Software Qa Engineer

As a Software QA Engineer, you have the opportunity to accelerate the delivery and improve the quality of the IBM Cloud and other enterprise Object Storage deployments.  You will be part of a test team that is working on problems in a number of areas, including distributed systems, Exabyte-scale storage, Linux OS distribution and network protocols.

IBM's breadth of technology offers an amazing range of opportunities for you to make a big impact on the quality of storage used in the IBM Cloud and in some of the largest storage installations in the world.

The successful candidate will be a highly analytical, collaborative engineer who is capable of exercising judgment in selecting the appropriate test scenarios and test methodologies, interpreting and report system behavior against customer expectations and communicating anomalous observations to the development teams.

The Position: The Details

Analyze and decompose a complicated software system with changing hardware platforms and design the correct strategy to test this system.
Develop automated functional and system level tests using Python, participate in peer code reviews
Participate in feature development teams and communicate potential system impacting risks, requirement gaps and test scenarios.
Ensure comprehensive test coverage by participating in escaped defect analysis to identify deficiencies and improvements in the automated tests.
Create and manage tasks for newly introduced features and document test strategies and plans.
Communicate to team members on changes of functional system feature interactions and their system performance impacts.
Identify, recommend and implement automated test improvements for new and existing test scenarios.