Senior Automation Software Tester

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Bulgaria.

📋 Description

• Contribute to the comprehensive QA strategy for Mirantis Secure Registry, Kubernetes, and cloud-native ecosystems.

• Assess and advocate for testing practices and frameworks tailored for distributed systems.

• Spearhead risk analysis and test planning for expansive, multi-cloud registries, infrastructure, and container orchestration.

• Design test frameworks and infrastructure for microservices and infrastructure elements in multi-cluster and hybrid-cloud settings.

• Create intricate test scenarios that mimic production workloads, including scaling, failure injection, and recovery across distributed clusters.

• Develop scalable and maintainable test automation integrated with CI/CD platforms such as Jenkins and GitHub Actions.

• Utilize Kubernetes APIs, Helm, and service mesh tools to enhance automation coverage for system health, failover, and network resilience.

• Advocate for a repeatable, extensible, and reliable infrastructure-as-code testing framework.

• Mentor QA engineers and developers on risk-based, chaos, performance, and load testing methodologies.

• Act as the QA authority during design reviews, production readiness assessments, and incident retrospectives.

• Collaborate with DevOps engineers to strategize monitoring, alerting, and debugging for CI/CD test automation.

• Set quality gates, release-readiness metrics, and data-driven feedback mechanisms.

• Incorporate performance, security, and chaos testing throughout the development lifecycle.

• Promote a culture of quality and impact architectural decisions with testing considerations.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline.

• Over 10 years of experience in software testing or quality engineering roles.

• More than 4 years dedicated to Kubernetes, cloud-native applications, and distributed systems.

• Demonstrated leadership in developing and scaling test strategies in enterprise-level environments.

• In-depth knowledge of Kubernetes internals, cluster lifecycle management, Helm, service meshes, and network policies.

• Strong expertise in scripting and automation using Python, Pytest, and Bash.

• Familiarity with tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger, RBAC, secrets management, and K6.

• Solid foundation in AWS, Azure, GCP, infrastructure provisioning, and containerized CI/CD practices.

• Moderate to advanced proficiency in Linux systems.

• Skills in Bash scripting and debugging, as well as understanding systemd/logs, networking, firewalling, and routing.

• Experience with Certificate/PKI management, Docker/containerd, kubectl/Helm with OCI registries, and GitOps/Flux.

• Outstanding problem-solving abilities and architectural insight.

• Experience in influencing cross-functional teams and senior leadership.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

• Proven ability to mentor and coach one or more junior team members.

• Contributions to open-source Kubernetes or QA tooling projects are highly desirable.

• Preferred experience in implementing chaos engineering in Kubernetes environments.

• CKA, CKAD, or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer certifications are preferred.

🏝️ Benefits

• Engage in a global, collaborative, remote-first work culture.

• Access to professional development and training opportunities.

• Participate in conferences and working groups.

• Enjoy a customized workstation (macOS or Windows).

• Receive competitive compensation.

• Benefit from performance incentives.

• Explore opportunities for career advancement.

• Contribute to an environment of open-source innovation.

• Experience continuous growth opportunities.