Senior/Software Quality Engineer - Content Availability (Brno Office, Czech Republic) - Red Hat

The Content Availability (CAT) team is looking for a Senior Quality Engineer or Quality Engineer to join us in Brno. In this role, you'll have the opportunity to make a difference in the way Red Hat content is delivered to customers.  You will gain a deep understanding of Content Delivery Network and related technologies and the way it’s used to deliver Red Hat products to customers. You will make sure our solutions fulfill the highest possible enterprise quality, performance, usability, and supportability criteria compared to competing offerings. As a Principal Quality Engineer, you will serve as the last instance before content is released to the public. You'll serve as a mentor to others and advise them on creating and implementing test plans, researching new features, and developing automated tests. We'll need you to have the ability to think creatively and adapt to rapid change and the willingness to learn new things.

What you will do

• You will work with a large portfolio of Red Hat products including Red Hat Enterprise Linux and will be responsible for verifying that correct artifacts such as software packages or images are delivered via the CDN.
• Create and review test plans and suggest improvements for product planning processes
• Develop new automated tests; design and develop new test frameworks and automation; analyze current solutions and suggest improvements
• Evaluate all relevant information from stakeholders and help to make decisions on planning/triage meetings
• Help your team gather customer use cases to identify the most troubling components by talking to program managers and solution architects
• Serve as a point of contact for other team members and help guide them to effectively resolve issues with testing; participate in QE goals and make sure deliverables are met by all of QE
• Contribute features to upstream and give technical presentations at conferences

What you will bring

• Experience in Quality Engineering
• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science or a related engineering field, or relevant professional experience
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills in English
• Well-versed in solutions available for coding tests, new automation, and knowledge about their pluses and minuses; ability to perform code reviews and suggest enhancements based on best practices
• Ability to assist in analyzing customer issues and guide other team members through performing root cause analysis; excellent abilities in discovering issues and performing root causes across subsystems and products
• Ability to write whole test plans with all the necessary items which should be present; ability to identify gaps in current test coverage and close them and suggest and implement improvements to current test process
• Excellent skills and background in Linux
• Ability to build solid relations in the team and encourage other team members to do the same; ability to lead by example

About Red Hat

Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions, using a community-powered approach to deliver high-performing Linux, cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. Spread across 40+ countries, our associates work flexibly across work environments, from in-office, to office-flex, to fully remote, depending on the requirements of their role. Red Hatters are encouraged to bring their best ideas, no matter their title or tenure. We're a leader in open source because of our open and inclusive environment. We hire creative, passionate people ready to contribute their ideas, help solve complex problems, and make an impact.

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