IBM

QA/Test Developer

Posted On

Jan. 14, 2025

Location

Bangalore, Karnataka

Experience Level

Professional

Job Type

Permanent

Apply By

Jan. 31, 2025

Job Description

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Your Role and Responsibilities
Test Strategy and Planning:

Develop and execute comprehensive test plans that cover functional, integration, regression, and non-functional testing to ensure software products meet the highest quality standards.
Define and implement quality assurance processes that align with project goals and ensure consistent delivery of high-quality software products.

Automation Integration:

Lead the design and implementation of automated testing solutions, integrating them into CI/CD pipelines to streamline the testing process and accelerate release cycles.
Ensure the continuous improvement of test automation frameworks and stay updated with the latest tools and technologies such as Selenium, Karate, Rest-Assured, and Cypress.
Identify key areas for automation, prioritizing high-impact features and regression-prone areas to maximize test coverage and efficiency.

Scripting and Custom Automation:

Utilize scripting languages like Python and Shell to create custom test scripts and automate repetitive tasks, improving the overall efficiency of testing operations.
Collaborate with DevOps to ensure smooth test execution in various environments, including Linux/Unix systems, and optimize the performance of test automation processes.

Mentorship and Leadership:

Mentor junior QA engineers, providing guidance on best practices in automation, testing methodologies, and tools.
Lead the team toward achieving Lean/Agile/Scrum goals, ensuring that testing processes are aligned with Agile methodologies.
Take initiative in driving the continuous improvement of QA processes, encouraging a culture of quality and accountability within the team.

Performance and Non-functional Testing:

Perform non-functional testing such as performance, load, and security testing, ensuring that the software meets scalability and reliability requirements under different conditions.
Identify areas for performance improvement and collaborate with development teams to address potential scalability issues.

Cloud and Containerization Expertise:

Provide insights on cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS, Azure Cloud) to ensure that the testing environment mimics production as closely as possible.
Leverage experience with containerization tools like Docker and Kubernetes to create and manage test environments for cloud-based applications.

Continuous Learning and Adaptability:

Stay up to date with the latest industry trends, testing tools, and best practices to continually improve testing processes.
Take on multiple roles as needed, adapting to the evolving needs of the team, and continuously enhancing technical skills in areas such as scripting and automation tools.

Communication and Reporting:

Effectively communicate test results, progress, and potential risks to stakeholders through reports and presentations.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product managers and DevOps, to ensure alignment and timely delivery of high-quality products.

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Required Technical and Professional Expertise
8-12 years of professional experience in test automation and software quality

Quality Assurance:

Design and execute comprehensive test plans to ensure software products meet the highest quality standards and functional requirements..
Collaborate with development teams to implement test-driven development (TDD) frameworks, ensuring rigorous quality standards throughout the software development lifecycle.
Work closely with developers to proactively detect and resolve performance bottlenecks, inefficiencies, and vulnerabilities, ensuring optimal functionality and robustness of software systems.

Automation Integration:

Implement and integrate automated testing solutions into Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, optimizing testing efficiency and speed.
Familiarity with operating systems like Linux/Unix.
Experience in scripting languages such as Python and Shell is a plus.
Proficiency in test automation frameworks such as Selenium, Karate, Rest-Assured, and Cypress.

Technical Skills:

Strong proficiency in Java, with a deep understanding of advanced concepts like concurrency, class loading, and security.
Experience working with SQL/NoSQL databases.
Basic understanding of operating systems such as Linux/Unix.

Problem-Solving & Learning Orientation:

Proven problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
Ability to analyze complex issues and provide effective solutions.
Willingness to learn new skills and adapt to multiple roles as required by the team.

Soft Skills:

Strong communication and presentation skills.
Effective time-management with the ability to prioritize competing demands.
Leadership capabilities, including mentoring team members and guiding them toward Lean/Agile/Scrum goals.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

Experience with containerization tools like Docker and Kubernetes.
Hands-on experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure Cloud.
Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodologies.

About Business Unit

IBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence—from machine learning to generative AI—to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM’s AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM’s hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments—a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business.

Your Life @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

About IBM

IBM's greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

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Being You @ IBM

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