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Software Developer

IBM

2 - 5 years

Pune

Posted: 11/06/2026

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Job Description

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

We are seeking a talented and motivated QA/Test Developer with performance testing expertise to join our dynamic team. The QA/Test Developer will play a crucial role in ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of our world class data security solution. You will work closely with the development and quality assurance teams to identify and address performance bottlenecks and ensure a seamless user experience. You need to be versatile, display leadership qualities and open minded to take on new problems that our customers face.

IBM Guardium Data Protection is a market leader in the data security domain. This enterprise-grade product protects sensitive data across hybrid cloud environments, databases, data warehouses, big data platforms, and file systems, serving thousands of customers globally.

Essential Job Functions

Performance Testing & Engineering

  • Design, develop, and execute performance, load, stress, and scalability tests for applications (including data security platforms such as Guardium or similar).

  • Define and implement performance testing strategies aligned with business and technical requirements.

  • Identify performance risks early and proactively suggest mitigation approaches.

Test Planning & Strategy

  • Create comprehensive performance test plans, scenarios, and workload models based on system architecture and usage patterns.

  • Collaborate with architects and developers to ensure performance considerations are integrated into the design phase.

Scripting & Automation

  • Develop, enhance, and maintain performance test scripts using tools such as Apache JMeter, LoadRunner, or equivalent.

  • Contribute to CI/CD pipeline integration for automated performance regression testing.

Monitoring, Analysis & Optimization

  • Monitor application and infrastructure performance using APM and monitoring tools.

  • Analyze test results, identify bottlenecks (CPU, memory, I/O, network, database), and provide actionable insights.

  • Work closely with development and DevOps teams to tune application performance.

Reporting

  • Prepare detailed performance test reports, dashboards, and executive summaries.

AI-Driven Testing & Innovation

  • Leverage AI-assisted tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot or similar) to accelerate scripting, test design, and analysis.

  • Explore modern performance engineering practices, including predictive analysis and intelligent test optimization.

Collaboration & Documentation

  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams including QA, development, DevOps, and product management.

  • Maintain thorough documentation of test strategies, scripts, configurations, and results.

Continuous Improvement

  • Stay current with emerging trends, tools, and best practices in performance testing and engineering.

  • Drive improvements in performance testing processes, tools, and frameworks.

 

Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
Required Skills and Competencies

  • Proven experience in performance testing, including load testing, stress testing, and scalability testing

  • Hands-on skills on SQL and Database performance analysis tricks and tools

  • Hands-on knowledge of continuous integration and continuous delivery and source code management (preferably GIT)

  • Strong proficiency in performance testing tools and scripting languages (e.g., JMeter, LoadRunner, Gatling)

  • Knowledge of software development methodologies, software architecture, and systems

  • Working knowledge in Linux/Redhat and containerization technology such as Docker, Kubernetes

  • Knowledge of logging frameworks or ELK(Elastic, logstash, Kibana)

  • Good problem-solving skills and proficiency in Java or Groovy

  • Strong scripting skills in at least one language (BASH, Groovy)

  • Ability to manage multiple projects, while ensuring that commitments and timelines are met

  • Familiarity with AI-powered development tools and willingness to adopt AI assistants for code generation, test automation, and productivity enhancement

Good to Have Skills and Competencies

  • Experience with monitoring frameworks (Nagios, Prometheus, DataDog, App dynamics etc)

  • Experience with Unix/Linux commands related to system performance including top, iostat, dstat, sar, vmstat

  • Experience with performance assessment tooling and technologies such as JMeter, JConsole, perf and be able to develop custom tooling

  • Experience in Graphite or Grafana dashboards

  • Knowledge of data security and compliance requirements

  • Experience with AI/ML tools for test optimization, predictive analytics, or automated test generation

  • Hands-on experience with GitHub Copilot, IBM watsonx Code Assistant, or similar AI coding assistants

 

Years of Experience:
4 - 10

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM 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 @ IBM

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 within everything that they do.

 

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM’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 500 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.

IBM 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, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

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About Company

IBM (International Business Machines Corporation) is a leading global technology and consulting company, headquartered in Armonk, New York. With over a century of innovation, IBM provides a wide range of technology solutions and professional services. The company specializes in cloud computing, artificial intelligence (AI), data analytics, quantum computing, and cybersecurity, helping organizations digitally transform their operations. IBM’s flagship AI platform, Watson, and its hybrid cloud capabilities are widely used across industries such as healthcare, finance, government, and manufacturing. IBM is known for its strong commitment to research and development, and it consistently ranks among the top organizations for U.S. patents.

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