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QA automation engineer for k0rdent KCM team (Contractor for 6 months.)

Posted October 02, 2025
Full-time
Mid-Senior Level

Job Overview

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.

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, 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.

Mentorship & Technical Influence

  • Mentor QA engineers and developers in advanced testing techniques such as: risk-based testing, chaos engineering, performance and load testing etc.

  • 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.
     

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