Quality Engineer:Middleware

Introduction
In this role you’ll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centers (Delivery Centers) where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world.​ Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

A career in IBM Consulting is rooted by long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe.

You’ll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio; including Software and Red Hat.

Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success in IBM Consulting. In your role you’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm investigate ideas outside of your role and come up with creative solutions resulting in ground breaking impact for a wide network of clients. Our culture of evolution and empathy centers on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.

Your Role and Responsibilities

As a Quality Engineer at IBM your technical skills will directly impact the quality of the software we create and your recommendations and findings will help us make sure we’re delivering the best of the best. Come work in an agile environment where you will help each iteration reach the next level. Whether the testing is manual automated or cognitive you hold a key role in releasing the best deliverables to our clients and IBM alike. In your role you may be responsible for:

• Building automated tests using tools such as Selenium Protractor Katalon Cucumber etc.
• Create test data and test environments
• Write and execute test scripts under the direction of a senior tester and test lead and identify errors and validate successes for any software solution
• Identify understand and document all programming errors and operational characteristics that are inconsistent with stated requirements and design specification goals for the given program application or set of applications
• Do a deep-dive and present test results to clients and project teams clearly

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Tests applications and systems with focus on executing the test cases for applications developed using SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) WebServices and Middleware integration concepts.
• The Test Specialist develops the test scenarios and test cases executes test cases to verify that the system is built as per the requirements. Usually focuses on functional and non-functional testing of the applications at the component integration layers.
• Knowledge of the invocation of applications interfaces using integration protocols e.g. WebServices MQ JMS RMI etc.. manually or using tools would be a primary requirement for practitioners specializing in this specialty. This role also provides for test environment management services to the Client by understanding and analyzing environment needs inter-application dependencies building environment availability and refresh plans and managing day to day environment management tasks.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Preferred experience: knowledgeable on design creation and execution of functional and/or non-functional test cases; experience with tool (or similar tools) such as: Confluence JIRA Selenium Test Data Management Tools Performance Testing Tools
• Exposure to at least one cloud platform such as AWS Azure IBM or Google Cloud
• Familiarity with data quality analysis and testing skills in API ETL and SQL