QA Engineer

Introduction
IBM Infrastructure is a catalyst that makes the world work better because our clients demand it. Heterogeneous environments the explosion of data digital automation and cybersecurity threats require hybrid cloud infrastructure that only IBM can provide.
Your ability to be creative a forward-thinker and to focus on innovation that matters is all support by our growth minded culture as we continue to drive career development across our teams. Collaboration is key to IBM Infrastructure success as we bring together different business units and teams that balance their priorities in a way that best serves our client’s needs.

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
As a QA Automation Engineer You need to work on the Automation testing along with that you will collaborate with the development and test teams to ensure the quality usability and serviceability of IBM’s Software Defined Storage portfolio and IBM Cloud Storage services.
You will be owning and driving product functionality as SME and represent it in global product team. In the role of QA Automation Engineer you would be responsible for –
Work as a Test and Automation Engineer to ensure continuous delivery of the product to the stakeholders.

• Create/Update the test environment and code execute Manual and automated test scenarios and environments.
• Work with the development and system tests team to ensure product quality usability and serviceability.
• Experience in continuous delivery and test practices
• Engineer is required to fully verify functions/components for a product/system to ensure it operates properly and meets the design specifications.
• Work as a System Test and Automation Engineer to ensure continuous delivery of the product to the stakeholders.
• Act as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the IBM Software Defined Storage product.

You will work with the senior technical leaders and manager in effectively managing the deliverables through his technical skills and prior experience.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• 2+ years of industry experience in Web Frontend or Frontend heavy Fullstack software development distributed systems microservices architecture
• Product development experience in Public Cloud and experience of customize deployment on Public Clouds using Templates
• Proven knowledge of S/W development process & tools for product development/debugging using JavaScript TypeScript languages.
• GUI development using Functional React components (preferably) Reactjs or Angular Bootstrap CSS Asynchronous programming and related frameworks for web application development
• Experience using React hooks Redux state management in React and working with REST APIs JSON/XML/Protobuf data formats
• Product development/usage experience on Linux/Windows operating systems for user level programming and test.
• Good understanding of User Experience design and working with UX team on product GUI design and development based on requirements
• Good understanding of Block Storage Object Storage Storage NVME iSCSI/SCSI protocols Cloud Storage
• Proven Storage domain knowledge with hands-on experience on GUI development for storage workflows.
• Experience in developing queries and mutations in GraphQL
• Experience working with Nodejs Express server as backend for frontend
• Good problem-solving skills for complex issues with interdependencies across multiple modules
• Knowledge and experience in containerization using Docker Kubernetes and OCP
• Hands-on experience and knowledge of data structures and algorithms
• Ability to crisply communicate with stake holders for resolving issues.
• Knowledge and hand-on usage of code and defect management tools.
• Ability to meticulously plan and detail test executions and identifying dependencies.
• Good written/verbal communication skills to report program status crisply and accurately.
• Experience working with Global teams.
• Good technical leadership skills to mentor new team members.
• Experience in Systems/Storage domains and features like Storage Replication Snapshot Networking technologies

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Proven communication skills along with excellent interpersonal skills
• Experience working on Test Eng / Agile Methodology
• Experience working with OpenShift and/or Kubernetes.
• Experience in GitHub Pull Request development workflow.
• Experience with at least one major cloud provider (IBM AWS Google Azure)
• Experience with Agile Software Development Experience
• Familiarity with storage concept.