Associate Quality Engineer

About the Job

The Red Hat Quality Engineering (QE) team is looking for an Associate Quality Engineer to join our Red Hat Certificate System QE team. In this role, you'll have the opportunity to make a difference in the way identity management works. You'll create and carry out test plans, research new features, and develop automated tests. You’ll need to have the ability to think creatively and adapt to rapid change, as well as the willingness to learn new things.

What will you do?

• Work with the complete identity management solutions portfolio and be responsible for the delivery of Red Hat Certificate System

• Create and review test planning or sprint planning and suggest improvements for product planning processes

• Develop new automated and manual tests, and maintain existing tests

• Participate in and perform root cause analysis of issues to get a starting point to address problems

• Take responsibility for Red Hat Certificate System’s successful testing in a timely manner

• Analyze and prioritize quality risks and identify tests required to mitigate them

• Contribute to upstream automation and provide demos of the solutions and technologies

• Help team lead to delegate and support the team working on Red Hat Certificate System

What will you bring?

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science or a related engineering field or relevant professional experience

• Proficient written and verbal communication skills in English

• Ability to design and code complex test cases and code or contribute code to frameworks which simplify test development and automation solutions

• Ability to assist in or perform root cause analysis of issues possibly spanning multiple components and subsystems, and develop reproducers

• Solid skills and background in Linux

• Deep knowledge of python programming and shell scripting

• Familiarity with Ansible playbooks

• Ability to build solid relations in the team and encourage other team members to do the same; ability to lead by example

• Ability to help establish consensus among all stakeholders in the wider team to achieve a goal

The following are considered a plus:

• Well-versed in trends and technologies in Public Key Infrastructure

• Knowledge of containers

About Red Hat
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