Test Automation Engineer

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122Job Description: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 a team dedicated to creating the world’s leading AI-powered, cloud-native software solutions for our customers. Our renowned legacy creates endless global opportunities for our IBMers, so the door is always open for those who want to grow their career.

We are seeking a skilled back-end developer to join our IBM Software team. As part of our team, you will be responsible for developing and maintaining high-quality software products, working with a variety of technologies and programming languages.

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
IBM MQ is the market-leading, message-oriented middleware product that delivers a reliable, secure, proven universal messaging backbone across diverse computing environments for 10,000+ organisations, spanning many industries around the world.

The MQ team employs agile development practices with all team members actively engaged in the planning, development, testing and usability related tasks owned and delivered by their ‘Delivery Team’. Preferred candidates will be enthusiastic, highly motivated team players who have software skills/experience and demonstrate a genuine desire and aptitude to perform the multi-disciplinary activities inherent in a Software Engineering role. The work performed will have a high degree of technical content, is diverse and challenging yet always rewarding.

Successful candidates will be comfortable working as part of a global team and have good communication (verbal & written) skills.

If you love technology, a technical challenge, being part of a successful team and want to make a difference to how global business meets the demands of moving data around the world quickly, securely and reliably then Messaging is for you.

**PLEASE NOTE** – This position requires working onsite at our Hursley location a minimum of 3 days per week.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Demonstrated Professional Experience with Automated Testing and Building Test Suites
• Demonstrated Professional experience with scripting languages, such as Perl, Python and BASH is required
• Experience with Linux / UNIX CLI
• Experience in developing and implementing automated testing solutions

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Experience with Container technologies, such as Kubernetes and OpenShift
• Programming experience with C, C++, or Java preferred

About Business UnitIBM 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 @ IBMIn 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 IBMIBM’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.

Location StatementFor additional information about location requirements, please discuss with the recruiter following submission of your application.

Being You @ IBMIBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and 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, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.Location: Winchester, Hampshire