Job Description

Our Client is a global leader in innovative, reliable and enterprise-grade open source solutions and specializes in Enterprise Linux, Kubernetes Management, and Edge solutions.

As Linux QE Engineer you will be pushing the products to the limit; making sure they perform to customer expectations and conform to the highest quality standards.

You will be part of a team, that consists of experienced and highly skilled quality engineers, who are responsible for assuring and engineering the quality of our Linux product family.

Their duties are:

• Developing and enhancing the automation tools for various Linux products, that also run in the public cloud, with openQA as our main automation tool.
• Coordinating test planning and execution in a truly global distributed project team.
• Designing, developing and maintaining automation test cases for our Linux product family.
• Several years of UNIX/Linux engineer/administrator experience supporting a small to large user base.
• Experience with Linux based operating systems as package maintainer is a plus.
• Proficiency with Linux, git and at least one system programming language (C, Go, Rust).
• Proficiency or interest in interpreted languages (Python, Perl, BASH) constitutes a plus.
• Must be familiar with and able to work upstream, fully embedded in Open Source.
• Experience with automated system builds and configuration management tools.
• Must have strong general software engineering background.
• Hands-on experience with opensource software or test development.
• Experience with test automation.
• Experience with Container technologies.
• Experience with large projects and with complex build systems (experience in using Open Build Service and/or openQA is a plus).
• Understanding of software quality assurance, software development life cycle, test automation infrastructure and various test methodologies.
• Excellent written and verbal English communication and interpersonal skills, with experience in working in a virtual and distributed environment.
• The most important requirement is that you are passionate about Linux and opensource software development.