QA/Automation Engineer

Job description

Introduction
At IBM, work is more than a job - it's a calling: To build. To design. To code. To consult. To think along with clients and sell. To make markets. To invent. To collaborate. Not just to do something better, but to attempt things you've never thought possible. Are you ready to lead in this new era of technology and solve some of the world's most challenging problems? If so, lets talk.

Your Role and Responsibilities

We are looking for skilled QA/Automation Engineer to join our IBM AIOps Insights Team, based in Dublin.
Our mission is to help our clients innovate faster, reduce operational cost and transform IT operations (ITOps) across a changing landscape with an AIOps platform that delivers visibility into performance data and dependencies across environments.
As a QA/Automation Engineer in AIOps Insights, you'll play a pivotal role in ensuring the quality and reliability of our products. Your work will directly contribute to the success of our mission and the satisfaction of our customers. 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.

Your Role and Responsibilities

·  Work across development teams to deliver a high quality product
·  Developing automation to simply build, deployment and test activities
·  Creating and encouraging a culture of quality on the team and within the greater organization
·  Estimating, prioritizing, planning and coordinating QA efforts
·  Establishing good practices for improving product quality
·  Implementing the automatic provisioning of infrastructure for test execution environments
·  Performing code/design reviews/inspections
·  Analyzing defects and performing root cause analysis

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

·  Differentiator is certification “ISTQB - Certified Tester Foundation Level (CTFL)” or similar
·  Experience in a QA automation position
·  Experience with major programming languages like Java, JavaScript, Go, Python
·  Understanding of version control systems ( Git, etc.), including branching and merging strategies
·  Experience with software build tools and continuous integration tools (Jenkins, Travis)
·  Experience using automation testing frameworks (Selenium, Cucumber BDD)
·  Strong technical communication skills
·  Able and eager to learn new languages, frameworks and tools
·  Fluent in written and spoken English

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

·  Experience with Linux operating systems and comfortable using the command line interface
·  Experience with cloud technologies such as OpenShift, Kubernetes and Containers
·  Experience working in an agile environment