Software Architect jobs in Hickory, NC

About the job

Quality engineers at Red Hat are intrigued by how things work and constantly look for ways to make them better. They are not just testers; they are also developers who design, automate, and find creative ways to solve potential problems. At Red Hat, you can flex your software development skills differently. 

The Red Hat Service Mesh team is looking for a Senior Quality Engineer to join us. In this role, you will work on Red Hat’s OpenShift Service Mesh product and the related technologies, including containers, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Istio, and Envoy proxy etc. You'll be required to interpret quality requirements for Service Mesh customer use cases and develop innovative automated solutions for testing real-world customer workflows in test environments based on OpenShift, Service Mesh setups, multiple clusters, etc. Test codes will be used by 

Red Hat is an open organization, where good ideas matter more than rank or tenure, and you can be a part of our unique culture. We are guided by the Open Decision Framework and Open Management Practices while also celebrating diversity and inclusion. Regardless of your role, you will have the freedom to showcase your leadership skills and your ability to bring innovative solutions to complex problems.

What you will do

• Design, develop, and maintain / extend automated test suites

• Collaborate with your team members and other internal teams across the globe

• Explore, find, and document new bugs in the product using JIRA

• Review and verify bug fixes in cooperation with the development team

• Explore customer cases and help the development team replicating issues and scenarios

• Carry product from planning phase to release to customers

• Participate in the Istio community and contribute to the Istio open source project

• Derive test cases / steps from upstream open source project documentation

• Work in a fast-paced agile environment

What you will bring

• 5 years of experience in software testing and automation development

• 3 years of experience in programming languages such as Golang, C , Python or demonstrated ability to learn and apply these languages

• Knowledge of containers and containers orchestration

• Experience working with cloud providers

• Experience working with Version Control Systems (git) 

• Ability and desire to learn new technologies and tools

• Ability to prioritize tasks and work independently

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English

Nice to have:

• Familiarity with Networking concepts

• Familiarity with Open Source projects and contributions.

• Experience with Linux and bash scripting

• Knowledge of CI/CD tooling and mechanisms such as Jenkins and Github action

• Experience with Service Mesh architecture and related technologies

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