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Introduction

A career in IBM Software means you’ll be part of a team that transforms our customer’s challenges into solutions. 

 

Seeking new possibilities and always staying curious, we are a team dedicated to creating the world’s leading AI-powered, cloud-native software solutions for our customers. Our renowned legacy creates endless global opportunities for our IBMers, so the door is always open for those who want to grow their career. 

 

We are looking for creative highly motivated individuals who want to understand how systems and applications work together to provide end to end business solutions.

 

IBM’s product and technology landscape includes Research, Software, and Infrastructure. Entering this domain positions you at the heart of IBM, where growth and innovation thrive.

Your role and responsibilities

As a Software Development Manager for a QA (Quality Assurance) /Test Development team working on IBM’s enterprise-ready Data and AI platform - which includes the IBM Software Hub platform, IBM Cloud Pak for Data and IBM watsonx - you will be leading a team whose mandate is to find better ways to identify potential weak spots, inefficiencies, and issues within software systems.    

 

In this position you will work closely with development teams, test engineers and customer facing teams in the implementation and delivery of software products to meet full end-to-end user scenarios.  

 

Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Master's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
  • 8+ years of experience in leading teams as manager with hands on experience in people management, coaching and mentoring.
  • Experience building and managing development and Quality Assurance teams
  • Understanding of QA principles, planning,  execution and project management as well as Agile tools and methodologies
  • Excellent communication, problem solving and conflict resolution skills with a strong focus on collaboration across global teams.
  • Experience working with various stakeholders such as product management, client-facing teams, support, and operations.
  • Software development background with prior familiarity with any modern programming language such as Java/Java Script/JMeter and scripting languages such as Python/Perl/Groovy /Bash
  • Understanding of test automation development and frameworks. 
Preferred technical and professional experience
  • Understanding of containerized solutions including Docker/Kubernetes/OpenShift is a plus 
  • Understanding of data sources ( e.g. Snowflake, Teradata, DB2), data ingestion, transformation, and governance.
  • Familiar with cloud environments such as AWS, Azure, or IBM Cloud.
  • Familiar with AI technologies and tools with some hands-on experience, including AI Ops and Governance.
  • Experience in performance testing is a plus.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence—from machine learning to generative AI—to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM’s AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM’s hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments—a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

 

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

 

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

 

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business. 

 

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.


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