cloud-native software solutions for our customers. Our renowned legacy creates endless global opportunities for our IBMers, so the door is always open for those who want to grow their career. IBM's product and technology landscape includes Research, Software, and Infrastructure. Entering this domain positions you at the heart of IBM, where growth and innovation thrive.

Responsibilities

• Accelerate the delivery and improve the quality of the IBM Cloud and other enterprise Object Storage deployments.
• Be part of a test team working on problems in distributed systems, Exabyte-scale storage, Linux OS distribution, and network protocols.
• 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.
• Solve increasingly complex technical issues through analysis and a variety of problem-solving techniques.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or similar field.
• 1 to 3 years of relevant work experience.
• 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.

Nice-to-haves

• 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.