Job Description

Senior QE Automation Engineer

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Pursuing the highest quality of all SUSE products is one of our core beliefs. As Linux QE Engineer you will be pushing our products to the limit; making sure they perform to costumer expectations and conform to the highest quality standards. As part of the Quality Engineering Linux Systems Group department, which is geographically distributed across major engineering location like Germany, Czech Republic and China, you will be involved in enabling new technologies and working with your peers to constantly strive for the best automation solutions to isolate and debug problems.

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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:
Develop and enhance the automation tools for various Linux products, that also run in the public cloud, with openQA as our main automation tool.
Coordinate test planning and execution in a truly global distributed project team.
Design, develop and maintain automation test cases for our Linux product family.

Key responsibilities:

Understanding and documenting the performance and scalability non-functional requirements

Validating performance requirements with stakeholders.

Instrument necessary tools/frameworks to profile and extract relevant metrics and state

Measure system performance

Propose improvements for the performance, scalability, reliability, quality of our enterprise Linux and of openSUSE

Design and implement automated and scalable performance measurement and modeling infrastructures

Design and implement tools and benchmarks for performance testing and evaluation

Own end-to-end system reliability, scalability, and performance in production and beta environments

Contribute to openSUSE and to the open source tools used by the quality engineering workflow

Pursue responsible participation in Open Source projects

Knowledge required:

5+ years of experience with Linux based operating systems as system administrator, as developer or as package maintainer

3+ years of system development experience for Linux/Unix platform

3+ years of experience with automated system builds and configuration management tools

3+ years of experience in API performance testing.

3+ years of experience with Linux performance profiling and inspection using tools such as perf and Valgrind .

Ability to identify and optimize performance bottlenecks at the code level

3+ years proficiency with at least one system programming language (C, Go, Rust)

3+ years of proficiency in interpreted languages (Python, Perl, BASH)

3+ years experience with test automation

Must be familiar with and able to work upstream, fully embedded in Open Source

Must have strong general Software Engineering background

Knowledgeable about general IT industry trends and best practices

Experience with cloud deployment, containerization and virtualized environments is a plus

Hands-on experience with opens source software or test development

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 open source software development

Job: Software Engineering

SUSE is a global leader in innovative, reliable and enterprise-grade open source solutions, relied upon by more than 60% of the Fortune 500 to power their mission-critical workloads. We specialize in Enterprise Linux, Kubernetes Management, and Edge solutions, and collaborate with partners and communities to empower our customers to innovate everywhere \xe2\x80\x93- from the data center, to the cloud, to the edge and beyond. SUSE puts the \xe2\x80\x9copen\xe2\x80\x9d back in open source, giving customers the agility to tackle innovation challenges today and the freedom to evolve their strategy and solutions tomorrow. The company is headquartered in Nuremberg, Germany, and employs nearly 2000 people globally. SUSE is listed in the Prime Standard of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.

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