Introduction Do you have a passion for learning and applying modern software engineering practices? Are you excited to use these practices to deliver and manage mission critical services at scale? Are you a quick thinker? If so, please read on. Do you love to solve business problems with systems and integrations? Do you want every day to be a bit different and allow you to work with individuals across the spectrum of the organization? Then you just may be a fit for this critical software developer role. IBM is trailblazing new solutions and services that span key technologies within the IBM Infrastructure portfolio. We are looking for experienced candidates focused on back-end development. As a software engineer, the ideal candidate must bring a deep level of experience designing, implementing, and troubleshooting modern as-a-service and cloud capabilities. In addition, they are accountable as individuals and organizational leaders for delivering value by bringing relevant technology domain and implementation expertise in topics aligned with cloud platform integration, orchestration & provisioning, security and DevOps. As an IBM software developer, you are also expected to assist in the gathering of business and technical requirements, to implement specific technologies while demonstrating progress on a regular basis and to partner with technical leads or project managers to identify and overcome blockers.
Your Role and Responsibilities
As an Automation Engineer, you will play a crucial role in designing, developing, and implementing automated solutions to streamline our processes, increase efficiency, and optimize productivity. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify automation opportunities, design robust automation frameworks, and execute end-to-end automation testing. The ideal candidate should have a strong background in software development, proficiency in automation tools, and a passion for continuous improvement. Responsibilities include:
Write test plans and test cases for features
Develop and run automated test cases (function and end-to-end) Should be able to run continually or as needed
Build sufficient expertise in the IBM Cloud to enable proactive test automation coverage
Must be able to provide thorough and timely test execution to ensure timely deliverables
Develop centralized configuration code.
Identify and remediate any and all security vulnerabilities and issues.
Work with and improvements on our ansible code deployment and CICD pipelines
Continually improve test systems and processes with regard to automation and monitoring.
Required Technical and Professional Expertise
5-8 years of experience with test automation
Python automation development experience of unit/functional/integration/performance tests
Experience in developing/extending automation framework using Python
Test Automation tools experience for API, CLI
Automation of SOAP and REST APIs
Experience in tools such as Jira, GitHub, Zenhub, knowledge of Continuous Integration and Continuous Development
Excellent knowledge of product life cycle, tools, processes and operations planning.
Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
Knowledge of Bash scripting, Ansible, Terraform, PHP and/or Go Lang
IBM Cloud API knowledge
About Business Unit
IBM Systems helps IT leaders think differently about their infrastructure. IBM servers and storage are no longer inanimate - they can understand, reason, and learn so our clients can innovate while avoiding IT issues. Our systems power the world’s most important industries and our clients are the architects of the future. Join us to help build our leading-edge technology portfolio designed for cognitive business and optimized for cloud computing.
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.
Location Statement
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Being You @ IBM
IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.