Software Development – Test Engineer

Job description

Introduction
The IBM Storage Software team is looking for a Software Quality Engineer to join us in Bangalore, India. In this role, you will be working on the OpenShift Data Foundation offering. You'll be required to interpret test requirements for customer use cases and develop innovative automated solutions for testing real-world customer workflows in test environments. As a Software Quality Engineer, you will need to have experience with large and complex systems and be able to think creatively, learn new things, and adapt to a constantly changing environment.

Your Role and Responsibilities
Primary job responsibilities
·  Develop resiliency, and reliability tests on OpenShift Data Foundation
·  Clearly document new bugs and advocate for their resolution with developers and communicate their impact on customers and their businesses
·  Deliver clear status for testing areas in a timely manner
·  Design and Develop a framework for automated testing of the RedHat OpenShift Data Foundation and analyze the failures and fix the framework issues.
·  Constantly learn new things and maintain an overview of current technologies
·  Build or enhance tools after gaining support from stakeholders in quality engineering and development
·  Participate in standard software development, e.g., writing code, tests, documentation, giving demos, and contributing to team meetings
·  Participate in peer code review to improve the framework code quality.
·  Provide timely status of automated testing efforts and quality statistics to the engineering team.
·  Plan and implement test Automation jobs and pipelines using continuous integration (CI)

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

·  3+/5+ years of experience working in quality assurance or software development
·  Experience with programming languages such as Python:
·  Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code
·  [An Advantage] Expertise with the Pytest framework
·  Strong unit test and debugging skills
·  [An advantage] Experience with Linux operating system
·  Good familiarity with basic and advanced terminal commands
·  Expertise with various local File systems (such as XFS and EXT) and remote file systems (such as NFS and CephFS)
·  Troubleshooting and debugging skills
·  Expertise with performing deep investigation of complex CI and produce issues and bugs
·  Ability to improve logging around potential CI and product issues
·  Experience with Jenkins and Github
·  Passion for technology
·  Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

·  Experience with storage technologies, cloud, and Kubernetes
·  Experience with open source
·  Knowledge of agile, scrum, and continuous integration (CI)