QA Engineer - IBM MQ on NonStop

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QA Engineer - IBM MQ on NonStop

Purpose of the role

As a QA Engineer - IBM MQ on NonStop, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the quality and testing of the product IBM MQ on NonStop. This role requires a highly skilled and experienced engineer capable of taking ownership of tasks and driving them to resolution and completion. You will be working with other team members from R&D and QA.

Key responsibilities and tasks

• Testing the product IBM MQ on HP NonStop utilizing an existing test automation framework
• Assisting development in debugging and problem solving
• Supporting patch, hotfix, and security related releases for the product
• Working closely with the development team to ensure the quality of the product

Professional skills and knowledge

• At least 4 years of experience in IBM MQ application development or testing in a Unix, Linux, Windows or NonStop environment.
• Coding experience with C, Java, and scripting language such as Python
• Familiarity with GitLab CI/CD test pipelines and build process would be an advantage
• Adept with agile software development lifecycle and DevOps principles
• Able to communicate processes and results with all parties involved in the product team, including engineers, product owner, scrum master, third party vendors, and customers
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills

Language:

• English: required in oral and written communication, other language skills as German helpful but not a requirement

Personal skills

Value driven professional

Humble

• Ready to listen and to share expertise and best practice across own team
• Open for feedback and flexibility to adapt

Ambitious

• Taking accountability to drive results
• Going the extra mile for great customer experience

Smart

• Ability to prioritize multiple tasks and to set focus
• Passionate to find pragmatic solutions and to innovate

Humane

• Caring for other’s well-being in a remote working environment
• Advocates diversity and fairness

In addition:

• Team player with excellent collaboration skills in a distributed team
• Good communicator in customer facing scenarios
• Willing to continuously learn and improve skills to keep up with technology changes.
• Self-learner with an ability to work independently under minimal supervision.
• Happy to take on a leadership role as and when circumstances require this.
• Comfortable discussing technical topics directly with customers.
• Open to dealing with new and old technologies.

Qualification

• At least Bachelor in Computer Science (or similar subject), higher degree or similar industry experience
• 4+ years in Software Development or a technical testing role