QA Manager

Introduction
At IBM, work is more than a job – it’s a calling: To build. To design. To code. To consult. To think along with clients and sell. To make markets. To invent. To collaborate. Not just to do something better, but to attempt things you’ve never thought possible. Are you ready to lead in this new era of technology and solve some of the world’s most challenging problems? If so, lets talk.

Your Role and Responsibilities
The shift toward the consumption of IT as a service, i.e., the cloud, is one of the most important changes to happen to our industry in decades. At IBM, we are driven to shift our technology to an as-a-service model
and to help our clients transform themselves to take full advantage of the cloud. With industry leadership in analytics, security, commerce, and cognitive computing and with unmatched hardware and software design
and industrial research capabilities, no other company is as well positioned to address the full opportunity of cloud computing.

QA team members 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 member 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.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• 5+ years of relevant work experience.
• Someone who can work with Command Line Interface and well versed with K8s (networking related to Kube, overall architecture of K8s)
• Programming skills: Python, REST API programming, Triage and Bug Fixing
• Domain : Networking, Storage, Cloud, Datacentres
• Linux : Proficiency with Linux commands and debugging
• Testing Skills: API Testing, Functional Testing, Automated Testing, Test plan Development,
• Tools: PyCharm, JIRA, QTest, Confluence

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Container performance and security knowledge.
• Experience with Agile software development
• Jira and Confluence working experience.
• Containers and K8 security experience.