QA/Test Engineer

IBM; Mulhuddart; On-site; EUR 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company is looking for a skilled QA/Automation Engineer to ensure the quality and reliability of products. Located in Leinster, this role involves working across teams to enhance product quality, developing automation for testing, and promoting best practices. Ideal candidates have 3-5 years in QA automation, experience with programming languages, and are fluent in English.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years’ experience in a QA automation position.
• Min. 2 years’ experience with a major programming language.
• Understanding of version control systems including branching and merging strategies.
• Able and eager to learn new languages, frameworks and tools.

Responsibilities

• Work across development teams to deliver a high quality product.
• Develop automation to streamline build, deployment and test activities.
• Establish good practices for improving product quality.
• Perform code/design reviews and analyze defects.

Skills

QA automation experience

Knowledge of programming languages (Java, JavaScript, Go, Python, C/C++)

Linux operating systems

Cloud technologies (Podman/Docker, OpenShift, Kubernetes)

Version control systems (Git)

Continuous integration tools (Jenkins, Travis)

Automation testing frameworks (Selenium, Cucumber BDD)

Agile methodologies

Technical communication skills

Fluent written and spoken English

Education

ISTQB - Certified Tester Foundation Level (CTFL)

Tools

Jenkins

Selenium

Git

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Introduction

We are looking for a skilled QA/Automation Engineer to join our IBM AIOps Team, based in Dublin.

Our mission is to help our clients innovate faster, reduce operational cost and transform IT operations (ITOps) across a changing landscape with an AIOps platform that delivers visibility into performance data and dependencies across environments.

As a QA/Automation Engineer in AIOps, you'll play a pivotal role in ensuring the quality and reliability of our products. Your work will directly contribute to the success of our mission and the satisfaction of our customers. At IBM, you will use the latest software development tools, techniques and approaches and work with leading minds in the industry to build solutions you can be proud of.

Your Role And Responsibilities

• Work across development teams to deliver a high quality product
• Developing automation to simply build, deployment and test activities
• Creating and encouraging a culture of quality on the team and within the greater organization
• Estimating, prioritizing, planning and coordinating QA efforts
• Establishing good practices for improving product quality
• Implementing the automatic provisioning of infrastructure for test execution environments
• Performing code/design reviews/inspections
• Analyzing defects and performing root cause analysis

Required Technical And Professional Expertise

• 3-5 years’ experience in a QA automation position
• Min. 2 years’ experience with a major programming language like Java, JavaScript, Go, Python, C/C++
• Experience with Linux operating systems, comfortable both using the command line interface and authoring Unix shell scripts (e.g. bash)
• Experience with cloud technologies such as Podman/Docker, OpenShift, Kubernetes (K8s and K3s) and Containers, including deploying and managing systems.
• Understanding of version control systems (Git, etc.), including branching and merging strategies
• Experience with software build tools and continuous integration tools (Jenkins, Travis)
• Experience using automation testing frameworks (Selenium, Cucumber BDD)
• Experience working in an agile environment
• Strong technical communication skills
• Able and eager to learn new languages, frameworks and tools
• Fluent in written and spoken English

Preferred Technical And Professional Experience

Differentiator is certification "ISTQB - Certified Tester Foundation Level (CTFL)"