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Your role and responsibilities

We are looking for a highly motivated Software Development Engineer in Test who is passionate about learning new things, and designing better ways to identify potential weak spots, inefficiencies, and issues within software systems. The ideal candidate is well-versed in test automation, agile software development, and software testing methodologies. This position will work closely with development teams and other test engineers in the implementation and delivery of software products that meet rigorous quality standards, budgets, and timelines.

If you are a talented professional who seeks responsibility, thrives when empowered, and understands the importance of personal accountability, then we would like to talk with you. As a member of the IBM Cognos Analytics Software Quality Engineering team, you will have responsibilities by close-teaming with other IT teams to deliver environments in an agile, consistent, repeatable and rapid manner.

You will play a central role by collaborating with development teams supporting test driven development framework. Scope will include Test Plan Development, Test Case Execution, Automation Testing, Data Creation, API Validation and incorporating test automation in the self-service and innovative pipeline infrastructure.

Required education
None
Preferred education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise

Responsibilities:

·      Design, extend and enhance functional, regression, integration and automated test suites.

·      Work closely with development teams to improve the software quality by identifying potential weak spots, inefficiencies, and issues within our software.

·      Help define software requirements from the perspective of test and quality.

·      Identify use cases within user stories, and write, implement, and execute test cases accordingly.

·      Monitor and report automated test execution results throughout the software release cycle.

Preferred technical and professional experience

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

·      Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with ability to effectively articulate technical challenges and devise solutions

·      3+ years of experience in automated quality engineering / software development / test automation.

·      Proficiency in JavaScript

·      Proficiency in UI automation with Selenium

·      Proficiency in using automated API testing tools.

·      Proficiency with shell/bash scripting and Linux/Unix command-line interface

·      Proficiency in scripting on Microsoft Visual Studio Code Editor, etc.

·      Experience or willingness to learn testing of cloud-native applications

·      Understanding of agile development, test management, continuous integration, continuous development environment (CICD) with tools such as: GitHub, Jira, Jenkins etc.

·      Other Tools: SSH clients, container technologies (ie: Docker, Podman).

·      Ability to work independently in a large matrix organization.

·      Troubleshoot and solve customer issues on production deployments.

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.

 

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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.

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