Senior Software Quality Engineer

Company Description

At Red Hat, we connect an innovative community of customers, partners, and contributors to deliver an open source stack of trusted, high-performing solutions. We offer cloud, Linux, middleware, virtualization, and AI technologies, together with award-winning global customer support, consulting, and implementation services. Red Hat is a rapidly-growing company supporting more than 90% of Fortune 500 companies.

Job Summary

AI Platform Core Components drive Red Hat’s contribution to key open source AI communities. We work on PyTorch, vLLM, Triton and their many dependent and related projects. Our mission is to support and foster these communities, as well as productise them as part of RHEL AI and OpenShift AI.

The OS Platform team is looking for a Quality Engineer to work on the integration of  RHEL AI into a RHEL based operating system appliance. You will be responsible for bringing all the pieces of RHEL AI together into the end product our customers will consume. The team is also responsible for the administrator experience of installing, updating and monitoring the RHEL AI operating system. Previous experience with Fedora-based operating systems are highly desirable, and experience with bootc or Image Mode RHEL would be a big plus.

What we expect you to bring is a passion for both Open Source software and its communities, as well as a desire to contribute to Red Hat’s mission to help customers bring AI to their data.

Primary Job Responsibilities

• Define and implement automated test strategies and the infrastructure to support them in a manner that enables all team members to contribute to releasing quality software

• Execute, monitor results and troubleshoot both automated and manual tests

• Collaborate with SW Quality team members outside the immediate team to work toward an integrated testing strategy with best possible coverage and resulting quality

• Analyze source code and work with developers to propose appropriate test approaches for all parts of our software; this includes providing feedback on how to make our code more test-friendly

• Explore novel approaches to testing RHEL AI software, focusing on all aspects ranging from usability, unwanted behaviors to performance and scalability

• Develop and work on the design of test automation frameworks and tools and their integration with the development workflow

• Regular communication and feedback about progress to various project stakeholders, such as other Red Hat AI Engineering teams, product managers and management

Required Skills

• Experience as a Software Quality Engineer, preferably with building an Operating System, which includes developing test plans

• Solid experience scripting and creating automation using Python and Bash

• Basic experience with automation in GitHub/GitLab, such as GitHub actions or similar continuous integration tools

• Experience with container technologies, such as Kubernetes/OpenShift and Podman

• Work experience with DevOps methodologies, scrum and tools, such as Jira

Bonus Skills

• Previous experience with hardware acceleration, either generic GPU experience or specific ones, such as CUDA and ROCm

• Knowledge of AI/ML and how it might impact approaches to testing

• Automation experience using tools such as Ansible

About Red Hat

Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions, using a community-powered approach to deliver high-performing Linux, cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. Spread across 40+ countries, our associates work flexibly across work environments, from in-office, to office-flex, to fully remote, depending on the requirements of their role. Red Hatters are encouraged to bring their best ideas, no matter their title or tenure. We're a leader in open source because of our open and inclusive environment. We hire creative, passionate people ready to contribute their ideas, help solve complex problems, and make an impact.

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