Software Quality Engineer

Write and implement test plans for new Red Hat Openstack features in Polarion. Develop new test cases and scenarios that include functional, negative, update/upgrade and deployment testing to ensure company releases high quality products.

*Telecommuting permitted: work may be performed within normal commuting distance from the Red Hat, Inc. office in Raleigh, NC.
 

What You Will Do:

• Test Red Hat Openstack product with a variety of hardware resources, including different servers, CPU types, network topologies and storage backends.
• Develop automated software tests using Infrared automation infrastructure and available scripting languages, such as Ansible and Python.
• Support the community automation testing framework, Tempest, and enhance coverage by adding more tests to existing suites.
• Report product bugs, track and communicate the relevant information with Development and Product Managers on a daily basis using bugzilla.
• Build and improve upon tools while gaining support from stakeholders in the Quality Engineering and Development teams.
• Execute test cases and verify bugs fixes both manually and automatically using physical and virtual servers, switches and storage arrays.
• Work closely with developers and Product Managers to ensure the quality of documents and products by prioritizing tasks and analyzing outcomes.
• Responsible for regression testing and execution, as well as automating cases to improve product efficiency in future releases.
• Participate in feature design meetings to incorporate and highlight Quality Engineer and customer perspectives into the discussion and ensure that they are represented in the final product.
• Follow and document company templates, standards, and compliance so that other users can replicate, re-execute, and re-verify test cases written by the Quality Engineer.

What You Will Bring:

• Bachelor's degree (U.S. or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field and two (2) years of experience in the job offered or related role.
• Must have two (2) years of experience with: Linux or UNIX systems; active scripting and programming using Python and Bash; and virtualization and cloud computing technologies.
• Must have one (1) year of experience with: continuous integration and developing automated tests; OpenStack; writing test automation in Ansible; and OpenShift or Kubernetes.

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The salary range for this position is $84,400 - $134,970. Actual offer will be based on your qualifications.

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