Quality Engineer-Functional

IBM; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

IBM Consulting is seeking a Quality Engineer with a functional focus to design and execute testing for applications and systems built with custom technologies. Your work spans functional, system integration, and end-to-end testing.

You will design test scenarios, perform manual and automation testing, report defects, and lead testing activities while guiding junior team members in best practices. This role emphasizes continuous improvement of testing processes across client engagements.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and executing tests for applications and systems built using custom technologies.
• Proficient in manual and automation testing across functional, integration, and end-to-end levels.
• Ability to lead testing activities and mentor junior team members.
• Experience with test planning, estimation, environments, and data requirements.
• Knowledge of BDD/TDD approaches and test accelerators.

Responsibilities

• Design test scenarios, plan testing activities, estimate work efforts, and identify test environment and data requirements.
• Execute testing including manual and automated tests; report test status and defects.
• Analyze test outcomes to drive improvements in testing strategy.
• Lead testing activities and guide junior teammates in testing best practices.
• Improve testing efficiency and quality through process enhancements.

Skills

Functional testing

System testing

Automation testing

BDD/TDD

Test planning

Defect management

Team leadership

Job description

Introduction

A career in IBM Consulting is built on long-term client relationships and close collaboration worldwide. You'll work with leading companies across industries, helping them shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. With support from our strategic partners, robust IBM technology, and Red Hat, you'll have the tools to drive meaningful change and accelerate client impact. At IBM Consulting, curiosity fuels success. You'll be encouraged to challenge the norm, explore new ideas, and create innovative solutions that deliver real results. Our culture of growth and empathy focuses on your long-term career development while valuing your unique skills and experiences.

A career in IBM Consulting is built on long-term client relationships and close collaboration worldwide. You'll work with leading companies across industries, helping them shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. With support from our strategic partners, robust IBM technology, and Red Hat, you'll have the tools to drive meaningful change and accelerate client impact. At IBM Consulting, curiosity fuels success. You'll be encouraged to challenge the norm, explore new ideas, and create innovative solutions that deliver real results. Our culture of growth and empathy focuses on your long-term career development while valuing your unique skills and experiences.

Your Role And Responsibilities

As a Quality Engineer with a functional focus, you specialize in designing and executing testing for applications and systems built using custom technologies. Your expertise spans across all levels of testing, including functional, system integration, and end-to-end testing.

Your Primary Responsibilities Will Include

• Design Test Scenarios: Create optimized test scenarios, plan testing activities, estimate work efforts, and identify test environment and data requirements, utilizing deep skills in core testing, technical testing, and business domain/processes.
• Execute Testing: Perform manual and automation testing, execute test cases, report test status, and address defects through creation, triage, and resolution, leveraging various testing tools, BDD/TDD approaches, and test accelerators.
• Analyze Test Outcomes: Apply analytical and cognitive techniques to drive continuous improvements, analyzing test outcomes to inform future testing strategies and optimize test efficiency and quality.
• Lead Testing Activities: Oversee testing activities, ensuring effective test planning, execution, and defect resolution, and guiding junior team members in testing best practices.
• Optimize Test Efficiency: Develop strategies to enhance test efficiency and quality, identifying opportunities for process improvements and implementing changes to optimize testing outcomes.

This role can be performed from anywhere in the United States of America.

Required Technical And Professional Expertise

• Core Testing Expertise: Experience with designing and executing testing for applications and systems built using custom technologies, with expertise spanning across all levels of testing, including functional, system integration, and end-to-end testing.
• Technical Testing Skills: Experience in utilizing various testing tools, BDD/TDD approaches, and test accelerators to enhance test efficiency and quality, with proficiency in manual and automation testing.
• Business Domain Knowledge: Experience working with business domain/processes, enabling the creation of optimized test scenarios, planning testing activities, estimating work efforts, and identifying test environment and data requirements.
• Test Analysis and Improvement: Experience with analyzing test outcomes using analytical and cognitive techniques to drive continuous improvements, informing future testing strategies and optimizing test efficiency and quality.
• Test Leadership: Experience in leading testing activities, overseeing effective test planning, execution, and defect resolution, and guiding junior team members in testing best practices.

Preferred Technical And Professional Experience

• Advanced Testing Methodologies: Experience with BDD/TDD approaches and test accelerators to enhance test efficiency and quality, with the ability to leverage these methodologies to optimize testing outcomes.
• Multi-Level Testing Expertise: Experience in designing and executing testing across all levels, including functional, system integration, and end-to-end testing, with the ability to create optimized test scenarios and plans.
• Analytical Techniques: Experience with analytical and cognitive techniques to drive continuous improvements, with the ability to analyze test outcomes and inform future testing strategies.