Quality Engineer-Performance & Resilience Management

Introduction
In this role, you’ll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centers (Delivery Centers), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world.​ Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

A career in IBM Consulting is rooted by long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe.

You’ll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio; including Software and Red Hat.

Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success in IBM Consulting. In your role, you’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm, investigate ideas outside of your role, and come up with creative solutions resulting in ground breaking impact for a wide network of clients. Our culture of evolution and empathy centers on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.

Your Role and Responsibilities
This role focuses on building and maintaining automation for testing IT systems and applications. It involves using various test automation tools and technologies to create and manage automation solutions across different testing levels. Responsibilities include understanding testing requirements, designing test scenarios, developing and executing automation, and managing test data and environments. The role also requires knowledge of contemporary technology trends like Agile, DevOps, and Containers, and the ability to integrate test automation into overall delivery processes.

• Responsible for examining and evaluating performance criteria and standards compliance to ensure that new and amended systems, together with any interfaces, perform as specified.
• Plans and develops the test design during test specification development with focus on both the functional and non-functional requirements for testability against the technical acceptance criteria and quality metrics.
• Works with the Test Architect to define the test automation framework, methods and tools to uncover performance issues.
• Demonstrates proficiency in utilizing performance tools, analyzing results, resolving performance related issues, including optimization and tuning.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Proven experience in performance testing and tuning.
• Proficiency in performance testing tools (e.g., JMeter, LoadRunner).
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration abilities.
• 6+ Years of hands-on experience in Performance Testing
• Demonstrates technical expertise in their field focused on the technical aspects of testing performance, load, scalability / capacity, networks and infrastructure.
• Has expertise in the planning, design, management, execution, and reporting of tests using appropriate testing tools and techniques.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
NA