Senior/lead QA Engineer – Cloud & Storage

Senior/Lead QA Engineer – Cloud & Storage

Mirantis is the Kubernetes-native AI infrastructure company, enabling organizations to build and operate scalable, secure, and sovereign infrastructure for modern AI, machine learning, and data-intensive applications. By combining open source innovation with deep expertise in Kubernetes orchestration, Mirantis empowers platform engineering teams to deliver composable, production-ready developer platforms across any environment—on-premises, in the cloud, at the edge, or in sovereign data centers. As enterprises navigate the growing complexity of AI-driven workloads, Mirantis delivers the automation, GPU orchestration, and policy-driven control needed to manage infrastructure with confidence and agility. Committed to open standards and freedom from lock-in, Mirantis ensures that customers retain full control of their infrastructure strategy.

Job Description

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Senior/Lead QA Engineer with expertise in both cloud-native platforms and storage systems. This role combines deep technical proficiency with leadership in test strategy, automation, and quality advocacy. You will play a key part in ensuring our solutions meet the highest standards of reliability, scalability, and performance across storage subsystems, distributed systems, and Kubernetes-based environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and drive QA strategies across storage, cloud-native, and distributed environments.
• Lead risk analysis, test planning, and release readiness assessments.
• Establish quality gates, release metrics, and data-driven feedback loops to ensure production-grade releases.
• Advocate for a culture of quality and influence design and architecture decisions with testing in mind.

Test Infrastructure & Automation

• Develop, improve, and maintain scalable automated testing frameworks and infrastructure.
• Architect and manage test systems for validating storage, microservices, and hybrid-cloud workloads.
• Integrate automation into CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions), ensuring reliability and maintainability.
• Apply Infrastructure-as-Code practices to create repeatable, extensible, and resilient test environments.

Advanced Testing & Continuous Improvement

• Execute functional, non-functional, integration, system, performance, and failover testing.
• Simulate production-like workloads, failure scenarios, and recovery testing across distributed clusters.
• Integrate chaos, performance, and security testing into the development lifecycle.
• Collaborate with DevOps and engineering teams on monitoring, debugging, and improving resilience.

Mentorship & Collaboration

• Mentor junior QA engineers and developers in advanced testing techniques and automation practices.
• Serve as the QA authority in design reviews, incident retrospectives, and production readiness assessments.
• Work with geographically distributed teams on technical challenges and continuous quality improvements.

Qualifications

• Experience: 7–10+ years in software testing or quality engineering, with 4+ years in Kubernetes, storage systems, or distributed cloud-native applications.
• Programming & Automation: Strong skills in Python and shell scripting (Bash); experience with Pytest and test automation frameworks.
• Technical Proficiency: Kubernetes (internals, cluster lifecycle, Helm, service meshes); storage subsystems (SAN, NAS, Object, SDS); Linux/UNIX environments (networking, system administration, debugging); CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions) and Git; REST APIs and observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger).
• Soft Skills: Excellent English communication (written and verbal), leadership in cross-functional teams, strong problem-solving and architectural thinking.

Preferred Extras

• Experience with OpenStack and public cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Contributions to open-source QA or Kubernetes projects.
• Familiarity with chaos engineering and performance benchmarking tools (e.g., K6).
• Relevant certifications (CKA, CKAD, AWS DevOps Engineer)

Additional Information

Work with an established Silicon Valley leader in the cloud infrastructure industry; work with exceptionally passionate, talented and engaging colleagues, helping Fortune 500 and Global 2000 customers implement next-generation cloud technologies; be a part of cutting-edge, open-source innovation; thrive in the high-energy environment of a young company where openness, collaboration, risk-taking, and continuous growth are valued; professional development and training; attend conferences and working groups; company outings, happy hours, hackathons, and tech talks; receive a competitive compensation package with a strong benefits plan.

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