Principal Software Quality Engineer

About the Job :

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 this video.

We are seeking a Principal Software Quality Engineer to join a group of passionate professionals developing and supporting the components and technologies that comprise OpenShift's control plane. This role demands deep technical expertise, strong leadership, and the ability to hit the ground running. You will collaborate with Product Management, Software Development Engineers, and Software Quality Engineers to gain a deep understanding of features, customer use cases, and technical implementations. This knowledge will enable you to design real-world test plans, extending automation frameworks, building new regression test suites, and drive the integration of quality-driven methodologies throughout the software development lifecycle.

You will be responsible for developing and executing both manual and automated tests to accelerate the testing process and improve product quality. Our Quality Engineers are not just black-box testers; they have a deep understanding of software internals, can debug issues, and write automated tests using scripting and user-level automation tools. As a senior member of the team, you will be involved in strategic and process improvement efforts to continually improve the way the team works. As an individual contributor, you’ll take ownership of tasks from inception to completion with minimal oversight, while collaborating with other engineers to ensure best practices and high-quality deliverables.

If you're passionate about building quality solutions for distributed systems, solving complex challenges, and contributing to the ongoing success of OpenShift, we invite you to join our team.

What you will do:

• Architect and lead implementation of new features and identify quality improvements for OCP

• Provide technical vision and leadership on critical and high-impact teams

• Ensure non-functional requirements including security, resiliency, and maintainability are met

• Write unit and integration tests and work with engineers to ensure product quality

• Use CI/CD best practices to deliver solutions and support productization

• Contribute to a culture of continuous improvement by sharing recommendations and technical knowledge with team members

• Collaborate with product management, other engineering, and cross-functional teams to analyze and clarify business requirements

• Communicate effectively to stakeholders and team members to ensure proper visibility of development efforts

• Mentor, influence, and coach a distributed team of engineers

• Give thoughtful and prompt code reviews

What you will bring:

• Expertise in designing, developing, and maintaining test environments and automated test suites

• Testing experience working with globally distributed QE team members

• Bachelor's degree or higher, or equivalent, in software engineering or a related field

• Minimum of 10 years of professional experience working in QE or software engineering

• Familiarity with Agile testing methodologies and techniques

• Familiarity with Linux containers and container orchestration tools like OpenShift and Kubernetes

• Knowledge of the Linux operating system (any distribution)

• Knowledge of networking

• Experience with continuous integration (CI) and Jenkins

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

• Motivated and dedicated to learning and collaboration

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

• Experience with source code management tools such as Git

• Excellent system understanding and troubleshooting capabilities

• Technical leadership acumen in a global team environment

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English

The following will be considered a plus:

• Experience with development for public cloud services such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) EC2, Google Compute Engine (GCE), or Microsoft Azure

• Direct experience with Linux containers, Kubernetes, Red Hat OpenStack Platform, or Red Hat OpenShift

• Knowledge of security testing

• Understanding of how Open Source and Free Software communities work

• Contributions to open source projects or publicly available code samples

• Experience with Pipelines technologies such as Kubeflow Pipelines, Argo, or Tekton

• Experience with Polarion

• Experience with CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions and Jenkins

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