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QA/Test Developer

IBM

IBM

Software Engineering, Quality Assurance
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Posted on Jul 2, 2025
Introduction

You will be leading development squads working on IBM Storage Scale. Following are the responsibilities of this role
1. Understand the requirements working with product managers, customers etc , convert them to epic and drive end to end development

Your role and responsibilities

As part of this role, the engineer will be working on following:

  • Test Planning & Strategy
    • Design and define test strategy and test plans for NFS and SMB protocol features.
    • Collaborate with developers, architects, and product managers to understand functional and non-functional requirements.
    • Determine test coverage, prioritize test cases based on risk, and identify automation candidates.
  • Protocol Validation: Perform functional, regression, and negative testing of NFS and SMB implementations.
  • Automation Development
    • Develop and maintain automated test suites using Python, Shell, or frameworks like Pytest or Robot Framework.
    • Integrate test automation into CI/CD pipelines
  • Troubleshooting & Debugging: Investigate test failures, protocol anomalies, or performance degradations
  • Documentation
    • Document test cases, procedures, automation workflows, and environment setup instructions.
    • Provide test summary reports, bug reports with detailed logs and repro steps.
Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Master's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
  • 3+ years of experience in Test automation and manual testing
  • 1+ in years of experience in Test of Core Protocol
  • Understanding of stateless vs stateful protocols.
  • Understanding of share-level and file-level permissions
  • 2+ years of experience of Python for writing automation test suites, REST API interaction, and data validation
  • Understanding of Pytest and/or Robot Framework
  • Understanding of File I/O tools, Network tools, and Log parsing
  • Understanding of Test Case Development
  • Knowledge in debugging and troubleshooting on Linux environment.
  • Familiarity with CI/CD tools like Maven, Git and Jenkins is preferred.
  • Familiarity with Storage, data protection products, will be added advnatage.
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills, both verbal and written.
Preferred technical and professional experience
  • Familiarity with NFS exports, mounts, ACLs, and Kerberos integration
  • Knowledge of Active Directory integration, NTLM, Kerberos.

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