IBM

Introduction

A career in IBM Software means you’ll be part of a team that transforms our customers’ challenges into solutions. Seeking new possibilities and always staying curious, we are dedicated to creating AI-powered, cloud-native software that helps organizations manage and execute strategy at scale.

We are seeking a QA Engineer specializing in test automation who combines strong testing fundamentals with an engineering mindset and a willingness to continuously improve how quality is achieved.

IBM’s product and technology landscape includes Research, Software, and Infrastructure. Entering this domain positions you at the heart of IBM, where growth and innovation thrive.

Your role and responsibilities

As a key member of our engineering team, you will play a vital role in ensuring the quality, reliability, and maintainability of Targetprocess, an enterprise-grade Strategic Portfolio Management (SPM) product. You will own the team-level test strategy, balancing manual and automated testing, and driving high-quality delivery through scalable end-to-end functional and regression automation.

You will collaborate closely with developers, product managers, and other QA engineers to embed quality throughout the software development lifecycle, while aligning your team’s approach with broader product quality strategy.

In this role you will:

• Own and continuously evolve the test strategy within your team (scope, coverage goals, regression approach, risk-based prioritization, release readiness), aligned with the overall product quality strategy.
• Design, implement, and maintain end-to-end automated tests covering critical user flows and regression scenarios across a React frontend and TypeScript /.NET backend.
• Apply a hybrid QA approach, combining exploratory/manual testing with automation, and making informed decisions about what to automate and when.
• Build and maintain reliable, readable, and maintainable automation using modern web testing frameworks (currently Cypress and Playwright), while remaining open to experimenting with and evolving tooling and approaches as the product and technology landscape changes.
• Integrate automated tests into GitHub-based CI pipelines, ensuring fast feedback, clear reporting, and actionable diagnostics for failures.
• Track test scenarios, execution status, and quality signals using TestRail, supporting transparency and release decision-making.
• Collaborate with the team on acceptance criteria, definition of done, and testability concerns, helping to raise the overall quality bar.
• Work effectively with containerized environments, understanding how deployments, environments, and test stability interact.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• Test Strategy Ownership (Team Scope):
• Experience defining and owning a pragmatic test strategy for a development team, including test coverage goals, regression scope, release criteria, and risk-based testing.
• Hybrid QA Execution:
• Comfortable combining exploratory/manual testing with automation, and evolving coverage over time based on risk, value, and product maturity.
• End-to-End Test Automation:
• Hands-on experience building and maintaining end-to-end functional and regression automation for modern web applications using contemporary test frameworks.
• Modern Web & Services Testing:
• Solid understanding of testing across a modern stack (React UI + TypeScript /.NET services), including test design, stable test data, and environment dependencies.
• CI/CD & Engineering Practices:
• Experience integrating automated tests into CI pipelines (GitHub), working with version control, and treating test code with the same care as production code.
• Test Management & Quality Reporting:
• Experience using tools such as TestRail to manage test scenarios, track execution, and communicate quality status clearly.
• Collaboration & Quality Advocacy:
• Ability to work effectively within cross-functional teams and advocate for quality through clear communication and shared ownership.

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Evolving Test Tooling & Practices:
• Interest and experience in experimenting with new testing tools, frameworks, or techniques, and evolving the test approach as the product and organization grow.
• Container-Aware Testing:
• Familiarity with testing in Kubernetes-based environments and understanding how infrastructure affects test reliability and execution.
• Enterprise / SaaS Experience:
• Experience working on enterprise-grade or SaaS products where stability, backward compatibility, and user experience are critical.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence—from machine learning to generative AI—to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM’s AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM’s hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments—a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business.

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.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

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 500 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.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

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