Senior Automation Software Tester

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

📋 Description

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

• Assess and advocate for testing methodologies and frameworks applicable to distributed systems.

• Lead risk assessment and test planning for extensive, multi-cloud registry, infrastructure, and container orchestration.

• Design test frameworks and infrastructure tailored for microservices and infrastructure components in multi-cluster and hybrid-cloud setups.

• Supervise intricate test scenarios that mimic production-like workloads, scaling, failure injection, and recovery across distributed clusters.

• Create scalable and maintainable test automation integrated with CI/CD processes.

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

• Advocate for repeatable, extensible, and dependable infrastructure-as-code practices.

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

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

• Collaborate with DevOps engineers on strategies for monitoring, alerting, and debugging within CI/CD test automation.

• Establish quality gates, release-readiness metrics, and data-driven feedback loops.

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

• Champion quality across teams and influence architectural decisions with testing considerations in mind.

⛳️ 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.

• At least 4 years of experience focused on Kubernetes, cloud-native applications, and distributed systems.

• Demonstrated leadership experience in developing and scaling test strategies within enterprise-grade environments.

• Profound understanding of Kubernetes internals, cluster lifecycle management, Helm, service meshes, and network policies.

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

• Familiarity with Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger, Kubernetes security, RBAC, secrets management, and K6.

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

• Moderate to advanced proficiency with Linux.

• Experience with Bash scripting and debugging, systemd/logs, networking, firewalling/routing, certificate/PKI management, Docker/containerd, kubectl, Helm, OCI registries, and GitOps/Flux.

• Exceptional problem-solving skills and architectural thinking capability.

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

• Excellent verbal and written communication abilities.

• Mentorship and coaching experience with at least one junior team member.

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

• Experience in implementing chaos engineering within Kubernetes environments is preferred.

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

🏝️ Benefits

• Engage in a global, collaborative, remote-first culture that values initiative and execution.

• Opportunities for professional growth.

• Work alongside passionate, talented, and engaging colleagues.

• Participate in cutting-edge, open-source innovation.

• Attend conferences and working groups.

• Enjoy a customized workstation (macOS, Windows).

• Access to professional development and training resources.

• Competitive compensation package.

• Performance incentives available.

• Opportunities for career advancement.