Posted almost 5 years ago

• *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 Entitlements Engineering team is looking for a Quality Engineer with passion for open source software to join us in Durham, NC. In this role, you will work on a new project as part of an overall Entitlements initiative. You'll need to have outstanding technical and communication skills and experience with Python or other object-oriented technology. As a Quality Engineer, you'll also need to be comfortable working in an agile, fast-paced, and team-oriented environment.

• *Primary job responsibilities**

+ Perform manual testing of offerings and features in accordance with prepared test plans and cases

+ Communicate with feature developers to gain understanding and knowledge of assigned features

+ Create test plans under the guidance of a senior quality engineer or team lead

+ Verify defect fixes and write up new defects

+ Participate in and contribute to weekly team meetings

+ Report accurate and regular results of test efforts to the Quality Engineering (QE) team lead

+ Make use of test infrastructure tools adopted by the QE team and broader organization

+ Participate in the creation and maintenance of test environments used by developers and QE teams to test integration with various Red Hat's solutions

+ Become familiarized with automation test frameworks and join other quality engineers in automating test cases

+ Provide recommendations for feature or process improvements

• *Required skills**

+ 3+ years of software testing experience

+ Experience with testing web-based applications, preferably through a REST API

+ Experience with solutions like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Microsoft Azure, or Red Hat OpenShift

+ Familiarity with various deployment models including cloud, virtualization, and containers

+ Experience with GitHub, GitLab, or other collaborative code forges

+ Passion for open source technologies; experience with open source communities and development is a plus

+ Advanced problem-solving and critical thinking skills

+ Understanding of quality assurance (QA) and engineering concepts

+ Understanding of the Python programming language

+ Practical experience using Linux operating system including Bash scripting

+ Fluent written and verbal language skills in English

+ Knowledge of continuous integration (CI) systems like Jenkins or Travis

The following are considered a plus:

+ Understanding of the Ruby programming language

+ Familiarity with free and open source software and open source automation tools

+ Experience with a variety of bug tracking systems

+ Understanding of advanced networking concepts

+ Red Hat certifications like Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA), Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE), or Red Hat Certified Specialist in Virtualization

+ Experience performing web user interface (UI) automation using Selenium

+ Experience planning and implementing testing automation jobs and pipelines using Jenkins as the CI system

+ Experience writing Red Hat Ansible Automation or similar technologies

+ Understanding of various subscriptions modules, including cloud-based subscriptions

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• *Job ID** _69940_
• *Category** _Quality Engineering_