Job Description

Introduction

In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centers (Delivery Centers), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.



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

• As Test Specialist, you will be responsible for testing performance, load, scalability / capacity, networks and infrastructure.
• You will be involved in the planning, design, management, execution, and reporting of tests using appropriate testing tools and techniques.
• Responsible to administer and manage the complete Delivery with support Skills Performance and Capacity Management.



Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Minimum 3- 7 years of experience in Performance Testing
• Expertise with industry-standard Load testing tools such as HP Load Runner, Performance Centre, Jmeter and SoapUI, and IBM Rational Performance Tester
• Proven knowledge of Testing manual/functional testing processes, methodology, defect management and defect life cycle.
• Experience in developing the VuGen scripts, debugging, resolving the issues and usage of monitoring tools like DynaTrace,App dymamics and VMstats.



Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Understanding, measuring, and tuning of n-tier applications in clustered environments
• Preparing a Performance Test Strategy is added advantage
• Experience in Operational readiness testing, CPU, physical Memory, and disk usage analysis



About Business UnitIBM Consulting is IBM's consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients' businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

This job requires you to be fully COVID-19 vaccinated prior to your start date and proof of vaccination status will be required before your start date. During the Onboarding process you will be asked to confirm your vaccination status, in case you are unable to get vaccinated for any reason, you can let us know at that stage. Please let us know if you are unable to be vaccinated due to medical or religious reasons. IBM will consider such requests on a case by case basis subject to submission of required proof by the candidate before a stipulated date.

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