Software Quality Assurance Engineer

Job Title: Software Quality Assurance Engineer

Member of : Engineering Group

About Us :

About Platform9:
Platform9 is a leader in simplifying enterprise private clouds. Our flagship product, Private Cloud Director delivers an open, comprehensive private cloud platform that is developer-friendly and cost-effective, while providing enterprise IT teams with key capabilities they need to modernize their legacy virtualized infrastructure, including: 

Production ready virtualization: Comprehensive virtualization management, from advanced resource scheduling to powerful cluster-wide Software Defined Networking.

Built for the enterprise: Ability to run hundreds of clusters with high availability, seamless in-place upgrades, and backed by Platform9’s Always-On Assurance™.

Integrated and extensible: Integrated platform includes Kubernetes and Kubernetes based platform extensions making it easier for enterprises to harness the ever-growing ecosystem of open-source infrastructure and cloud-native services.

Platform9 was founded by a team of VMware cloud pioneers and has over 20,000 nodes in production at some of the world’s largest enterprises, including Cloudera, EBSCO, Juniper Networks, and Rackspace. Platform9 is an inclusive, globally distributed company backed by prominent investors, committed to driving private cloud innovation and efficiency.

Position Summary:

We are looking for a Software Engineer with proven expertise in testing large scale, distributed cloud based systems in a continuous integration environment. The engineer in this role will drive and influence quality initiatives within product development teams.

Roles and Responsibilities: 

• Work closely with product development engineers to design new tests for new features and products, analyze existing test coverage, identify gaps and add missing tests. 
• Write automated tests and integrate them with CI/CD systems. 
• Work on test infrastructure to design, implement and run functional, integration and scale tests. 
• Encourage and build a quality focussed culture within engineering teams.

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science or related discipline. Extensive relevant work experience is also acceptable.
• 4-10 years of experience in developing automated tests in a continuous integration environment for large scale systems.

Key Skills: 

• Proficiency in writing reliable and maintainable code in Python or Go 
• Experience with continuous integration systems like Jenkins or Teamcity 
• Experience with linux based systems 
• Experience with cloud / containerisation technologies, preferably Kubernetes.

Skills that give you an edge:

• Being a highly motivated self-starter with the ability to work in a highly dynamic environment 
• Troubleshooting skills 
• Automated testing of the front-end 
• To succeed in this role you’ll need to be a team player with a strong sense of ownership for your work and a passion for working in a data driven organisation.

Benefits and Perks:

Employees today are looking for companies that truly care and recognise their whole person. As a budding start-up we have a small energetic workforce and we have curated personalized employee perks that are employee friendly. The good news is that Platform9's benefits and perk programme has a significant impact on employee retention, motivation, and company culture—but not just for men, by empowering women to take care of their physical and emotional wellbeing, we can guarantee their continued participation in the workforce.

Please note, benefits change by country. 

• Competitive Compensation and Equity 
• Medical Healthcare for you and your family 
• Hybrid Work Model 
• Wellness Benefits 
• Professional Development/ Global certifications 
• Reward and Recognition Programs 
• Team Building Activities 
• Hackathon 
• Company Wide Programs

Our benefits have been carefully selected keeping in mind employees requirements and personal situations now and for the future.