QA automation/Devops engineer for k0rdent KOF team
Key Responsibilities
Testing Strategy & Leadership
- Contribute to driving the overall QA strategy for Kubernetes and cloud-native environments, aligning quality goals with business objectives and release deadlines.
- 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.
Implementing 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, resource scaling, failure injection, and recovery across distributed clusters.
Automation & Scalability
- Spearhead the development of scalable and maintainable test automation integrated with CI/CD (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, etc.).
- Leverage Kubernetes APIs, Helm, and service mesh tools to build comprehensive automation coverage, including system health, failover behavior, and network resilience.
- Promote test infrastructure-as-code and drive IaC forward on the team making sure the infrastructure code is repeatable, extensible and reliable.
Technical Influence
- Serve as the QA authority in design reviews, production readiness assessments, and incident retrospectives(escaped defects).
- 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.
Qualifications and Skills Education
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
Experience
- 1+ years in software testing/DevOps or quality engineering roles
Technical Proficiency
- Basic understanding of Software lifecycle management, Linux, Docker, Networks
- Scripting and automation capabilities (Python, Pytest, Bash, etc.).
- Familiarity with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger), Kubernetes security (RBAC, secrets management)
- Basic understanding of cloud (AWS, Azure, or GCP), infrastructure provisioning, and containerized CI/CD.
- Bash scripting and debugging.
Collaboration
- Problem-solving and architectural thinking.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills for technical and executive-level audiences.
Preferred Extras
- Kubernetes or QA tooling projects.
- Certifications such as CKA, CKAD, or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer.
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