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Test Lead / Architect

AT IBM
IBM

Test Lead / Architect

Manila, Philippines

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

Designs and implements test solutions for enterprise-level applications, integrating test automation technologies to maximize test coverage and efficiency. This role collaborates with business analysts, product owners, solution architects, and project managers to tailor test solutions to specific project needs. The architect specializes in various testing approaches, tools, and methodologies, including model-based testing, BDD, TDD, test optimization, environment management, test data management, virtualization, cloud, and AI-driven test automation. They provide technical leadership for all test activities, from test requirements to test design and execution, and assist Test Managers with overall test planning. The role focuses on enhancing test quality, productivity, and cycle time improvements through technology-driven test automation, with a strong emphasis on high ROI. The Application Architect with Quality Engineering skills is responsible for designing and implementing test solutions that integrate with Agile and DevOps-based development approaches, ensuring high levels of automation and seamless collaboration with development teams. They also contribute to performance optimization and tuning of the application infrastructure, ensuring optimal system performance and availability.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

Tooling and Technology Decisions

  • Evaluate, recommend, and implement appropriate testing tools, frameworks.

Mentorship and Guidance

  • Mentor QA team members, establish best practices, code reviews, and foster a culture of quality engineering.

Quality Metrics and Reporting

  • Define and track KPIs like test coverage, defect leakage, automation ROI, and provide insights to stakeholders.

Innovation and Continuous Improvement

  • Stay updated with industry trends, drive PoCs, and adopt emerging technologies like GenAI

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

For additional information about location requirements, please discuss with the recruiter following submission of your application.

Client-provided location(s): Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines
Job ID: IBM-42494
Employment Type: Other

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