Quality Engineer - Performance and Resilience

About IBM Consulting

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 specializing in Performance & Resilience Management, you demonstrate expertise in performance testing, load, scalability, networks, and infrastructure. You apply your skills in a billable services or implementation environment, providing technical expertise in performance and resilience management. Your primary responsibilities will include:

• Design and Execute Tests: Design, manage, and execute tests using appropriate tools and techniques to ensure new and amended systems meet performance criteria and standards.
• Develop Test Designs: Plan and develop test designs, defining the test automation framework to analyze results and resolve performance-related issues.
• Analyze Performance Results: Utilize performance tools to analyze results, identifying areas for improvement and optimizing system performance.
• Provide Technical Expertise: Apply technical expertise in performance and resilience management to deliver high-quality solutions in a billable services or implementation environment.
• Resolve Performance Issues: Collaborate with teams to resolve performance-related issues, ensuring systems meet performance criteria and standards.

Preferred Education

Master's Degree

Required Technical And Professional Expertise

• Performance Testing Expertise: Experience with performance testing, load, scalability, networks, and infrastructure, demonstrating a strong understanding of performance criteria and standards.
• Test Automation Frameworks: Experience with defining test automation frameworks to analyze results and resolve performance-related issues, utilizing performance tools to optimize system performance.
• Performance Tools Proficiency: Experience with utilizing performance tools to analyze results, identifying areas for improvement and optimizing system performance.
• Technical Expertise in Performance Management: Experience applying technical expertise in performance and resilience management to deliver high-quality solutions in a billable services or implementation environment.
• Test Design and Execution: Experience with designing, managing, and executing tests using appropriate tools and techniques to ensure new and amended systems meet performance criteria and standards.

Preferred Technical And Professional Experience

• Exposure to Cloud Environments: Experience working with cloud-based infrastructure and performance testing in cloud environments is beneficial.
• Familiarity with Agile Methodologies: Exposure to agile development methodologies and iterative testing approaches is advantageous.
• Knowledge of Scripting Languages: Familiarity with scripting languages such as Python, Perl, or Ruby is helpful in creating automated testing scripts.

Key skills/competency

• Quality Engineering
• Performance Testing
• Resilience Management
• Scalability Testing
• Load Testing
• Network Performance
• Infrastructure Performance
• Test Automation
• Agile Methodologies
• Cloud Environments