Associate Software Quality Engineer - OpenShift Virtualization

Job Summary

Quality Engineering at Red Hat offers an inclusive and open environment for engineers to collaborate and build technology solutions for product testing and release readiness. Red Hat is the place for you to test your quality engineering mindset and nurture your DevOps and Leadership skills.

Find out more about what it is like to work in Red Hat QE directly from our engineers in thisvideo.

The OpenShift Virtualization team is looking for an Associate 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 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 an Associate Software Quality Engineer, you will gain a deep technical understanding of a variety of popular technologies, including Virtualization, containers, Kubernetes, and 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.

• 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.

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

• Familiarity with testing methodologies and techniques

• Knowledge of the Linux operating system (any distribution)

• Familiarity with Virtualization platforms

• Experience automating test cases 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 storage systems (SAN, NAS) and storage APIs (clone snapshot, attach, detach)

• Knowledge of CI/CD and Jenkins

• Knowledge of security testing

• Contributions to open source projects or publicly available code samples

About Red Hat

Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of enterpriseopen 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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