Software Quality Engineer - OpenShift Virtualization

Senior Software Quality Engineer - OpenShift Virtualization

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The OpenShift Virtualization team is looking for a Senior 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 virtual machine storage capabilities. You'll be responsible for all aspects of quality for Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, including designing test plans, extending automation frameworks, and developing new automated tests. You will make sure our solutions fulfill the highest possible enterprise quality, performance, usability, and supportability. As a Senior Quality Engineer, you will gain a deep technical understanding of a variety of popular technologies, including Virtualization, containers, Kubernetes, Red Hat OpenShift, and enterprise storage systems.

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;

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

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

• Design, develop and maintain automation frameworks, CI  and scripts with Golang and Python 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:

• Testing experience working with globally distributed team members

• Bachelor's degree or higher, or equivalent in computer science or a related field

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

• Familiarity with testing methodologies and techniques

• Knowledge of the Linux operating system (any distribution)

• Knowledge of Virtualization platforms

• Knowledge of storage systems (SAN, NAS) and storage APIs (clone snapshot, attach, detach)

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

• 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:

• 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

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