Test Specialist: Performance & Resilience Management

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

As a Test Specialist at IBM, your analytical and technical skills will directly impact the quality of the software we create. Come work in an agile environment where you will help each iteration reach the next level. Whether the testing is manual, automated, or cognitive, you hold a key role in releasing the best deliverables to IBM’ers and our clients.

Your Role and Responsibilities

• As Test Specialist, you will be responsible for testing performance, load, scalability / capacity, networks and infrastructure.
• You will be involved in the planning, design, management, execution, and reporting of tests using appropriate testing tools and techniques.
• Responsible to administer and manage the complete Delivery with support Skills Performance and Capacity Management.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Minimum 3- 7 years of experience in Performance Testing
• Expertise with industry-standard Load testing tools such as HP Load Runner, Performance Centre, Jmeter and SoapUI, and IBM Rational Performance Tester
• Proven knowledge of Testing manual/functional testing processes, methodology, defect management and defect life cycle.
• Experience in developing the VuGen scripts, debugging, resolving the issues and usage of monitoring tools like DynaTrace,App dymamics and VMstats.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Understanding, measuring, and tuning of n-tier applications in clustered environments
• Preparing a Performance Test Strategy is added advantage
• Experience in Operational readiness testing, CPU, physical Memory, and disk usage analysis