Introduction
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.
Your role and responsibilities
Virtualization is a key offering of the Linux on Z Platform that is used by clients all over the world. It is imperative that the offering is secure, robust, and reliable; our job is to verify that it meets those standards. We install and test Red Hat OCP on Linux for System Z. Our goal is to provide product validation in an enterprise ready and can sustain mission critical workloads for long periods of time.
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We approach our testing with an automation-first mindset, designing and architecting our work to be consistent and reproduceable. Success in this role means having the curiosity to explore new innovations that expedite our testing cycles while maintaining complex testing configurations.
As a Solution Tester, you will be responsible for:
1. Designing and automating RH OCP test suites to ensure reliability of the platform technology
2. Having a client-first mindset to test at scale and imitate customer-like environments
3. Creating strategies and scripts to test new features and functionalities
4. Contributing and reviewing code for internal and external repositories
5. Documenting processes (Test plans) and procedures for clarity and reproducibility
6. Interacting with counterparts in IBM US/Germany teams and Red Hat
Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
- 5 - 10 years of relevant industry experience
- Comfortable working with any of the three major Linux distros (Redhat, Sles, Ubuntu). Preferably on a Z system (s390x)
- Knowledge on Red Hat OCP preferred or knowledge on Kubernetes and add ons
- Understanding of virtualization and containerization concepts. z/VM and KVM are preferred.
- Experience building pipelines for automation servers such as Jenkins, Prow CI and Tekton
- Skilled in a scripting language. Python or Ansible is preferred.
- Good experience with CI/CD pipelines and tools and processes
- Go Programming language experiance is a plus
- Strong team player with good communication and interpersonal skills
- Proven ability to work effectively in a global team environment.
Preferred technical and professional experience
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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.
YOUR LIFE @ IBM
In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.
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.
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