**Introduction**
As a Test Specialist at IBM, your analytical and technical skills will directly impact the quality of the software we create.
Come work in an agile environment where you will help each iteration reach the next level.
Whether the testing is manual, automated, or cognitive, you hold a key role in releasing the best deliverables to IBM'ers and our clients.
**Your Role and Responsibilities**
**Your responsibilities will include**:
- Provide strategic direction to ensure that the project is supporting the client's vision, goals and objectives.
- Propose a test automation strategy / Plan, facilitating automated scripts maintenance and design (framework, modularization etc.)
- Create test reports / Support test reports / Support risk assessment.
- Define required test environment and test data needs.
- Understand the functional scenario to automate.
- Design test cases.
- Automate designed test cases / Update existing automated test cases with Tosca.
- Automate API/REST.
- Coordinate test data requests / Create test data.
- Schedule automated execution.
- Take part in automated execution results analysis and debug automated test scripts.
- Report defects.
**Required Technical and Professional Expertise**
- Experience using Tricentis Tosca & Certified in Tosca
- At least 4+ years of hands on test automation experience with HP UFT, XML, Selenium, Cucumber, Gherkin, Parasoft SOA, VB Scripting, QuerySurge,HP ALM and Jira
- Experience in distributed automated tests in physical, virtual test lab
- Experience in designing a custom automation framework based on test automation requirements and technology
- Experience in building solution accelerators for testing
- SAP and\\\\or retail experience
- Very good English Communication Skills
- Demonstrated excellence in technical and/or automation testing processes and methodologies.
- Strong overall QA and Testing Knowledge.
- Strong knowledge in API.
- Strong knowledge in SOAP
- Should possess deep expertise of Mobile Automation Testing best-practices and commonly used IT testing methodologies.
- Strong experience developing positive and effective relationships at all levels including business, management, and team members
- Be well versed in the structures, processes, and procedures to assist in project delivery.
**Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise**
- Well versed with Industry standards, testing certifications and drives efforts to bring project into conformance with such standards, facilitates the development, implementation and adherence of testing department standards.
- In-depth software quality assurance experience including demonstrated team work in successfully complex and multi-faceted testing projects.
- Ability to work smoothly and successfully with people of varied experience, skill levels, technical and business savvy, and personality type.
- Excellent communication skills required, including the ability to effectively lead meetings, facilitate solutions, motivate the development team, & create effective documentation.
Detail oriented multi-tasker with ability to prioritize and manage conflicting demands to targeted deadlines.
**About Business Unit**
IBM Services is a team of business, strategy and technology consultants that design, build, and run foundational systems and services that is the backbone of the world's economy.
IBM Services partners with the world's leading companies in over 170 countries to build smarter businesses by reimagining and reinventing through technology, with its outcome-focused methodologies, industry-leading portfolio and world class research and operations expertise leading to results-driven innovation and enduring excellence.
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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