Senior QA Engineer â Edge Kubernetes Platform (9993)
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Posted on:
30+ days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
We are seeking a Senior QA Engineer to ensure the quality reliability and performance of our Edge Kubernetes Platform supporting both connected and air-gapped environments. This is a hands-on role where you will design and implement automated testing frameworks validate complex distributed edge systems and partner with engineering teams to deliver secure scalable and resilient platforms.
As a Senior QA Engineer you will own test strategy automation frameworks and quality processes for platform components with a focus on Kubernetes Rancher Gov stack and edge deployments.
Key Responsibilities
- End-to-End Test Strategy: Define and execute test plans covering functional integration performance upgrade and security testing for Kubernetes-based edge platforms.
- Automation Leadership: Build and extend automated test frameworks for UI API and platform-level validation (Selenium Cypress Playwright PyTest etc.).
- CI/CD Integration: Integrate automated test suites into CI/CD pipelines ensuring rapid reliable quality feedback.
- Platform & Edge Validation: Test Kubernetes clusters (upstream RKE2) in air-gapped and edge environments validating multi-cluster operations and lifecycle management.
- Upgrade & Resilience Testing: Design and execute tests for cluster upgrades workload orchestration and fault-tolerance scenarios.
- Performance & Scalability Testing: Conduct benchmarking load and stress tests to validate system reliability in resource-constrained edge environments.
- Security & Networking Validation: Partner with security and platform engineers to verify network segmentation access controls and zero-trust enforcement.
- Defect Management: Identify document and drive defect resolution across cross-functional teams.
- Process Improvement: Mentor QA engineers contribute to quality best practices and continuously evolve test strategies for distributed edge systems.
Qualifications
- 7 years of experience in software QA including 3 years in test automation for distributed or platform-level systems.
- Hands-on expertise with automation frameworks (Selenium Cypress Playwright PyTest or similar).
- Proven experience testing Kubernetes (upstream RKE2) Rancher and containerized microservices.
- Familiarity with air-gapped deployments edge environments and distributed system testing.
- Strong knowledge of CI/CD pipelines Docker and Linux systems.
- Experience with API testing tools (Postman REST Assured) and databases (SQL/NoSQL).
- Practical knowledge of performance/load testing tools (JMeter Locust Gatling).
- Excellent debugging analytical and communication skills with experience collaborating in agile teams.
Nice to Have
- Experience validating Rancher Gov stack GitOps (ArgoCD Fleet) or Helm-based deployments.
- Exposure to observability stacks (Prometheus Grafana Loki ELK).
- Familiarity with security testing frameworks (OWASP ZAP Burp Suite).
- Contributions to open-source QA frameworks or Kubernetes ecosystem projects.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Key Skills
- Corporate Communications
- Apache Commons
- Community Support
- Jira
- Java
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