Test Engineer (TS/SCI CI POLY)

Introduction
A career in IBM Consulting is rooted by long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe.
You’ll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio; including Software and Red Hat.
Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success in IBM Consulting. In your role you’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm investigate ideas outside of your role and come up with creative solutions resulting in ground breaking impact for a wide network of clients. Our culture of evolution and empathy centers on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.

Your Role and Responsibilities
The responsibilities of this role are as follows:

• Develop and execute test plans and test cases for software applications cloud infrastructure and micro services
• Apply understanding of agile development and experience with DevSecOps and CI/CD practices to support testing quality assurance security accreditation and deployment
• Develop comprehensive test documentation for the system processes and procedures and contract deliverables
• Actively participate in the execution of systems engineering processes to include requirements development architecture development testing and validation and deployment
• Design and implement automated test scripts
• Support security accreditation activities
• Support user acceptance testing and enterprise test activities
• Clearly communicate and provide effective recommendations for process improvements
• Stay abreast of industry trends emerging technologies and best practices and apply to project needs

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Deep understanding of systems engineering processes and lifecycle
• Experience working on a software development program providing customer-facing services
• Expertise in developing test requirements test cases and executing all types of software testing
• Familiarity with DevSecOps tools and CI/CD tools T est automation and agile testing processes and tools
• Active TS/SCI with CI Poly required

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Experience in software testing preferably testing in the context of agile software development using a continuous integration/continuous deployment pipeline
• Familiarity with Test Driven Development (TDD)
• Hands-on experience configuring and using automated test tools
• Familiarity with configuration management process and deficiency reporting in the context of software testing