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Your Role and Responsibilities We are looking for a highly motivated Software Development Engineer in Test who is passionate about learning new things, and designing better ways to identify potential weak spots, inefficiencies, and issues within software systems. The ideal candidate is well-versed in test automation, agile software development, and software testing methodologies. This position will work closely with development teams and other test engineers in the implementation and delivery of software products that meet rigorous quality standards, budgets, and timelines. If you are a talented professional who seeks responsibility, thrives when empowered, and understands the importance of personal accountability, then we would like to talk with you. As a member of the IBM Cloud Software Quality Engineering team, you will have responsibilities towards an application centric cloud transformation, by close-teaming with other IT teams to deliver environments in an agile, consistent, repeatable and rapid manner using IaaS, PaaS, SaaS services. Individual will play a central role by delivering quality functions for development teams supporting test driven development framework. Scope will include Test Case writing, Test Case Execution, Automation Testing, Data Creation, API Validation, PR Reviews and operating a testing model that is self-service and innovative, supporting agile needs of IT teams. Hence, QA members will need to understand SDLC during an application development lifecycle and create the testing framework necessary to provide infrastructure solutions with development teams for non-production and production environments. Responsibilities:
Design, extend and enhance functional, regression, integration, and load/stress automated test suites.
Work closely with development teams to identify and triage system failures.
Help define software requirements from the perspective of test and quality.
Identify use cases within user stories, and write, implement, and execute test cases accordingly.
Monitor and report automated test execution results throughout the software release cycle.
Required Technical and Professional Expertise
5+ years of experience in automated quality engineering / software development / test automation in a Cloud environment.
Proficiency in Python programming language
Proficiency in UI automation with Selenium
Proficiency in using automated API testing tools like Postman, Thunder Client etc
Proficiency with shell/bash scripting and Linux/Unix command-line interface
Proficiency in scripting on PyCharm, Microsoft Visual Studio Code Editor etc
Exposure to agile development, test management, continuous integration, continuous development environment (CICD) with tools such as: GitHub, JIRA, Jenkins etc.
Other Tools: Confluence, telnet and ssh clients
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with ability to effectively articulate technical challenges and devise solutions
Ability to work Independently in a large matrix environment.
Troubleshoot and solve customer issues on production deployments
Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
Pytest and Allure Reports working experience.
Exposure to working on Public Clouds Infrastructure like AWS/GCP/Azure/IBM
Required Education: BE/MS/Mtech/MCA in computer science
