QA automation engineer for k0rdent KCM team (Contractor for 6 months.)
QA automation engineer for k0rdent KCM team (Contractor for 6 months.)
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Job Description
Testing Strategy & Leadership
Contribute to driving the overall QA strategy for Kubernetes and cloud-native environments aligning quality goals with business objectives and release deadlines.
Evaluate and champion best-in-class testing best practices and frameworks for distributed systems.
Lead risk analysis and test planning for large-scale multi-cloud infrastructure and container orchestration.
Architecting Test Systems
Architect test frameworks and infrastructure for validating microservices and infrastructure components in multi-cluster and hybrid-cloud environments.
Oversee the design of complex test scenarios simulating production-like workloads resource scaling failure injection and recovery across distributed clusters.
Automation & Scalability
Spearhead the development of scalable and maintainable test automation integrated with CI/CD (Jenkins GitHub Actions etc.).
Leverage Kubernetes APIs Helm and service mesh tools to build comprehensive automation coverage including system health failover behavior and network resilience.
Promote test infrastructure-as-code and drive IaC forward on the team making sure the infrastructure code is repeatable extensible and reliable.
Mentorship & Technical Influence
Mentor QA engineers and developers in advanced testing techniques such as: risk-based testing chaos engineering performance and load testing etc.
Serve as the QA authority in design reviews production readiness assessments and incident retrospectives(escaped defects).
Collaborate with and devops engineers to refine monitoring alerting and debugging strategies for testing automation being run in CI/CD.
Quality Advocacy & Continuous Improvement
Establish quality gates release readiness metrics and data driven feedback loops to ensure released software is production quality.
Drive initiatives to integrate performance security and chaos testing into the development lifecycle.
Advocate for a culture of quality across teams and influence architecture decisions with testing in mind.
Qualifications :
Education
Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related field.
Experience10 years in software testing or quality engineering roles with 4 years focused on Kubernetes cloud-native applications and distributed systems.
Proven leadership experience in building and scaling test strategies in enterprise-grade environments.
Technical Proficiency
Deep understanding of Kubernetes internals cluster lifecycle management Helm service meshes (e.g. Istio or Linkerd) and network policies.
Strong scripting and automation capabilities (Python Pytest Bash etc.).
Familiarity with observability stacks (Prometheus Grafana Jaeger) Kubernetes security (RBAC secrets management) and performance benchmarking tools (e.g. K6).
Solid grounding in cloud architecture (AWS Azure GCP) infrastructure provisioning and containerized CI/CD.
Moderate to advanced linux knowledge and proficiency is required: Bash scripting and debugging systemd/logs networking/firewalling/routing certificate/PKI management containers (Docker/containerd) and Kubernetes tooling (kubectl/Helm with OCI registries GitOps/Flux) to install test and troubleshoot multi-cluster environments.
Leadership & Collaboration
Exceptional problem-solving and architectural thinking.
Experience influencing cross-functional teams and senior leadership.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills for technical and executive-level audiences.
Mentorship and coaching of 1 or more junior members on the team especially around testing fundamentals troubleshooting and automation.
Preferred Extras
Contributions to open-source Kubernetes or QA tooling projects.
Experience implementing chaos engineering in Kubernetes environments.
Certifications such as CKA CKAD or AWS Certified 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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Remote Work :
Yes
Employment Type :
Full-time
Employment Type
Remote
Company Industry
Department / Functional Area
Engineering
Key Skills
- Continuous Integration
- APIs
- Automotive software
- Test Cases
- Electrical Engineering
- Junit
- Distributed Control Systems
- Testng
- Java
- Test Automation
- Programmable Logic Controllers
- Selenium
