Contractor QA Automation/DevOps Engineer

Testing Strategy & Leadership

• Contribute to driving the overall QA strategy for Kubernetes and cloud-native environments.
• Evaluate and champion best-in-class testing best practices and frameworks for distributed systems.
• Lead risk analysis and test planning for large-scale, multi-cloud infrastructure and container orchestration.

Architecting Test Systems

• Architect test frameworks and infrastructure for validating microservices and infrastructure components in multi-cluster and hybrid-cloud environments.
• Oversee the design of complex test scenarios simulating production-like workloads.

Automation & Scalability

• Spearhead the development of scalable and maintainable test automation integrated with CI/CD.
• Leverage Kubernetes APIs, Helm, and service mesh tools to build comprehensive automation coverage.
• Promote test infrastructure-as-code.

Mentorship & Technical Influence

• Mentor QA engineers and developers in advanced testing techniques.
• Serve as the QA authority in design reviews.
• Collaborate with and devops engineers to refine monitoring, alerting, and debugging strategies for testing automation being run in CI/CD.

Quality Advocacy & Continuous Improvement

• Establish quality gates, release readiness metrics, and data driven feedback loops to ensure released software is production quality.
• Drive initiatives to integrate performance, security, and chaos testing into the development lifecycle.
• Advocate for a culture of quality across teams and influence architecture decisions with testing in mind.

Experience

• 10+ years in software testing or quality engineering roles, with 4+ years focused on Kubernetes, cloud-native applications, and distributed systems.
• Proven leadership experience in building and scaling test strategies in enterprise-grade environments.

Technical Proficiency

• Deep understanding of Kubernetes internals, cluster lifecycle management, Helm, service meshes, and network policies.
• Strong scripting and automation capabilities (Python, Pytest, Bash, etc.).
• Familiarity with observability stacks, Kubernetes security, and performance benchmarking tools.
• Solid grounding in cloud architecture, infrastructure provisioning, and containerized CI/CD.
• Moderate to advanced linux knowledge and proficiency is required.

Leadership & Collaboration

• Exceptional problem-solving and architectural thinking.
• Experience influencing cross-functional teams and senior leadership.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills for technical and executive-level audiences.
• Mentorship and coaching of 1 or more junior members on the team.

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