Staff QA Engineer: Automation & Cloud-Native Testing Lead

Graphcore; Województwo pomorskie; On-site; PLN 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Comprehensive healthcare and dental

Phantom equity

Fitness and wellbeing support

Financial protection

Retirement savings

Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)

Job summary

Graphcore is looking for a Staff QA Engineer to join its workload management and AI compute projects in Poland. You will drive automation, test strategy and quality across Kubernetes-based workloads and distributed systems, while mentoring peers and shaping validation plans.

You will work with software engineers and infrastructure specialists in a hands-on, systems-focused team, influencing test coverage and engineering quality throughout the development lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Strong Python programming experience with a focus on automation and test engineering.
• Hands-on experience with Robot Framework or similar automation frameworks.
• Experience testing cloud-native, containerised or distributed systems.
• Strong Linux understanding and confidence debugging across multiple system layers.
• Experience with CI/CD systems such as GitLab CI or GitHub Actions.
• Ability to define quality standards, improve test coverage and mentor other QA engineers.

Responsibilities

• Influence test strategy, validation plans and automation practices across the development lifecycle.
• Mentor others, speak up on risk and help turn complex systems into dependable products.
• Build the quality foundations for Kubernetes systems that power next-generation AI compute.
• Validate the workload management stack for new AI accelerator hardware; ensure Kubernetes integrations are robust.
• Design automated test suites, build system and integration tests, and improve CI/CD quality practices.

Skills

Python

Automation

Robot Framework

Cloud testing

Linux

CI/CD

Mentor QA engineers

Tools

GitLab CI

GitHub Actions

Job description

Graphcore is looking for a Staff QA Engineer to join its workload management and AI compute projects in Poland. You will drive automation, test strategy and quality across Kubernetes-based workloads and distributed systems, while mentoring peers and shaping validation plans.

You will work with software engineers and infrastructure specialists in a hands-on, systems-focused team, influencing test coverage and engineering quality throughout the development lifecycle.