Introduction

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Your Role and Responsibilities

The IBM Cloud Networking Tribe is looking for a talented, innovative and enthusiastic Test Automation engineer that will build the next generation IAAS to make our customers succeed. The IBM Cloud Networking Tribe has a global cloud presence that continues to grow and expand its reach. Our Network Services engineering team is responsible for delivering virtual network services with top-notch performance, first-rate security, fail-safe reliability and exceptional quality.

An IBM Cloud Test Automation engineer will be the key individual responsible for end to end feature testing. You will ensure the features delivered functionality and stability are meeting the highest quality standards, working to increase the knowledge and performance of the collective team. In addition, you will interface with senior architects and developers across several locations to ensure that the overall testing strategy is communicated and understood.

We are a global team, so communication skills (both verbal and written) are critical as well as flexibility to work with team members in other time zones.

Responsibilities:

• Develop thorough test plans and document the results and progress

• Develop in depths functionality and stability automatic tests that will map customer use cases

• Research the right set of workloads and benchmarks

• Develop automated test scenarios and environments for End2End automatic evaluation

• Collect test evidence measurements to ensure system functionality, stability and scalability

• Establish automatic measure to assess the accuracy

• Analyze results to find ways to improve the functionality coverage

• Analyze root causes and identify areas for improvement

• Collaborate with development teams to drive resolution for issues and improvement

• Generate test automation summary reports for stakeholder's review

How we'll help you grow:

You'll have access to all the technical and management training courses you need to become the expert you want to be.

You'll learn directly from expert developers in the field; our SME's love to mentor.

You will have the opportunity to work in many different areas to figure out what really excites you.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• 8-10 years of test automation development experience

• 2-4 years of experience in software testing in the workplace

• 2-4 years experience in Python/Go/Java programming

• Good English communication skills (written and oral) and be able to work independently and as part of a team.

• Knowledge of REST technologies is important advantage.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Cloud network concepts including software defined networking, virtual private cloud (VPC), network services such as load balancer, firewall, gateway as it fits in cloud network infrastructure

• Working knowledge of cloud network infrastructure technologies

• Linux network internals

• Linux Virtualization technologies relating to network virtualization

• Kubernetes, Docker

• Knowledge of bash, go lang, php, awk

• Working knowledge of Network tools is an important advantage.

• Knowledge of Windows and Linux operating systems

• Knowledge of Github and Jira is an advantage.

• Fast learner and a team player

About Business UnitIBM 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.

This job requires you to be fully COVID-19 vaccinated prior to your start date and proof of vaccination status will be required before your start date. During the Onboarding process you will be asked to confirm your vaccination status, in case you are unable to get vaccinated for any reason, you can let us know at that stage. Please let us know if you are unable to be vaccinated due to medical or religious reasons. IBM will consider such requests on a case by case basis subject to submission of required proof by the candidate before a stipulated date.

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