Your Role and Responsibilities

Application programming interfaces (API) are the digital glue that links services, applications, sensors and mobile devices to create compelling customer experiences and help businesses tap into new market opportunities. They allow you to bring new digital services to market, open revenue channels and exceed customer expectations. The IBM API Connect is an API management solution that addresses critical aspects of the API lifecycle for both on-premises and cloud environments providing the capability to create, run, manage and secure APIs and microservices.
Our team is part of the development group that develops, deploys, and operates the cloud, dedicated and local form factors of the product. In addition we are involved in all the customer support and efforts to ensure that our customers are satisfied and successful.
The QA engineer will be the responsible to ensure the quality of both new features being added to the product and existing functionality. This will be done via manual verification and the creation and maintenance of automation to validate the features. The QA engineer will need to work closely with the dev teams to understand the new features and to provide input into testing performed by these teams.

As a QA Engineer, the following are the responsibilities:

• Validate new features being delivered in the product.
• Work on creating automation for the features being tested, and implement in a CI/CD pipeline.
• Debug customer issues, reproducing in a lab if required.
• Work with core development to improve the product.
• Provide serviceability improvements on the product.

Introduction

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Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Knowledge of testing methodologies and approaches, utilizing agile development methodologies, with at least 2 years working in a QA/automation environment.
• Scripting and development skills: Shell scripting, Python.
• Familiarity with Linux and various container technologies: Docker, Kubernetes.
• Design, build, deploy, and maintain effective CI/CD pipelines for running automation jobs, utilizing Jenkins or other CI/CD tooling.

Preferred Technical and Professional Experience

Familiarity with cloud-based providers: SoftLayer, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, IBM, etc.

Required Education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred Education

Master's Degree

About Business Unit

IBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence—from machine learning to generative AI—to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM’s AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM’s hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments—a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business.

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Other Relevant Job Details

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Being You @ IBM

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Country/Region

Ireland

State / Province

Dublin

City / Township / Village

Mulhuddart

IBM Business Group

Software

Primary job category

Software Development & Support

Secondary Job Category

Software Engineer

Role ( Job Role )

QA/Test Developer

Employment Type

Full-Time

Contract type

Regular

Early Professional Track

Not Applicable - Professional Hire

Position Type

Professional

Travel Required

Some travel may be required based on business demand

Company

(1679) Software Labs Campus Unlimited Company

Is this role a commissionable/sales incentive based position?

No

ERBP

Yes

Company Label

IBM