QA Engineer

Introduction
The IBM Cloud Networking Tribe is looking for a talented, innovative and enthusiastic Test Automation engineer that will build the next generation IAAS to make our customers succeed. The IBM Cloud Networking Tribe has a global cloud presence that continues to grow and expand its reach. Our Network Services engineering team is responsible for delivering virtual network services with top-notch performance, first-rate security, fail-safe reliability and exceptional quality.

An IBM Cloud Test Automation engineer will be the key individual responsible for end to end feature testing. You will ensure the features delivered functionality and stability are meeting the highest quality standards, working to increase the knowledge and performance of the collective team. In addition, you will interface with senior architects and developers across several locations to ensure that the overall testing strategy is communicated and understood.

We are a global team, so communication skills (both verbal and written) are critical as well as flexibility to work with team members in other time zones.

Your Role and Responsibilities

• Develop thorough test plans and document the results and progress
• Develop in depths functionality and stability automatic tests that will map customer use cases
• Research the right set of workloads and benchmarks
• Develop automated test scenarios and environments for End2End automatic evaluation
• Collect test evidence measurements to ensure system functionality, stability and scalability
• Establish automatic measure to assess the accuracy
• Analyze results to find ways to improve the functionality coverage
• Analyze root causes and identify areas for improvement
• Collaborate with development teams to drive resolution for issues and improvement
• Generate test automation summary reports for stakeholder’s review

How we’ll help you grow:
You’ll have access to all the technical and management training courses you need to become the expert you want to be.
You’ll learn directly from expert developers in the field; our SME’s love to mentor.
You will have the opportunity to work in many different areas to figure out what really excites you.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• 2-5 years of Testing / QA experience.
• Experience on Public or Private cloud.
• Experience in Networking – Layer 4 and Layer 7 (OSI model)
• Knowledge of bash, php, awk, python
• Good English communication skills (written and oral) and be able to work independently and as part of a team.
• Knowledge of REST technologies is important advantage.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Cloud network concepts including software defined networking, virtual private cloud (VPC), network services such as load balancer, firewall, gateway as it fits in cloud network infrastructure
• Working knowledge of cloud network infrastructure technologies
• Kubernetes, Docker
• 2-5 years of experience of Automation – goLang or Python
• Working knowledge of Nework tools is an important advantage.
• Knowledge of Windows and Linux operating systems
• Knowledge of Github and Jira is an advantage.
• Fast learner and a team player