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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.

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

Software Development Manager – QA Performance & Release Leadership 

  • Are you passionate about driving high-performance standards in enterprise software? We’re looking for a Software Development Manager with deep expertise in Quality Assurance for Performance and Stress Testing to lead a specialized team focused on ensuring the scalability, reliability, and resilience of our Business Automation products.

    In this role, you will lead three strategic teams:

    • Performance QA Engineering

    • Project & Release Management

    • Security Engineering

Your leadership will be key in delivering secure, high-performing solutions across a diverse portfolio, while fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead and mentor distributed, international teams with a strong focus on Performance QA Engineering.

  • Drive the strategy and execution of performance and stress testing initiatives, ensuring systems meet scalability and reliability goals.
    Define and drive the end-to-end PQA strategy across multiple product teams within CP4BA, focusing on automation, release quality and continuous improvement. Own and continuously improve a robust PQA strategy framework aligned with business goals and our technology roadmap.

  • Bring innovation and increased productivity into performance quality practices, strive to ensure high performance standards. Be a key voice in PQA-related decision-making.

  • Collaborate with senior leadership, product management, architects to define roadmaps aligned with business growth and technical innovation.

  • People and performance management to drive high performance culture that is integral to IBM and its large customer base to deliver the best quality offerings

  • Act as a champion of company values by promoting and integrating them into daily operations, employee engagement, and organizational initiatives.

  • Develop key technical talent that drives innovation 

  • Inspire the team, promote best practices, foster constructive collaboration with synergic efforts and efficient, high quality results. 

  • Set clear vision and goals, manage dependencies, remove road blocks, guide and succeed as a team. 

  • Advocate for your teams by increasing visibility, celebrating achievements, providing opportunities for career growth

  • Promote agile development practices and ensure timely, secure, and high-quality releases.

  • Build strong cross-functional relationships through clear communication and collaboration.

 

 

Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Master's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise

 

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience

 

  • Proven experience managing software engineering or QA teams, ideally in a distributed and international setup.

  • Over 10+ years of experience 

  • Extensive hands-on experience in performance testing, including load, stress, and scalability testing.

  • Familiarity with performance testing tools (e.g., JMeter, Gatling, LoadRunner, or similar).

  • Solid understanding of performance optimization techniques and basic security principles.

  • Deep understanding of software architecture, design patterns, automation concepts

  • Strong background in agile methodologies and release management.

  • Demonstrated leadership in managing complex portfolios and cross-functional initiatives.

  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

  • Experience mentoring and coaching team members for career growth.

  • Ability to work effectively with various stakeholders, including product managers, architects, designers, support, and other engineering teams. 

Preferred technical and professional experience

  • Prior experience in Business Automation or enterprise software environments.

  • Familiarity with DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines.

  • Exposure to cloud-native architectures and modern development stacks.

  • Experience working with remote teams across multiple time zones.

  • Proficiency with tools like Jira for agile project tracking.

  • Passion for building inclusive, high-performing teams and fostering innovation.

  • Interest in long-term career growth within a technical leadership role.

 

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 500 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, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

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