Senior Automation Software Tester, MSR Team

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

📋 Description

• Testing Strategy & Leadership: Play a key role in shaping the overall QA strategy for Mirantis Secure Registry, Kubernetes, and cloud-native environments, ensuring that quality objectives align with business goals and release timelines.

• Assess and advocate for top-tier testing practices and frameworks designed for distributed systems.

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

• Architecting Test Systems: Design test frameworks and infrastructure to validate microservices and infrastructure components within multi-cluster and hybrid-cloud settings.

• Supervise the creation of intricate test scenarios that replicate production-like workloads, resource scaling, failure injection, and recovery across distributed clusters.

• Automation & Scalability: Lead the development of scalable and maintainable test automation integrated with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, etc.).

• Utilize Kubernetes APIs, Helm, and service mesh tools to establish comprehensive automation coverage, encompassing system health, failover behavior, and network resilience.

• Advocate for test infrastructure-as-code and enhance IaC practices within the team, ensuring that the infrastructure code is repeatable, extensible, and reliable.

• Mentorship & Technical Influence: Guide QA engineers and developers in advanced testing methodologies, including risk-based testing, chaos engineering, performance, and load testing.

• Act as the QA authority in design reviews, production readiness evaluations, and incident retrospectives (escaped defects).

• Collaborate with DevOps engineers to refine monitoring, alerting, and debugging strategies for test automation executed in CI/CD.

• Quality Advocacy & Continuous Improvement: Establish quality gates, release readiness metrics, and data-driven feedback loops to ensure that the software released meets production standards.

• Propel initiatives to incorporate performance, security, and chaos testing into the development lifecycle.

• Promote a culture of quality across teams and influence architectural decisions with testing considerations.

⛳️ Requirements

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

• 10+ years of experience in software testing or quality engineering roles, including at least 4 years focused on 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 (e.g., Istio or Linkerd), and network policies.

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

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

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

• Moderate to advanced knowledge of Linux, including proficiency in Bash scripting and debugging, systemd/logs, networking/firewalling/routing, certificate/PKI management, containers (Docker/containerd), and Kubernetes tools (kubectl/Helm with OCI registries, GitOps/Flux) for installing, testing, and troubleshooting multi-cluster environments.

• Outstanding problem-solving abilities and architectural insight.

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

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, adaptable for both technical and executive-level audiences.

• Experience mentoring and coaching junior team members, particularly in testing fundamentals, troubleshooting, and automation.

🏝️ Benefits

• Work in a global, collaborative, remote-first culture that recognizes initiative and execution.

• Contribute significantly to shaping the future of cloud and AI modernization.

• Manage high-impact enterprise accounts with immediate growth opportunities.

• Collaborate with exceptionally passionate, talented, and engaging colleagues, assisting Fortune 500 and Global 2000 clients in implementing next-generation cloud technologies.

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

• Flourish in the dynamic environment of a young company where openness, collaboration, risk-taking, and continuous growth are prioritized.

• Attend conferences and participate in working groups.

• Enjoy a customized workstation (macOS, Windows).

• Access professional development and training opportunities.

• Receive competitive compensation, performance incentives, and prospects for advancement.