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
In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centers (Delivery Centers), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.
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Your role and responsibilities
Job Description:As a Quality Engineer specializing in test automation, you will play a critical role in designing, developing, and maintaining robust automation solutions that enhance our testing efficiency, coverage, and maintainability. Your primary responsibility will be to ensure the quality, reliability, and scalability of our test automation efforts across various projects and technologies.Key Responsibilities:
- Leadership and Mentoring:
- Lead and mentor a team of automation engineers, fostering a collaborative and high-performing environment.
- Provide guidance, coaching, and support to help team members grow professionally and technically.
- Facilitate knowledge sharing, training, and workshops to enhance the team's skills and capabilities.
- Test Automation Framework Development and Maintenance:
- Design, develop, and maintain reusable, maintainable, and scalable automation frameworks using best practices (e.g., page object models, data-driven, keyword-driven, or hybrid approaches).
- Select, configure, and integrate appropriate automation tools and technologies (e.g., Selenium, Appium, Cucumber, TestNG, or custom frameworks) based on project requirements.
- Continuously improve and refactor automation frameworks to enhance maintainability, reusability, and performance.
- Automation Strategy and Planning:
- Define and implement comprehensive test automation strategies aligned with project goals, timelines, and resources.
- Develop and maintain detailed automation test plans, considering various testing types (functional, non-functional, integration, performance, security, etc.).
- Collaborate with stakeholders to establish automation scope, approach, and resource requirements for each project.
- Cross-functional Collaboration:
- Work closely with developers, product owners, QA engineers, and other stakeholders to ensure alignment on requirements, design, and automation objectives.
- Facilitate regular communication, status updates, and risk discussions with cross-functional teams.
- Technical Expertise and Innovation:
- Stay updated with the latest automation trends, tools, and best practices.
- Identify opportunities for process improvements, tool enhancements, and innovative automation approaches.
- Contribute to the development and refinement of our QA automation strategy, roadmap, and standards.
- Project Delivery and Accountability:
- Ensure timely and high-quality delivery of automation activities within projects, adhering to agreed-upon timelines and quality standards.
- Monitor automation progress, identify potential risks, and proactively address issues to prevent delays.
- Continuous Learning and Growth:
- Encourage a culture of continuous learning and improvement within the automation team.
- Represent the automation team in knowledge-sharing sessions, workshops, and industry events.
- Performance and Scalability:
- Optimize automation scripts and frameworks for performance, scalability, and parallel execution to support large-scale and high-frequency testing.
- Implement load and performance testing strategies to evaluate system behavior under heavy loads and ensure system reliability.
Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.
- 7+ years of experience in quality engineering, with a strong focus on test automation.
- Proven leadership and mentoring experience, preferably in an enterprise environment.
- Expertise in designing, developing, and maintaining automated test frameworks and tools.
- Thorough understanding of software development life cycle (SDLC) and quality assurance processes.
- In-depth knowledge of testing methodologies, tools, and best practices.
- Strong proficiency in programming languages such as Java, Python, C#, or JavaScript.
- Experience with Agile and Scrum methodologies, including daily stand-ups, sprint planning, and retrospectives.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI, or Bamboo).
- Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills.
- Strong attention to detail, with a customer-focused mindset.
- Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud) and containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT
IBM Consulting is IBM's consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients' businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.
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.
IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualifiedapplicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race,color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexualorientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability,neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is alsocommitted to compliance with all fair employment practices regardingcitizenship and immigration status.
OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS
Must have the ability to work in Canada without sponsorship.
This role will involve working with technology that is covered by Export Regulations sanctions. If you are a Foreign National from any of the following US sanctioned countries (Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, and the Crimea, Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson, and Zaporizhia regions of Ukraine) on a work permit, you are not eligible for employment in this position.