Red Hat
Senior Software Quality Engineer - Fedora Linux (Ireland, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Czech Republic)
The Fedora Quality team is dedicated to ensuring the continuous quality of Fedora releases. Our team develops, maintains, and uses a suite of tools to automate both the testing and the related processes. We regularly work with other teams and contributors in and outside of Red Hat.
We are seeking a skilled and detail-oriented Senior Quality Engineer. In this role, you’ll bring both your technical expertise and quality engineering mindset to ensure that Fedora’s releases adhere to quality standards. This is a hands-on position with significant room for initiative and creativity. You’ll play a key role in investigating issues, designing workflows and processes, test automation, and working across departments to coordinate and prioritize new features. Successful applicants must reside in a country where Red Hat is registered to do business.
Design, implement, and maintain tests, processes and tools for Fedora release testing.
Develop and maintain automation of tests and quality-related processes.
Perform tests, identify and help resolve issues affecting Fedora users.
Engage with other Red Hat teams to coordinate on cross-functional projects and issues.
Participate in Fedora community discussions to address quality-related concerns.
In-depth Linux knowledge: Ideal candidates are daily Linux users, possibly using Linux as their primary desktop, running their own server, multimedia center, or similar. Practical familiarity with the intricacies of the Linux environment is essential.
Quality Engineering mindset: Able to break and fix systems, with a knack for identifying potential issues and a commitment to thorough investigation.
Critical thinking: Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to analyze and troubleshoot complex issues independently.
Effective communication: Experience communicating effectively with other teams and departments across a broad organization.
Adaptability: Able to prioritize and switch tasks in a dynamic environment.
The following are considered a plus
Python development skills. The team mostly maintains scripts interacting with system tools and web services, and develops small web-based applications (frontend, backend, database).
A keen interest in a wide spectrum of IT related topics.
Passion for Linux, open source and community.
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