SeniorLead QA Engineer – Cloud & Storage

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Senior/Lead QA Engineer with expertise in both cloud-native platforms and storage systems. This role combines deep technical proficiency with leadership in test strategy automation and quality advocacy. You will play a key part in ensuring our solutions meet the highest standards of reliability scalability and performance across storage subsystems distributed systems and Kubernetes-based environments.

Key Responsibilities

Test Strategy & Quality Leadership

• Define and drive QA strategies across storage cloud-native and distributed environments.

• Lead risk analysis test planning and release readiness assessments.

• Establish quality gates release metrics and data-driven feedback loops to ensure production-grade releases.

• Advocate for a culture of quality and influence design and architecture decisions with testing in mind.

Test Infrastructure & Automation

• Develop improve and maintain scalable automated testing frameworks and infrastructure.

• Architect and manage test systems for validating storage microservices and hybrid-cloud workloads.

• Integrate automation into CI/CD pipelines (e.g. Jenkins GitHub Actions) ensuring reliability and maintainability.

• Apply Infrastructure-as-Code practices to create repeatable extensible and resilient test environments.

Advanced Testing & Continuous Improvement

• Execute functional non-functional integration system performance and failover testing.

• Simulate production-like workloads failure scenarios and recovery testing across distributed clusters.

• Integrate chaos performance and security testing into the development lifecycle.

• Collaborate with DevOps and engineering teams on monitoring debugging and improving resilience.

Mentorship & Collaboration

• Mentor junior QA engineers and developers in advanced testing techniques and automation practices.

• Serve as the QA authority in design reviews incident retrospectives and production readiness assessments.

• Work with geographically distributed teams on technical challenges and continuous quality improvements.

Qualifications :

• Experience: 710 years in software testing or quality engineering with 4 years in Kubernetes storage systems or distributed cloud-native applications.

• Programming & Automation: Strong skills in Python and shell scripting (Bash); experience with Pytest and test automation frameworks.
  
  Technical Proficiency:

  • Kubernetes (internals cluster lifecycle Helm service meshes).

  • Storage subsystems (SAN NAS Object SDS).

  • Linux/UNIX environments (networking system administration debugging).

  • CI/CD tools (Jenkins GitHub Actions) and Git.

  • REST APIs and observability stacks (Prometheus Grafana Jaeger).
     

• Soft Skills: Excellent English communication (written and verbal) leadership in cross-functional teams strong problem-solving and architectural thinking.
   

Preferred Extras

• Experience with OpenStack and public cloud providers (AWS Azure GCP).

• Contributions to open-source QA or Kubernetes projects.

• Familiarity with chaos engineering and performance benchmarking tools (e.g. K6).

• Relevant certifications (CKA CKAD AWS DevOps Engineer)

Additional Information :

What does Mirantis offer you
- Work with an established Silicon Valley leader in the cloud infrastructure industry;
- Work with exceptionally passionate talented and engaging colleagues helping Fortune 500 and Global 2000 customers implement next-generation cloud technologies;
- Be a part of cutting-edge open-source innovation;
- Thrive in the high-energy environment of a young company where openness collaboration risk-taking and continuous growth are valued;
- Professional development and training;
- Attend conferences and working groups;
- Company outings happy hours hackathons and tech talks;
- Receive a competitive compensation package with a strong benefits plan.

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