Staff Quality Assurance Engineer

Staff Quality Assurance Engineer — Platform9
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About Us:

Platform9: A Better Way to Go Cloud Native

Platform9 is the leader in simplifying enterprise Private Clouds. Founded by a team of VMware cloud pioneers, we are dedicated to transforming IT operations. Our flagship product, Private Cloud Director, turns your existing hardware into a full-featured, future-ready private cloud. We innovate across what we build and how we deliver it, staying focused on a next-generation, open private cloud while holding ourselves to one standard: exceptional customer outcomes.

Enterprises are selecting Platform9 to replace legacy virtualization because it eliminates operational risk and complexity. Private Cloud Director is designed for the experienced infrastructure team, offering a familiar GUI experience for managing VMs and containers, seamless integration with your existing hardware and third-party storage, and critical enterprise features (HA/DR, scale, reliability) built-in. This enables IT teams to gain robust API control and a user experience they trust—rooted in customer obsession and an owner’s mindset. We share context quickly and candidly to keep decisions moving.

With over 30,000 nodes in production at some of the world’s largest enterprises, including Cloudera, EBSCO, Juniper Networks, and Rackspace, Platform9 is the proven path to achieving true vendor independence and operational consistency. We are an inclusive, globally distributed company backed by prominent investors, supported by a partner ecosystem of resellers, systems integrators, MSPs, and technology vendors committed to driving private cloud innovation and efficiency. Our values—innovation, customer obsession, ownership, radical candor, and excellence—guide how we build and support every deployment.

Position Summary:

We are looking for a Software Quality Assurance Engineer with proven expertise in testing large scale, distributed cloud based systems in a continuous integration environment. The engineer in this role will drive and influence quality initiatives within product development teams to promote a quality focussed culture within engineers.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• QA Strategy — Spearhead the development and continuous refinement of our QA strategy, including developing and executing test cases, scripts, plans, and procedures.
• Test Automation — Design, develop, and maintain automated tests to ensure features and functionalities meet quality standards and integrate them with CI/CD systems, minimizing reliance on manual testing.
• Test Infrastructure — Work on test infrastructure to design, implement and run functional, integration and scale tests.
• Manual Testing — Conduct comprehensive manual testing where automation is not feasible, ensuring all features and functionalities meet quality standards.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration — Work closely with product development engineers to design new tests for new features, analyze existing test coverage, identify gaps and add missing tests.
• Defect Management — Track, analyze, and report on software defects, ensuring timely resolution and maintaining high product quality.
• Performance & Scalability — Implement performance, scalability, and stress testing to ensure the software can handle expected loads.
• Continuous Improvement — Identify opportunities to improve QA processes, tools, and methodologies, driving continuous improvement initiatives within the team.
• Risk Assessment — Assess risks associated with product releases and provide recommendations for mitigating those risks.
• Shift-Left Quality — Collaborate with platform architecture and development teams to embed quality principles early in the development lifecycle.
• AI-Assisted Testing — Contribute to implementation of AI-assisted testing and code quality analysis strategies.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science or related discipline. Extensive relevant work experience is also acceptable.
• 10+ years of experience in developing automated tests in a continuous integration environment for large scale systems.

Key Skills:

• Proficiency in writing reliable and maintainable code in Python or Go
• Experience with continuous integration systems like Jenkins or Teamcity
• Experience with linux based systems
• Experience with cloud / containerisation technologies, preferably Kubernetes and OpenStack.

Skills that give you an edge:

• Being a highly motivated self-starter with the ability to work in a highly dynamic environment
• Troubleshooting skills
• Automated testing of the front-end
• To succeed in this role you’ll need to be a team player with a strong sense of ownership for your work and a passion for working in a data driven organisation.

Benefits and Perks:

Employees today are looking for companies that truly care and recognise their whole person. Platform 9's benefits and perks have been carefully designed to ensure that we take care of an employee's emotions and physical well-being. Many of our benefits extend to families, who form a significant part of our well-being at work

Please note that benefits change by country.

• Competitive Compensation and Equity
• Medical Healthcare for you and your family
• Hybrid Work Model
• Wellness Benefits
• Professional Development/Global certifications
• Reward and Recognition Programs
• Team Building Activities

Our benefits have been carefully selected, keeping in mind employees requirements and personal situations now and for the future 

Salary Range: $180-210K/year