About the job
The Red Hat Engineering team is looking for a Quality Engineer to join us. In this role, you will own design reviews and automated testing for major product features and bug fixes. You'll be responsible for creating and carrying out test plans, researching new features, developing automated tests, and maintaining and enhancing test frameworks. You'll 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. In addition, you'll 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 lifecycle. As a Quality Engineer, you'll develop technical initiatives that grow, improve, and scale our existing processes, as well as help us identify what we should be doing next while you work with customers to understand their pain points. Successful applicants must reside in a state where Red Hat is registered to do business.
What you will do
How you'll grow within one month
- Get your local development environment set up and running
- Learn our existing testing processes and frameworks
- Run simple automated tests on your own
Within three months, you'll...
- Work on smaller features and bug fixes validation
- Be involved in planning meetings for upcoming features.
- Automate test cases
- Give demos of built features to other teams in the company
Within six months, you'll...
- Review automation code written by others with confidence, applying best practices along the way
- Work with the program team to review requirements prior to product development
- Work with our developers to give feedback on feature implementation and bug fixes
- Pick up larger tasks with direction and support from other team members
What you will bring
- Passionate about shipping products 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
- Experienced with technologies like Git, continuous integration, containers, and a solid background in Linux
- Ability to work comfortably and efficiently remotely.
- Understanding that roles are flexible and willingness to take on new opportunities
About Red Hat
Red Hat is the world's leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions, using a community-powered approach to deliver reliable and high-performing Linux, hybrid cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. Red Hat helps customers integrate new and existing IT applications, develop cloud-native applications, standardize on our industry-leading operating system, and automate, secure, and manage complex environments. Award-winning support, training, and consulting services make Red Hat a trusted adviser to the Fortune 500. As a strategic partner to cloud providers, system integrators, application vendors, customers, and open source communities, Red Hat can help organizations prepare for the digital future.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Flexible Spending Account - healthcare and dependent care
- Health Savings Account - high deductible medical plan
- Retirement 401(k) with employer match
- Paid time off and holidays
- Paid parental leave plans for all new parents
- Leave benefits including disability, paid family medical leave, and paid military leave
- Additional benefits including employee stock purchase plan, family planning reimbursement, tuition reimbursement, transportation expense account, employee assistance program, and more!
Note: These benefits are only applicable to full time, permanent associates at Red Hat located in the United States.