Introduction
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Your Role and Responsibilities
As a senior test engineer, you would apply your deep expertise in desigining, creating and executing detail test plans and test cases for IBM storage products.
As a senior engineer, you would have to play role of Scrum master and work with across the worldwide teams.

As a senior test engineer, you would:
Help design the overall project architecture and test plan
Design the test cases
Design the Automation plan
Develop good relationships with extended teams across geographies
Play role of scrum master and drive test execution

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

8 - 14 years of industry experience in Filesystems, Storage systems Software and Virtualization/Containerization.
Proven knowledge of S/W development process & tools for product development/debug using Python language, Debugging, Scripting technologies and ROBOT & CI/CD framework is an added advantage.
Experience with Test Automation frameworks.
Experience with System level testing and large-scale customer environment testing (CET)
Well familiar with different Operating Systems (Linux , AIX ,Windows).
Deep understanding of File and object storage protocols, Container technologies(OpenShift Platform), Filesystems, Storage systems, Kubernetes etc.
Experience in Systems/Storage domains, Storage controllers and features like High availability, DR, Replication, Snapshot technologies.
Product development/usage experience on Linux/Windows operating systems and user level programming and test. Basic User level Linux, and administration is required to debug any day-to-day issues.
Experience working on collaborative environments that use Agile methodologies.
Perform Test case creation and test case reviews. Develop and perform test verification and automation
Enterprise-level container-based systems (Docker, OpenShift, Kubernetes).
Good problem-solving skills for complex issues with interdependencies across multiple modules
Ability to crisply communicate across geographies and all stake holders (clients and level 3 support teams) for resolving field issues. Good expertise of working with Global teams
Knowledge and hand-on usage of code and defect management tools
Ability to meticulously plan and detail test executions and identifying dependencies, recycle any field issues back to improve Quality/Robustness of the SW Solution.
Good written/verbal communication skills to report program status crisply and accurately.
Good technical leadership skills to mentor and train new team members
Collaborate across scrum teams and conduct effective playbacks for
stakeholders.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

Experience working with File protocols (NFS/SMB) and Object protocols (S3 ) protocols.
Proven Storage domain knowledge with hands-on experience on storage software stack implementation and debugging on Linux operating systems
Familiarity with Python, C/C++, Go, Jenkins, Ansible, Git, PowerShell, RTC, RQM.
Idea on working model of Hybrid cloud environment (AWS/Azure/other cloud environment) is an added advantage.

About Business Unit
IBM Systems helps IT leaders think differently about their infrastructure. IBM servers and storage are no longer inanimate - they can understand, reason, and learn so our clients can innovate while avoiding IT issues. Our systems power the world’s most important industries and our clients are the architects of the future. Join us to help build our leading-edge technology portfolio designed for cognitive business and optimized for cloud computing.

This job requires you to be fully COVID-19 vaccinated prior to your start date and proof of vaccination status will be required before your start date. During the Onboarding process you will be asked to confirm your vaccination status, in case you are unable to get vaccinated for any reason, you can let us know at that stage. Please let us know if you are unable to be vaccinated due to medical or religious reasons. IBM will consider such requests on a case by case basis subject to submission of required proof by the candidate before a stipulated date.

Your Life @ IBM
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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.

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About IBM
IBM’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 Statement
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Being You @ IBM
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