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As a QA/Test Intern within IBM Infrastructure, you will ensure the quality, reliability, performance, and security of enterprise software solutions. You will work closely with developers, architects, product managers, and support teams to design and execute comprehensive testing strategies, automate test coverage, identify defects, and drive continuous quality improvements throughout the software development lifecycle.

• Design, develop, and execute functional, integration, system, regression, performance, and end-to-end test plans.
• Develop and maintain automated test frameworks, scripts, and test suites to improve test coverage, and efficiency.
• Collaborate with software developers and product teams to understand requirements and ensure quality is built into the development process.
• Identify, document, prioritize, and track software defects through resolution.
• Validate new features, enhancements, and bug fixes to ensure they meet functional and non-functional requirements.
• Participate in code reviews, design reviews, sprint planning, and agile development activities.
• Perform root cause analysis of product defects and work with engineering teams to drive corrective actions.
• Contribute to continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines by integrating automated testing and quality gates.
• Monitor product quality metrics and recommend improvements to testing processes, tools, and methodologies.
• Create and maintain test documentation, validation reports, and quality assurance standards.

High School Diploma/GED

Bachelor's Degree

• Understanding of software testing methodologies, test design techniques, and quality assurance principles.
• Experience developing and executing manual and automated test cases.
• Familiarity with test automation frameworks and tools.
• Knowledge of defect tracking and test management tools.
• Experience with Linux/Unix operating systems and command-line environments.
• Understanding of REST APIs, microservices, and distributed systems testing.
• Knowledge of source control systems such as Git.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.

• Experience building and maintaining enterprise-scale test automation frameworks.
• Knowledge of cloud-native technologies including Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker, and containerized applications.
• Experience testing storage, backup, cybersecurity, disaster recovery, or infrastructure management solutions.
• Familiarity with performance, scalability, reliability, and security testing.
• Experience with API automation, UI automation, and service virtualization tools.
• Knowledge of observability, monitoring, logging, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) concepts.
• Experience with AI-assisted testing, test analytics, or intelligent automation solutions.
• Familiarity with IBM Infrastructure technologies, Red Hat OpenShift, hybrid cloud platforms, and enterprise software environments.

IBM Systems helps IT leaders think differently about their infrastructure. IBM servers and storage are no longer inanimate - they can understand, reason, and learn so our clients can innovate while avoiding IT issues. Our systems power the world’s most important industries and our clients are the architects of the future.Join us to help build our leading-edge technology portfoliodesigned for cognitive business and optimized for cloud computing.

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.

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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.

Supplemental 1 employees may be eligible for up to 8 paid holidays, minimum of 56 hours paid sick time and the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan. IBM offers paid family medical leave and disability benefits to eligible employees where required by applicable law.
This position was posted on the date cited in the key job details section and is anticipated to remain posted for 15 days from this date or less if not needed to fill the role.
We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.

IBM will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. Therefore, in order to be considered for this position, you must have the ability to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship.

The compensation range and benefits for this position are based on a full-time schedule for a full calendar year. The salary will vary depending on your job-related skills, experience and location. Pay increment and frequency of pay will be in accordance with employment classification and applicable laws. For part time roles, your compensation and benefits will be adjusted to reflect your hours. Benefits may be pro-rated for those who start working during the calendar year.

24-Aug-2026

130074

TUCSON

Arizona

United States

Hybrid

Infrastructure & Technology

Co-Op (Fixed Term)

Internship

55,620.00

101,970.00

Internship

(0147) International Business Machines Corporation

General (daytime)