Senior QA Engineer, Cloud-Native & Kubernetes

SmartRecruiters, Inc.; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation package

Professional development and training

Conferences and tech talks

Job summary

Mirantis is seeking a senior QA leader to drive the quality strategy for Kubernetes and cloud-native infrastructure. You will architect test systems for multi-cluster environments, build scalable automation integrated with CI/CD, and mentor engineers across teams to ensure production-grade releases.

You will champion best practices, advanced testing techniques, and performance/chaos testing while collaborating with DevOps to refine monitoring and incident response.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 10+ years in software testing or quality engineering with 4+ years in Kubernetes and cloud-native distributed systems.
• Proven leadership experience in building and scaling test strategies in enterprise-grade environments.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to driving the overall QA strategy for Kubernetes and cloud-native environments, aligning quality goals with business objectives and release deadlines.
• Evaluate and champion best-in-class testing best practices and frameworks for distributed systems.
• Lead risk analysis and test planning for large-scale, multi-cloud infrastructure and container orchestration.
• Architect test frameworks and infrastructure for validating microservices and infrastructure components in multi-cluster and hybrid-cloud environments.
• Oversee the design of complex test scenarios simulating production-like workloads, resource scaling, failure injection, and recovery across distributed clusters.
• Spearhead the development of scalable and maintainable test automation integrated with CI/CD (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, etc.).
• Leverage Kubernetes APIs, Helm, and service mesh tools to build comprehensive automation coverage, including system health, failover behavior, and network resilience.
• Mentor QA engineers and developers in advanced testing techniques such as risk-based testing, chaos engineering, performance and load testing etc.
• Serve as the QA authority in design reviews, production readiness assessments, and incident retrospectives(escaped defects).
• Collaborate with and devops engineers to refine monitoring, alerting, and debugging strategies for testing automation being run in CI/CD.
• Establish quality gates, release readiness metrics, and data driven feedback loops to ensure released software is production quality.
• Drive initiatives to integrate performance, security, and chaos testing into the development lifecycle.
• Advocate for a culture of quality across teams and influence architecture decisions with testing in mind.

Skills

Leadership & mentorship

Cross-functional collaboration

Advanced testing & QA strategy

Strong problem-solving

Executive-level communication

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

Helm

Service mesh (Istio/Linkerd)

RBAC & Secrets management

CI/CD (Jenkins, GitHub Actions)

Prometheus

Grafana

Jaeger

K6

AWS/Azure/GCP

Job description

Mirantis is seeking a senior QA leader to drive the quality strategy for Kubernetes and cloud-native infrastructure. You will architect test systems for multi-cluster environments, build scalable automation integrated with CI/CD, and mentor engineers across teams to ensure production-grade releases.

You will champion best practices, advanced testing techniques, and performance/chaos testing while collaborating with DevOps to refine monitoring and incident response.