**Introduction** At IBM Software, we transform client challenges into solutions. Building the world’s leading AI-powered, cloud-native products that shape the future of business and society. Our legacy of innovation creates endless opportunities for IBMers to learn, grow, and make an impact on a global scale. Working in Software means joining a team fueled by curiosity and collaboration. You’ll work with diverse technologies, partners, and industries to design, develop, and deliver solutions that power digital transformation. With a culture that values innovation, growth, and continuous learning, IBM Software places you at the heart of IBM’s product and technology landscape. Here, you’ll have the tools and opportunities to advance your career while creating software that changes the world. **Your role and responsibilities** * Champion quality throughout the development lifecycle — from story definition to post-release validation. * Work in an Agile, collaborative environment to design, recommend, and implement testing standards and best practices. * Collaborate early in story development and design discussions to ensure testability, edge cases, and failure scenarios are well-considered. * Perform functional, integration, regression, and exploratory testing to uncover product issues before release. * Partner closely with developers and product owners to identify, reproduce, and triage defects, ensuring clear root cause analysis and sustainable fixes. * Drive the adoption and expansion of test automation — including unit, integration, API, and end-to-end tests. * Develop and maintain automated test frameworks and reusable test assets aligned with product architecture and CI/CD pipelines. * Contribute to continuous testing and continuous delivery practices, ensuring that every build meets product-grade quality standards. * Monitor product quality through test analytics, defect metrics, and release readiness criteria. * Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure test environments, data, and tooling are reliable and scalable. * Actively identify quality gaps and propose innovative solutions to improve product resilience and customer satisfaction. **Required technical and professional expertise** * Strong experience in manual and automated testing within an Agile product development environment. * Automation using Javascript, Nodejs with Mocha framework * Proficiency with one or more test automation frameworks (e.g., Cypress, Playwright, Selenium, JUnit, TestNG, or similar). * Familiarity with continuous integration and delivery pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI). * Solid understanding of software QA methodologies, test design techniques, and defect management practices. * Working knowledge of programming or scripting languages (e.g., JavaScript, Python, or Java) for writing automated tests. * Experience with version control systems (e.g., Git) and collaboration tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence). * Strong analytical and debugging skills with attention to detail and product behavior. **Preferred technical and professional experience** * Good to have working experience on VSCode, test management tools like TestRail and exposure to Mainframe. * Exposure to performance, load, and security testing tools and methodologies. * Knowledge of containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes) and test environment setup in CI/CD pipelines. * Familiarity with observability and monitoring tools to validate system reliability and performance. * Experience working in product organizations with a focus on continuous improvement and rapid iteration. IBM 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.