City : Toronto

Category : Other

Industry : Technology/Computer Services

Employer : IBM

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

The individual works in an agile, collaborative environment to recommend and develop testing standards and application of quality technologies. Lead the Testing Team in a distrusted agile team environment, encourages application development that builds testability in from the ground up. Ensures the quality of product is robust and failure scenarios are considered and refactored. Collaborates with cross-functional team members on use case creation, feature mapping and functional development, from before definition through final deployment. Performs exploratory testing using industry leading practices. Discovers defects/bugs and works with developers and POs to determine root cause and prevent similar issues. Drives adoption of test automation - system tests, integration tests, functional tests, e2e tests.

This role executes the tasks required to test an IBM product or a client system to ensure it functions according to specifications and client requirements and meets the business needs. Testing activities cover all aspects of the product/system including sanity, smoke, function/component, system, regression, and service.

Your roles & responsibilities:

• Demonstrate knowledge of the domain that they are responsible for testing (Payments Domain).
• Lead and manage a QA team of both functional and automation testers and deliver projects internally and for IBM’s clients
• Report status of QA delivery and project updates to senior leadership in a timely manner
• Develop Testing Frameworks and improvise test process and standards.
• Review and analyze Project/Product requirements, design specifications and be able to:
• Develop and document test cases/scenarios/use cases,
• Execute testing using tools as required and document test results.
• Support Maintenance of test harnesses and test artifacts.
• Investigate problems uncovered during testing, recreating those problems as appropriate and executing fix validations.
• Identify risks to the management and other teams as necessary and plans mitigation approach
• Participate in defect triage and troubleshoot issues during root cause analysis sessions.
• Participate in sprint ceremonies and support in planning of test team effort estimates.
• Take ownership of modules or components within a product and certify from QA.
• Collaborate with teams across various geographies.

This role can be performed from Toronto, ON and requires to be in office once a week.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Test Automation experience on cloud native technologies like microservices, APIs, container orchestrators etc.,
• Ability to PoC testing tools and automation frameworks.
• Must have experience testing variety of UI technologies based on React, Angular, Node JS etc.,
• Understanding of different API types like openAPI, public, private, partner, composite etc.,
• Hands-on testing knowledge on API protocols and architectures like REST, SOAP, RPC etc.,
• Must have experience in the following tools/areas:
• Test Management Tools such as HP ALM, Xray, Test Rail and Zephyr etc.,
• UI automation Tools and frameworks such as Selenium, TestNg, Junit, Cucumber etc.,
• API automation Tools such as Karate, Rest Assured, Postman, ReadyAPI, SwaggerHub, Soap UI etc.,
• Test Automation scripting and coding languages such as Java, Python, Groovy, JavaScript, Gherkin etc.,
• IBM Testing Tools and frameworks such as IBM Ignite, IBM RIT etc.,
• Relational databases and automating database technologies like Oracle SQL, NoSQl etc.,
• Agile SDLC methodologies and related process management tools such as Confluence & Jira.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Configuration and key management (E.g., Hashicorp consul, vault etc.,).
• Source code management & version control tools like Bitbucket, JFrog, Github, Git etc.,
• Cloud architectures and platform offerings such as AWS, MS Azure, Redhat OCP etc.,
• Experience in DevOps tools like Jenkins, Bamboo, Kubernetes etc.,
• Experience implementing software systems in Payments industry

About Business UnitIBM Consulting is IBM’s consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients’ businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

Your Life @ IBMIn a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

About IBMIBM's greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

Location StatementMust have the ability to work in Canada without sponsorship.

This role will involve working with technology that is covered by Export Regulations sanctions. If you are a Foreign National from any of the following US sanctioned countries (Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, and the Crimea, Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson, and Zaporizhia regions of Ukraine) on a work permit, you are not eligible for employment in this position.

Being You @ IBMIBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.