Software Quality Engineer - Managed Openshift jobs at Red Hat in Canada, Toronto

Primary Job Responsibilities

• Provide complex contributions to upstream projects like Knative, Kubernetes, KEDA, Kserve, CloudEvents, BuildPacks, Red Hat OpenShift and help technically mentor other team members

• Work in the upstream community to expand the Knative ecosystem (eg. API design, specifications, controllers, testing)

• Contribute to the Red Hat Operators

• Contribute to the development of design patterns, tooling, and best practice guides for developing serverless components

• Work with other team members on tooling, and processes such as CI/CD and productization

• Interact with globally distributed open source project teams, and communities

• Collaborate with the Product Manager, as well as the Quality Engineering, Program Management, and Documentation teams

• Evangelize upstream projects and Red Hat offerings through conference talks, blog posts, articles etc.

Required Skills

• 5+ years of software development experience

• Advanced programming experience ideally in Go

• Experience with containers and Kubernetes platform development

• Solid understanding of the principles of reliable distributed systems

• Written and verbal English communication skills

• Passion for open source software, positive attitude, and a desire to share ideas openly

• Other tools a candidate should be familiar and comfortable with include: Git, Github/Pull Requests, JIRA, Linux, CI Systems

The following are considered a plus:

• Experience with networking technology like Istio or Envoy is considered

• Experience working on a distributed team with an agile methodology

• Experience with other cloud vendors and technologies, particularly Azure Functions, AWS, or GKE is recommended

What you will do:

• Execute functional, integration, regression, performance and scalability tests using open source tools for OpenShift.

• Create detailed, comprehensive, and well-structured test plans, test cases, and test reports.

• Design, develop and maintain test automation using Golang and Python, analyze test results and guarantee test efficiency. Implement automation tools as needed.

• Work in a fast paced environment, be goal-oriented. Proactively communicates with multiple stakeholders across teams to implement new ideas and improvements.

• Oversee potential problems and devise mechanisms to solve them timely.

• Actively suggest and implement continuous improvement in the workflow.

• Work in a global team, embrace diversity and culture differences.

What you will bring:

• 3+ years professional experience working as a Software Quality Engineer.

• Experienced in at least one object-oriented programming language

• Experienced in API test automation

• Experienced in Bash.

• Experience in maintaining and resolving issues under Linux.

• Rich experience in troubleshooting and root cause analysis.

• Familiar with agile testing methodologies and techniques.

• Must be a quick learner.

• Proven written and spoken English skills.

Nice to Have

• Knowledge with OpenShift is a plus.

• Experience with Kubernetes and Containers is a plus

• Knowledge of Amazon Web Services (AWS) EC2, Google Compute Engine (GCE), or Microsoft Azure

What you will do:

• Win the confidence of our customers through the successful delivery of discovery, analysis and design workshops that shape and influence the customer’s architecture design decisions to align with the Red Hat solution.

• Lead consulting teams through successful customer pilot and production deployments, workload onboarding and ongoing lifecycle management

• Work closely with product business units, product engineering, consulting, support, and sales to ensure a world-class customer experience with Red Hat’s products.

• Contribute to the development of repeatable methodologies and tools designed to scale Red Hat’s services capabilities, promote repeatable customer engagements, and lower delivery risk.

What you will bring:

• Prior experience working in a consulting and architecture roles

• Good customer-facing skills; ability to present to customers and lead customer interactions

• Excellent knowledge of infrastructure technologies on hands-on delivery and architecture levels

• Experience implementing virtualization and container technologies in an enterprise setting and with enterprise-wide deployments

• Knowledge of Red Hat’s infrastructure solutions like Red Hat OpenStack Platform, Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

• Willingness to travel across the region

• Experience onboarding applications and application teams onto cloud or container platforms introducing DevOps, continuous delivery (CD) and application lifecycle management

• Excellent written and verbal language skills in English

• Red Hat Certifications are considered a plus

• Experience with AI solutions is a big plus