Quality Engineer

Introduction

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IBM Planning Analytics® is an enterprise financial planning software platform used by a significant number of Global 500 companies. IBM Planning Analytics® provides a real-time approach to consolidating, viewing, and editing enormous volumes of multidimensional data. At the heart of the IBM Planning Analytics solution is TM1® Server, a patented, 64-bit, in-memory functional database server that can perform real-time complex calculations and aggregations over massive data spaces while allowing concurrent data editing.

Your role and responsibilities

Software development is critical to the success of IBM and our clients worldwide. At IBM, you will use the latest software development tools, techniques and approaches and work with leading minds in the industry to build solutions you can be proud of.

This job will give you the opportunity to enhance the Data & AI products and solutions at IBM. We are looking for seasoned professionals who are passionate about building high quality software tests, test infrastructure to help TM1 development achieve the highest quality possible.

As a QA Engineer, you will be responsible for writing automated tests to meet the end-to-end quality standards for the product features. The job duties and responsibilities are as follows:

- Understand the test plans laid down for a feature/product
- Write and automate tests that cover the scenarios stated in the test plan
- Carry out functional, regression and performance tests periodically for minor, major and patch releases.
- Raise defects for issues found, and work with development team to narrow down the problem, and verify fixes
Review documentation to ensure it matches the implementation.
Comply with coding practices and quality standards laid down for the product
Communicate effectively with peers and cross-teams to clarify technical details, share ideas, and convey progress
Demo the implementation and incorporate feedback from all stakeholders.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Master's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

3+ Years of Experience
Theoretical or practical knowledge in functional, regression, and performance testing
Theoretical or practical knowledge in test automation
Hands-on experience with REST API testing, Shell scripting, HTTP, JavaScript
Hands-on experience with building small programs or applications
Strong oral and written communication, and presentation skills
Clear, logical, analytical and methodical approach to problem-solving

Preferred technical and professional experience

Awareness of Containerization, Kubernetes, Openshift
Awareness of front-end and back-end technologies such as TM1, Go

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

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