Senior Software Quality Engineer

The OpenShift Virtualization team is looking for a Software Quality Engineer. In this role, you will work on industry leading technologies such as Red Hat OpenShift, KubeVirt, Libvirt, and Qemu to ensure that we produce the highest quality management system for virtual machines. You'll be responsible for all aspects of quality for Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, including designing test plans, extending automation frameworks, developing new automated tests and maintaining existing ones. You will make sure our solutions fulfill the highest possible enterprise quality, performance, usability, and supportability. As a Quality Engineer, you will gain a deep technical understanding of a variety of popular technologies, including Virtualization, containers, Kubernetes, Red Hat OpenShift.

You will be a part of Red Hat’s culture that makes us unique in the Industry, enriched with Open Management Practices, Open Decision Framework, and diversity and inclusion, to name a few. 

Regardless of your role and designation, you will have the freedom to showcase your leadership skills and ability to bring innovative solutions to complex problems at any level that will help you to get wider visibility in our organization.

What you will do:

• Execute manual and automated tests for OpenShift Virtualization and deliver clear status in a timely manner.

• Conduct failure analysis, explore, identify and document new bugs, advocate for the resolution of  bugs and communicate the impact on customers to developers and support.

• Represent the customer voice in front of developers and help them understand how consumers of our software may engage with it.

• Coordinate cross-components teams to be responsible for bug verification, regression testing.

• Work with the product release teams to be responsible for the product delivery related testing; 

• Design, develop and maintain automation frameworks, CI and scripts with Python and Golang for OpenShift Virtualization testing and implementation

• Participate in the test planning and product planning processes

• Conduct new feature research and design test cases

• Explore, identify and document new bugs.  Advocate for the resolution of bugs and communicate the impact on customers to developers and support

• Constantly learn new things and maintain an overview of current technologies

• Work in a fast-paced Agile global environment of talented Quality Engineers

• Provide mentoring and leadership to junior Quality Engineers 

What you will bring:

• 2+ years of professional experience working in QE or similar roles

• Programming skills in Python, shell, Golang or another programming language

• Ability to work Hybrid in Raleigh NC, Boston MA or Lowell , MA

• Knowledge of the Linux operating system (any distribution)

• Testing experience working with globally distributed team members

• Familiarity with DevOps testing methodologies and techniques

• Motivated and dedicated to learning and collaboration

• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and learn quickly

• Solid written and verbal communication skills in English

 

The following are considered a plus:

• Familiarity with virtualization

• Knowledge of Linux containers, Kubernetes, Red Hat OpenStack Platform, or Red Hat OpenShift

• Knowledge of CI/CD and Jenkins

• Knowledge of security testing

• Contributions to open source projects or publicly available code samples

The salary range for this position is $105,860.00 - $169,340.00. Actual offer will be based on your qualifications.

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