Senior Automation Software Tester, MSR team

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

📋 Description

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

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

• Lead risk assessments and test planning for large-scale, multi-cloud registries, infrastructure, and container orchestration.

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

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

• Create scalable and sustainable test automation integrated with CI/CD processes, utilizing tools like Jenkins and GitHub Actions.

• Utilize Kubernetes APIs, Helm, and service mesh tools to automate coverage of system health, failover behavior, and network resilience.

• Encourage the development of repeatable, extensible, and dependable test infrastructure-as-code.

• 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 mechanisms.

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

• Champion a culture of quality and influence 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.

• At least 4 years dedicated to Kubernetes, cloud-native applications, and distributed systems.

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

• In-depth knowledge of Kubernetes internals, cluster lifecycle management, Helm, service meshes (like Istio or Linkerd), and network policies.

• Strong skills in scripting and automation (Python, Pytest, Bash, etc.).

• Familiarity with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger), Kubernetes security (RBAC, secrets management), and performance benchmarking tools (e.g., K6).

• Solid understanding of cloud architecture (AWS, Azure, GCP), infrastructure provisioning, and containerized CI/CD practices.

• Moderate to advanced knowledge of Linux and proficiency is required.

• Skills in 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).

• Outstanding problem-solving skills and architectural thinking.

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

• Excellent verbal and written communication abilities for both technical and executive-level audiences.

• Experience in mentoring and coaching one or more junior team members.

• Preferred: Contributions to open-source Kubernetes or QA tooling initiatives.

• Preferred: Experience with chaos engineering implementation in Kubernetes environments.

• Preferred: Certifications such as CKA, CKAD, or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer.

🏝️ Benefits

• Work within a global, collaborative, and remote-first culture.

• Opportunities for professional development and training.

• Participation in conferences and working groups.

• Customized workstation (macOS, Windows).

• Competitive compensation package.

• Performance-based incentives.

• Opportunities for career advancement.