Senior Software Quality Engineer for Red Hat!

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Job Summary:

The Red Hat Quality Engineering (QE) team is looking for a Senior Software Quality Engineer who is intrigued by how things work and constantly looking for ways to make them better to join us in Brno, Czech Republic. In this role, you will not just be a tester, you will be a developer who designs and automates creative ways to break software to identify potential problems. Find out more about what it is like to work in Red Hat QE directly from our engineers. You should be someone who enjoys automating repetitive tasks and getting deep into source code and systems to perform root cause analyses of issues, who advocates for high standards of software engineering, and who is comfortable switching between these tasks. As a Senior Software Quality Engineer, you’ll need to have the ability to think creatively and adapt to rapid change, as well as the willingness to learn new things. You’ll also need to have solid software automation background and be comfortable with testing Software-as-a-Service (SaaS).

Primary Job Responsibilities:

- Own design reviews and automated testing for major features of and bug fixes for our offerings; create and carry out test plans, research new features, develop automated tests, and maintain and enhance test frameworks

- Serve as an internal advocate for our customers, providing data-driven product quality metrics to all major stakeholders to enable logical decision making with proper risk assessment

- Help grow a company-wide community of quality enthusiasts that's passionate about our customers’ needs and ways to ensure the presence of quality in all aspects of the software life cycle

- Develop technical initiatives that grow, improve, and scale our existing processes; help us identify what we should be doing next

- Work with customers to understand their issues

Required Skills:

- Passionate about shipping offerings that people love

- Passionate about making complicated things simple

- Enjoy working in an open organization where everyone's contributions are valued

- Deeply knowledgeable of the web, HTTP, and the automated testing space

- Comfortable with Python, JavaScript, or Golang

- Experience with technologies like Git, continuous integration (CI), and containers; solid background in Linux

- Ability to work comfortably and efficiently remotely

- Understanding that our roles are flexible; willingness to take on new opportunities as we grow

Please send your application to the email stated below in English.

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