Staff Quality Assurance Engineer

About CloudBees

CloudBees provides the leading software delivery platform for enterprises, enabling them to continuously innovate, compete, and win in a world powered by the digital experience. Designed for the world's largest organizations with the most complex requirements, CloudBees enables software development organizations to deliver scalable, compliant, governed, and secure software from the code a developer writes to the people who use it. The platform connects with other best-of-breed tools, improves the developer experience, and enables organizations to bring digital innovation to life continuously, adapt quickly, and unlock business outcomes that create market leaders and disruptors.

CloudBees was founded in 2010 and is backed by Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Bridgepoint Credit, HSBC, Golub Capital, Delta-v Capital, Matrix Partners, and Lightspeed Venture Partners. Visit www.cloudbees.com and follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook

Position Description

Cloudbees, the leader in CI/CD (Continuous Integration and Delivery) and the company behind Jenkins, is seeking an experienced QE Engineer. 

CloudBees Flow and CloudBees Core are complex products which span technologies ranging from distributed systems, clustering, databases, multi-thread processing, complex scheduling and much more.

CloudBees Build Acceleration is a build and test acceleration platform for Make-based, Ninja-based, and Visual Studio build environments that intelligently and automatically parallelizes software tasks across clusters of physical or cloud CPUs to dramatically lower build and test cycle times. CloudBees Build Acceleration reduces software build times by distributing the build over a large cluster of inexpensive servers. By using a dependency management system, CloudBees Build Acceleration identifies and fixes problems in real time that would break traditional parallel builds. CloudBees Build Acceleration seamlessly plugs into existing software development environments and includes web-based management and reporting tools.

In this role, the individual is expected to develop and maintain automated tests using Playwright, Selenide & other test frameworks to ensure comprehensive test coverage. Executing various types of testing of the CD-RO and Accelerator products to ensure the scalability and performance requirements of our customers, while collaborating in Agile environments.

• Perform both automated (50%) and manual (20%) testing, as well as various other DevOps activities to supporting QA process (10%)
• Load/Stress testing of the Web applications and backend
• Create and update test scripts, reports and other test documentation
• Collaborate with product management, support and engineering teams in order to establish priorities, understand requirements, formulate test plans and execute them accordingly
• Work with customer support teams to debug customer trouble tickets and reproduce them when necessary.

Additional responsibilities include debugging test failures, tracking issues in Jira, and integrating tests into CI/CD pipelines

The Cloudbees Flow team places high value on quality with the expectation that the QE team serves as the ultimate gatekeeper for certifying the Release Readiness of the software. The ideal candidate is expected to think outside the box in terms of striking the right balance between automation, test coverage (functionality as well as performance of the software) and the speed of testing. 

Desired Skills and Experience

Essential Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field
• 10+ years of experience with automation testing frameworks
• 2+ years of experience with performance testing tool as JMeter or Gatling
• Experience with CI/CD processes and tools such as: Jenkins, GitLab, TeamCity
• Experience with Java, Groovy or Kotlin 
• Experience with at least one of the ?loud computing services: Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure
• Experience with command line interfaces on Linux
• Experience with Kubernetes and Helm
• Experience with UI & API test automation tools, particularly in Java stack (e.g. RoadRunner, JMeter, Gatling, Selenium, Playwright, API testing).
• Working experience with databases setup and managing such as Oracle, MySQL, MS SQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL

Nice to haves

• Previous experience with Test Management/ Reporting Tools. 
• Previous experience with bash scripting and other command line interfaces on Linux, MacOS and Windows.

Responsibilities

• Be part of a 2 week Sprint executing payloads in lockstep with Developers.
• Develop a germane understanding of the plugin assembly line process, starting from design to delivery and follow them. Where necessary improve existing processes and become advocates for delivering top quality software. 
• Work as an independent contributor collaborating with a team of developers and other test engineers.
• Collaborate with product management, support and engineering teams in order to establish priorities. 

What You’ll Get

• Highly competitive benefits and vacation package
• Ability to work for one of the fastest growing companies with some of the most talented people in the industry
• Team outings
• Fun, Hardworking, and Casual Environment
• Endless Growth Opportunities

At CloudBees, we truly believe that the more diverse we are, the better we serve our customers.  A global community like Jenkins demands a global focus from CloudBees. Organizations with greater diversity—gender, racial, ethnic, and global—are stronger partners to their customers.  Whether by creating more innovative products, or better understanding our worldwide customers, or establishing a stronger cross-section of cultural leadership skills, diversity strengthens all aspects of the CloudBees organization.

In the technology industry, diversity creates a competitive advantage.  CloudBees customers demand technologies from us that solve their software development, and therefore their business problems, so that they can better serve their own customers.  CloudBees attributes much of its success to its worldwide work force and commitment to global diversity, which opens our proprietary software to innovative ideas from anywhere. Along the way, we have witnessed firsthand how employees, partners, and customers with diverse perspectives and experiences contribute to creative problem solving and better solutions for our customers and their businesses.

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