Functional Tester: Finance Industry - Calgary, Canada - IBM

IBM

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Calgary, Canada

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Sophia Lee

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Description

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

IBM Consulting helps our clients fundamentally redesign experiences to create new sources of value, digitally reinvent their operations for great efficiency and transform their entire enterprises through cognitive.

We invite you to consider joining IBM's global reach, outcome-focused methodologies, domain skills and deep industry expertise that are helping transform the way we live and work.

IBM's state-of-the-art Client Innovation Centre (CIC) is the first of its kind in Canada.

The Western Canada CIC weaves together IBM's business insights and industry-leading software portfolio and is ideally suited for any client that needs flexible access to emerging or niche skills that may not be cost effective to grow internally.

In addition, our focus on our team is unparalleled as demonstrated by the following:

The CIC is one of IBM's highest performing delivery centres worldwide -for retention, client satisfaction and utilization. Our employees are empowered to stay and grow within IBM.
We are very focused on continuous skill development staff training is one of the largest Centre investments. Employees are immersed in a culture of learning and constant growth.
Investment in key partnership with universities, government and private sector groups which has resulted in IBM having a key influencing role to invigorate Calgary's technology sector

Functional Tester responsibilities will include:

Create Test strategies, Test Plans, Test Completion documents and status reports
Understanding and adapting complex system architecture and creating test strategy
Create traceability Matrix to map requirements and test cases in a spreadsheet
Consult with business and systems analysts on test plans and test cases.
Find reproduce and accurately report issues in detailed bug reports
Analyze and troubleshoot reported defects and internal issues
Follow up on bugfixing efforts with developers to ensure proper closure and resolution of discovered and existing issue
Review test cases with SME and BA
General overview on the Software Development Lifecycle
Create detailed system and integration test cases
Analyze test results and demonstrate the results
Provide test execution and defect status reports
Log and manage defects in a tool and conduct defect triage meetings
Escalate Roadblocks

WesternCIC CIC

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

5+ years of experience
3+ years of financial industry experience
Strong ETL or SQL experience
Ability to quickly acquire knowledge on complex integrated systems
Proactive in contacting technical and business person to understand the system flows
Test Management tools (TFS, Jira, HPQC, etc.)

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

8+ years of financial industry experience

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