QA/Test Developer

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
• Writing test plans for Spectrum Virtualize releases, liaising with the squad, the wider development team and the architecture team.
• Defining performance goals and measurements.
• Identifying performance bottlenecks and working with the team to remove them.
• Setting up performance test stands, including infrastructure tasks such as setting up test hosts, applications, and environments.
• Improve our continuous integration tools and integrate them with our performance measurements.
• Liaise with our performance engineers and developers in multiple IBM development labs.
• Expand and open up performance services to the wider development and test teams - performance as a service.
• Presenting performance data and results to development teams, leads and architects.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise
• Experience in Software testing
• Demonstrated experience in complex problem solving.
• Test automation experience/skills (scripting languages knowledge i.e Python, Perl, Bash)
• Demonstrated communication skills.
• Experience in analyzing and troubleshooting problems with systems

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
• Experience in storage products
• Experience as a Storage/Unix Administrator
• Experience in VMware or other Hardware virtualization tools.