Software QA Engineer

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 As a Software QA Engineer, you have the opportunity to accelerate the delivery and improve the quality of the IBM Cloud and other enterprise Object Storage deployments. You will be part of a test team that is working on problems in a number of areas, including distributed systems, Exabyte-scale storage, Linux OS distribution and network protocols.

IBM’s breadth of technology offers an amazing range of opportunities for you to make a big impact on the quality of storage used in the IBM Cloud and in some of the largest storage installations in the world.

The successful candidate will be a highly analytical, collaborative engineer who is capable of exercising judgment in selecting the appropriate test scenarios and test methodologies, interpreting and report system behavior against customer expectations and communicating anomalous observations to the development teams.

The Position: The Details

• 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.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• 2+ years of relevant IT experience.
• Ability and tenacity to solve increasingly complex technical issues through analysis and a variety of problem-solving techniques.
• 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.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• 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