QA/Performance Engineer Developer

Job description

Introduction
A career in IBM Software means you'll be part of a team that transforms our customers challenges into solutions.

Seeking new possibilities and always staying curious, we are a team dedicated to creating the world's leading AI-powered, cloud-native software solutions for our customers. Our renowned legacy creates endless global opportunities for our IBMers, so the door is always open for those who want to grow their career.

We are seeking a skilled back-end developer to join our IBM Software team. As part of our team, you will be responsible for developing and maintaining high-quality software products, working with a variety of technologies and programming languages.

Your Role and Responsibilities

·  Develop automated test scenarios and environments, including automating the provisioning of test clusters for performance testing, to improve problem determination and performance data analysis.
·  Collect and analyze performance results, including resource consumption measurements, to ensure application and system functionality, stability, and scalability with resource efficiency.
·  Identify and build performance workloads based on performance test plan.
·  Perform root cause analysis to identify areas for improvement or optimization within products and its dependent areas.
·  Lead the effort to deliver performance and scalability benchmark reports.
·  Manage IBM Cloud Pak for Data Stack, tune cluster environments, work with Kubernetes, OpenShift and other open-source technology and tools in various clouds environment.
·  Troubleshoot performance issues and propose data driven optimizations.
·  Manage IBM Cloud Pak for Data and Watsonx stack, tune cluster environments, work with Kubernetes, OpenShift and other open-source technology and tools in various cloud environment such as IBM cloud, AWS, Azure, and IBM internal cloud.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

·  Overall 5 years of Software/Performance Testing experience.
·  Excellent oral and written communication, teamwork, and debugging skills.
·  Strong experience with scripting language (e.g., Python, Perl, shell script, etc), concept and usage of DBMS systems
·  Experience with UNIX, Linux, or Windows
·  At least 2 years of experience with test script development including but not limited to JMeter or Selenium.
·  At least 1 year experience with OpenShift Console and monitoring.
·  Solid working knowledge in automation development.
·  Expertise in using Github and Jenkins and building CI/CD pipelines.
·  Very quick learner of technology, be able to multi-task, and thrive in complex situation.
·  More importantly, someone who loves to work with systems and software, wants to understand the internals and makes systems run ultra-fast at lowest cost!

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

·  Experience with any of the following would be a strong asset but not required.
·  Computer architecture, storage sub-system and virtualization (e.g., Docker, Linux Containers, KVM, Xen, VMware)
·  Various cloud env such as AWS, Azure or IBM Cloud.
·  RedHat OpenShift, Jupyter notebooks, Kubernetes systems, Hadoop and related projects.