Principal Quality Engineer

Job Description

Company Description

At Red Hat, we connect an innovative community of customers, partners, and contributors to deliver an open source stack of trusted, high-performing solutions. We offer cloud, Linux, middleware, storage, and virtualization technologies, together with award-winning global customer support, consulting, and implementation services. Red Hat is a rapidly growing company supporting more than 90% of Fortune 500 companies.

Job summary

The Red Hat Quality Engineering (QE) team is looking for a Principal Quality Engineer to join our Red Hat Ceph Storage QE Test team in Bangalore, India. In this role, you will develop test automation for an entire offering within our extensive portfolio of innovative storage technologies. To do so successfully, you'll first need to be an expert in the offering architectures, learning how these architectures integrate with other solutions and the ways in which they are used by our customers. As a Principle Quality Engineer, you will serve as a technical mentor for the entire quality assurance (QA) team. You’ll also interact with customers, partners, and management at Red Hat. This is a great opportunity to make significant contributions and improvements to Red Hat's QE processes and infrastructure while also participating in upstream testing efforts in the open source community.

Primary job responsibilities

• Define automation test strategies, methodologies, processes, and procedures
• Investigate and recommend test architecture and related infrastructure pieces to support the QE methodology, process, and procedures
• Analyze source code of an offering and propose appropriate test strategies
• Oversee the work of other storage automation team members
• Participate in and contribute to weekly team meetings
• Interact with external partners and customers regarding testing strategies
• Schedule and lead reviews with senior management
• Provide accurate and timely status of automated testing efforts and quality statistics to the engineering team
• Represent the quality of an offering and customer experience through dashboards, scorecards, and recommendations in all required leadership and offering forums
• Implement software quality initiatives and transformation programs as required, by deriving strategic plans; lead and guide junior team members to help them achieve on-time results

Required skills

• Bachelor's or master's degree in IT, computer science, or electrical or electronics engineering with 10+ years of related experience
• Expertise in programming languages like Python, Perl, Java, and C or C++
• Solid understanding and working knowledge of Linux environment
• Domain expertise in storage-related technologies including block-level storage and file systems
• Expertise in defining and analyzing metrics and managing technical debt
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Experience configuring and implementing scripts using performance test tools like Apache JMeter, Tsung, Locust, LoadRunner, or COSBench
• Experience testing the performance of RESTful APIs
• Experience handling test data in various formats, including JSON, XML, CSV, etc., while understanding data storage, encoding, encryption, data transformation, and related concepts
• Ability to collaborate effectively
• Excellent technical skills and the ability to lead both members on your team as well as across teams toward performant, scalable, and high-quality solutions to real business problems

The following are considered a plus:

• Experience with continuous integration (CI) and automation frameworks
• Background in test-driven development or agile methodologies
• Prior experience testing software-defined storage solutions and offerings like Red Hat Ceph Storage, container solutions, Red Hat OpenShift, and Kubernetes
• Experience working on latest cloud technologies like Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure
• Familiarity with open source offerings and technologies
• Focus on delivering customer value with the ability to directly connect engineering decisions and actions to the value
• Solid understanding of test automation technology and frameworks related to storage domain

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