Automation Test 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

• Design develop and execute automated and manual test cases based on requirements and user stories.
• Maintain and enhance automated and manual test suites to stay current with new product features.
• Design and Create integration test scenarios for mutliple products/modules
• Create automation best practices.
• Troubleshoot and isolate problems encountered during testing triage and root cause analysis and feedback to the Development team.
• Simulate real-world deployments of the products and reproduce customer issues.
• Identify automation opportunities in different workflow.
• Define and prepare test data and test environments to support testing.
• Ensure that our software components are developed and thoroughly tested following best practices and are ready for integration into IBM’s best-of-breed solutions that help organizations improve their business outcomes in the global marketplace.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise
Experience: 3-6 years of automation testing

• 3 – 6 years of relevant industry experience.
• Hands on experience in authoring and executing the manual and automated test scenarios/testcases.
• Experience to work in enterprise level web and windows based application.
• Automation testing experience at least 2 years.
• Experience to set up maintain and operate test automation frameworks.
• Experience with API testing API automation Shell scripting and automation frameworks.
• Experience on test automation development using Java.
• Experience with tools such as Selenium Jira Git Jenkins.
• Create the respective test automation scenarios for manual tests; optimize and maintain history test scripts.
• Experience with all testing types: black box white box regression System integration.
• Ability to understand and clearly document complex multi-faceted technical issues.
• Communicate Code Quality metrics to all stakeholders work with developers to track and fix defects.
• Experience of working in Agile Scrum DevOps methodologies with global teams.
• Working knowledge of Container Tech: Kubernetes Docker Red Hat OpenShift.
• Working knowledge of application servers ( Liberty Tomcat) database servers (Oracle DB2).
• Understanding of web applications Java or other object-oriented programming language.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Self-starter quick learner who enjoys working in a challenging fast paced environment.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Experience on unit testing frameworks like Junit/TestNG.
• Complete understanding of manual testing aspects.