Red hat Senior Software Quality Engineer 

Ireland 

884881022

Senior Software Quality Engineer - Migration Toolkit for Virtualization

The Migration Toolkit for Virtualization (MTV) team is looking for a Senior Quality Engineer. In this role, you will work on Red Hat’s Migration Toolkit for Virtualization, built on Qemu, KVM, container technology and the Kubernetes cluster management system. You'll be responsible for all aspects of quality for Red Hat MTV, including designing test plans, extending automation frameworks, and developing new automated tests for both back and front ends. You will make sure our solutions fulfill the highest possible enterprise quality, performance, usability, and supportability. As a Senior Quality Engineer, you will gain a deep technical understanding of a variety of popular technologies, including Virtualization, containers, Kubernetes, Red Hat OpenShift, etc.

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.

Job Responsibilities

• Execute manual and automated tests for MTV 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 for MTV 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

• Provide mentoring and leadership to junior Quality Engineers

Required Skills

• Testing experience working with globally distributed QE team members

• Bachelor's degree or higher, or equivalent in computer science or a related field

• 5+ years of professional experience working in QE or similar roles

• Familiarity with testing methodologies and techniques

• Knowledge of the Linux operating system (any distribution)

• Knowledge of Virtualization platforms

• Programming skills 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 CI/CD and Jenkins

• Knowledge of security testing

• Contributions to open source projects or publicly available code samplesDesign, develop and maintain automation frameworks and scripts with Ruby, Golang and Python for OpenShift testing and implementation