Red hat Principal Software Quality Engineer 

Portugal, Porto 

312690564

Job Description:

Red Hat Software Engineering is looking for a Principal Software Quality Engineer to join our Secure Supply Chain organization in Portugal (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.

Primary Job Responsibilities:

Work with the following technologies on a day-to-day basis:

• 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

Required Skills:​

• Highly experienced with any programming language like Golang/Python-Must

• Experience with ​Kubernetes or OpenShift- Must

• Linux/UNIX operating systems-Must

• Expertise with test automation frameworks like gauge/pytest/ginkgo- at least one, pytest preferred.

• Experience with UI testing-Must

• Experience with CI/CD-Must

• Knowledge of the UNIX -Advantage

Nice to have Skills:

• 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)