Introduction
We are seeking a skilled Quality Assurance Engineer to join our IBM Software team. As part of our team, you will be responsible to assure that the products we build reach out customers with quality. We provide large worldwide enterprises with robust data governance solutions. You will contribute to taking IBM® Manta Data Lineage to a new level, and help our customers determine data flow throughout their models and systems by increasing their data pipeline transparency.

Your Role and Responsibilities
Your main duties will include designing test cases, verify that new developments are according to specifications, and work towards improving our test coverage. You will work together with our developers, product managers and DevOps to ensure that the quality process is not only the testing part, but also to review and challenge requirements, and ensure the smooth rollout into our SaaS and Stand-Alone solutions. While this is not a pure Automation test role, you will have the opportunity to use your good judgement and automate the test cases you consider relevant.

What you’ll do as part of the role:

• Learn how our suit of products work, and how our customers use them.
• Support the increments we deliver, by certifying the product works as expected after a small bug fix, a security update or a major new features.
• Contribute to a quality culture, by being able to understand and challenge requirements coming from Product Management.
• Contribute to a quality culture, by working together with developers to quickly validate new changes.
• Communicate product quality via bug reports, and overall bug prioritisation.
• Implement automated tests and maintain the existing automated tests (when applicable)
• Review and improve existing test coverage.
• Be involved in feature delivery planing, and contribute with effort estimations and a plan to ensure quality.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Experience performing this role for a complex software product
• Experience working with test management tools (TestRail or similar)
• Experience working within in agile enviromemt
• Autonomy to perform technical validations (e.g. querying relational and/or graph databases, using Portman/Insomnia to validate API responses)
• Experience performing API tests
• Able to translate product specifications into test cases
• Ability to communicate your thought and work collaboratively with cross-functional teams.
• Ability to work with uncertainty and fast changing environment
• Proactive and able to operate outside your responsibilities if needed

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (or equivalent), or relevant background

• Experience (or willingness) to work in a corporate software development environment
• Nice to have: Experience working with test Automation pipelines
• Nice to have: Experience working with Docker and/or Kubernetes
• Nice to have: Experience working in multi-cultural environments
• Nice to have: Curiosity about Data products and how to help customers to better understand their data