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
- Collaborative Development: Work closely with OpenJDK development teams to design and implement functional and non-functional tests.
- Test Planning and Execution: Develop comprehensive test plans and execute test cases to ensure OpenJDK products meet quality standards and requirements.
- Automation Integration: Implement and integrate test automation into Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines to streamline testing processes and enhance efficiency.
- Excellent Problem-Solving Skills: Demonstrated experience in problem-solving with the ability to tackle complex issues and find effective solutions.
- Quality Assurance: Deliver quality functions for development teams supporting test-driven development frameworks and ensuring rigorous quality standards are met throughout the software development lifecycle.
Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
- Experience and working knowledge of different test methodologies - from unit tests to integration to functional to performance to regression.
- Understand the scope of testing e.g. what makes a good and bad test. Be able to read a set of existing tests and spot holes in coverage or other blind spots that a test suite has. Relate test cases to project requirements.
- Worked with standard development tools such as git CI/CD code coverage etc - and understand what these tools are for and why they are a necessary part of testing.
- Experience writing tests from scratch in at least one programming language (Java or Go especially useful). Implement these tests as part of an existing tooling pipeline.
Preferred technical and professional experience
- Operate in a Linux / Unix environment including being comfortable using the command line interface.
- Familiarity with cloud and container technologies including Docker Podman Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift.