Software Tester

Introduction
Provides technical direction and advises management on new and proposed software projects. Develops strategies and long-term plans for researching new or projected operating systems and complete software architecture and provides recommendations.
Conceptualizes researches analyzes and proposes new software architecture designs and evaluates and recommends enhancements to existing software architecture. Designs researches and develops components of software architecture. Coordinates and/or provides technical direction on integration of new complex technologies with overall software architecture.

Your Role and Responsibilities
Do you have a passion for learning and applying modern engineering and testing practices? Are you a technically curious QA engineer? We are looking for passionate QA engineers to work on challenging workflows creating test scenarios test samples and preforming tests related to IBM’s employee choice program. We’re most interested in people who have a strong background in computer science who can demonstrate they’re passionate about their work like to share their success and want to keep learning. If you want to be a part of a team responsible for delighting hundreds of thousands of IBMers read on.

Your Role and Responsibilities

• Design develop and execute test cases-based requirements and user stories.
• Maintain and enhance automated and manual test suites to stay current with new product features.
• Troubleshoot and isolate problems encountered during testing triage and root cause analysis and feedback to the Development team.
• 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.
• Ability to create & execute production like test scenarios.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies i.e. sprint planning estimation etc.
• Work with test management tools and defect management tools.
• Participate in software development lifecycle specifically test design execution and debugging required to achieve successful implementation of integrated solutions within the product portfolio.
• Perform web API UI functional regression smoke exploratory and end to end testing within an Agile delivery model.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• 2+ years of relevant industry experience.
• Experience in system testing including test planning assessments test development and maintenance reporting defect triage.
• Hands on experience in authoring and executing the test scenarios/testcases manually.
• Hands on experience in Automation testing frameworks.
• Experience with all testing types: black box white box regression integration.
• Experience of working in Agile Scrum DevOps methodologies with global teams.
• Experience in standard SDLC methodologies like Waterfall Agile and Scrum.
• Experience on different technologies (JAVA REST API MATLAB C/C++ Linux)
• Experience in test management and defect logging tool.
• Complete understanding of manual testing aspects.
• Excellent analytical and communication skills.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Hands on experience in Model based systems Engineering Simulation tools like Maxima Simulink.
• Knowledge and experience in UFT Framework
• Good communication skills.