Job Summary
Red Hat Software Engineering is looking for a Principal Software Quality Engineer to join our Secure Supply Chain organization (Remote). In this role, you will help test and verify offerings on top of Red Hat OpenShift. Using your expertise and principles of software engineering, automation and continuous improvement, you will help create a product where availability, reliability, and security are treated through the entire application life cycle, not treated as an afterthought. As a Principal software Quality Engineer, you will write and enhance test suite to ship product and also develop tools to automate software deployments, upgrades, scaling, monitoring, alerting, and testing. In this role, you will lead the release testing efforts and guide team members in their testing and CI related tasks. Successful applicants must reside in a country where Red Hat is registered to do business.
What you will do:
Operate within Linux/UNIX environments
Work with Containers such as Kubernetes or OpenShift
Analyze and communicate the quality risks based on available data
Design, develop, and maintain test automation frameworks, scripts
Participate in upstream projects testing
Lead and monitor the testing tasks in the team and guide the team members.
Continuously strive for the test process improvements
Familiarity with Agile methodologies and processes
Own and implement the Quality strategy in the team
Maintain and extend the continuous integration (CI) infrastructure
Maintain regular communication with project stakeholders including development team, product owner and management.
Conduct research on testing tools, frameworks and its integration
What you will Bring:
We're looking for a highly experienced Software Quality Engineer with 9+ years of experience from the industry with:
Highly experienced with any programming language like Golang/Python-Must
Experience with Kubernetes or OpenShift- Must
Linux/UNIX operating systems
Expertise with test automation frameworks like gauge/pytest/ginkgo- at least one, pytest preferred.
Experience with UI testing
Experience with CI/CD
Knowledge of the UNIX -Advantage
The following is considered a plus
Previous code contributions to open-source projects or code samples on GitHub
Experience in integrating AI related tools to improve the testing processes
Certification like ISTQB (Foundational/Advanced)
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About Red Hat
Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions, using a community-powered approach to deliver high-performing Linux, cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. Spread across 40+ countries, our associates work flexibly across work environments, from in-office, to office-flex, to fully remote, depending on the requirements of their role. Red Hatters are encouraged to bring their best ideas, no matter their title or tenure. We're a leader in open source because of our open and inclusive environment. We hire creative, passionate people ready to contribute their ideas, help solve complex problems, and make an impact.
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