Red hat Software Quality Engineer 

India, Maharashtra, Pune 

157904041

About the Job:

The Red Hat Quality Engineering (QE) team is looking for a Software Quality Engineer to join us in India. In this role, you'll have the opportunity to make a difference in the way Red Hat Subscription Management tooling works and is tested. You will make sure our solutions fulfill the highest possible enterprise quality, performance, usability, and supportability criteria. As a Software Quality Engineer, you will help determine when our products are ready to be released to the public. You'll create and carry out test plans, research new features, and develop automated tests. We'll need you to have the ability to think creatively and adapt to rapid change, as well as the willingness to learn new things.

This role will be working on Red Hat Insights Resource Optimization Service. These services allow customers to visualize and optimize their costs on Public clouds and on-premise data centers. In this role you will work very closely with the development team and other quality engineers to develop and automate new test cases contributing to an already existing regression suite. You'll need to have the ability to think creatively and adapt to rapid change, as well as the willingness to learn new things.

What will you do:

• Participate actively in design reviews and story refinement to understand new features and bug fixes.

• Create test plans and test cases.

• Develop new automated and manual tests; develop and maintain automation frameworks.

• Help maintain and improve our continuous testing approach.

• Participate in/perform root cause analysis of issues to get a starting point to address problems.

• Take shared responsibility with one or two other Quality Engineers for a customer-facing application and help execute its successful testing in a timely manner.

• Provide release readiness information to stakeholders. Be able to communicate your risk assessment to them.

• Learn and adapt to new technologies quickly.

• Maintenance of tests repositories and development tools repositories

What will you bring:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. English skills for reading technical documents and conversing with engineers located globally via Slack communication tools is a must. The qualifications listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Demonstration of these skills can lead to QE ownership of a component in Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions:

• Education/Experience: Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science or a related engineering field, or relevant professional experience

• Ability to design and code complex test cases and to code (or contribute code to) frameworks which simplify test development and automation

• Ability to write complex test plans for a features and provide usable time estimates for completion

• Ability to identify potential risks connected to test development of assigned feature and mitigate them

• Experience in automated API testing, using a framework like pytest

• Automation experience with Python

• UI testing experience using Selenium

• Experience with Agile software development practices

• Source code control (GIT preferred)

• Solid written and verbal communication skills in English

The following are considered a plus:

• Experience with Kubernetes/OpenShift and Linux

• Demonstrable experience with CI/CD (Jenkins is a plus)

• Experience working on cloud provider platforms like AWS, Azure, and GCP

• GUI testing using Cypress, or Playwright

• Knowledge of Kubernetes, Containers, or OpenShift

• Bug tracking tools (Bugzilla / Jira preferred)