Staff QA Engineer [Remote]

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Job Description

As a Staff QA Engineer, you will be part of a world-class engineering team. You will help improve the quality, performance, and resiliency of products like StackState and Rancher. You must have experience with observability and monitoring, as well as DevOps practices and continuous integration environments. You must be a quick learner and can get up to speed with the latest Kubernetes and container technologies. You must be knowledgeable and passionate about quality and automation. You will develop comprehensive test suites and strive for automation coverage of key product features. You will push the envelope of the technology on multiple fronts and will be well versed in programming languages like Java, Scala, or Go.
 

Responsibilities

• Designs quality assurance and test processes for portions and subsystems of end-user application

• Analyze, design and create test scripts, coding, automation, and integration activities required based on general objectives and knowledge of overall architecture of product or solution.

• Writes and executes complete testing plans, protocols, and documentation for assigned portions of application; identifies and debugs, and creates solutions for issues with code and integration into software and firmware architecture.

• Collaborates and communicates with management, internal, and outsourced development partners regarding test status, project progress, and issue resolution.

• Develop and keep our automated testing frameworks up to date.

• Work closely with development teams to integrate testing into the development lifecycle.

• Participate in daily stand-ups and working in an agile development environment.

Preferred Experience & Skills

• Typically 8-10 years experience

• Experience with Kubernetes

• Experience in observability and monitoring, covering logs, traces, metrics, events, alerts, and dashboards, using commercial tools like Datadog or New Relic, or open-source solutions such as Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Elasticsearch, Kibana or Jaeger.

• Experience in building maintainable and well tested backend and UI test automation code

• Software testing methodology, including writing and execution of test plans, debugging, and testing scripts and tools.

• Fluency in languages like Java, Scala, and Go

• Experience in DevOps process and CI/CD pipeline tools like Jenkins, Drone, Bamboo, etc.

• Experience leading test projects

• Experience leading and mentoring test teams

• Comfortable in working within a Linux environment

Personal Attributes

• Outstanding debugging, problem solving, and root cause analysis skills

• Passionate about quality and well documented code and process

• Ability to work cross functionally with all levels of engineers

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