Sr. Staff Quality Assurance Engineer

Job Description Summary

Designs, programs, documents, tests, and fixes bugs involved in creating and maintaining applications and frameworks involved in a software release lifecycle resulting in a digital product. Impacts approaches, projects and programs in the functional area or affected business organization and ways of working. Impacts quality, efficiency and effectiveness of own team. Has significant input into priorities. Guided by professional practices and policies that are shaped by the role. The role has moderate autonomy, requiring high levels of operational judgment.

Position Overview:

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced and hands-on technical leader to lead our GridOS testing efforts to ensure the quality and reliability of our software products. The ideal candidate will have comprehensive knowledge and understanding of all aspects of test engineering, including test automation, automated acceptance testing, stress testing, soak testing, performance testing, and reliability testing. Additionally, the candidate must possess strong leadership and management skills to oversee and mentor our current QA engineers.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with product leadership and engineering team leads to develop and implement comprehensive test strategies and plans to ensure the quality and reliability of our software products.
• Design and implement automated test suites to validate the scalability, resilience, and performance of our containerized applications running on Kubernetes under widely varying conditions.
• Design, develop, and maintain automated test suites for functional, integration, performance, and reliability testing.
• Define test profiles to right-size test runs to support build promotion stages (e.g. nightly, weekly, release).
• Perform database performance testing to identify and address bottlenecks and ensure query performance.
• Collaborate closely with development teams to identify testing requirements, automate repetitive tasks, and integrate testing processes seamlessly into the CI/CD pipeline.
• Lead and mentor a team of QA engineers, providing guidance, support, and training as needed to ensure their continued growth and development.
• Collaborate closely with development teams to identify testing requirements, prioritize test efforts, and resolve issues in a timely manner.
• Stay updated on the latest trends and best practices in test engineering and continuously seek opportunities to improve our testing processes and methodologies.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Extensive experience in automated test engineering with a strong focus on cloud-native technologies, Kubernetes, and microservices architecture.
• Hands-on experience with containerization technologies (e.g., Docker), container orchestration platforms (e.g., Kubernetes), and cloud hyper-scalers (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP).
• A passion for driving innovation and excellence in testing practices within a cloud-native environment.
• Strong proficiency in test automation frameworks/tools such as Gauge, JMeter, Selenium and Chaos Monkey.
• Strong understanding and experience building, scaling, and testing cloud-native applications.
• Excellent leadership and communication skills, with the ability to effectively mentor and manage a team of QA engineers.
• Strong problem-solving abilities and attention to detail, with a passion for delivering high-quality software products.
• Experience working in an Agile development environment is preferred.

Benefits:

• Competitive salary and benefits package
• Opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies in a dynamic and collaborative environment
• Career growth and advancement opportunities
• Flexible work hours and remote work options