Quality Engineer

About

We are looking for a skilled and motivated full‑time remote Quality Engineer to join our K8s Operators Team. As a Quality Engineer, you will be an integral part of ensuring the quality and reliability of our software products. In this role you will be part of a distributed engineering team, maintaining and improving the quality of our software products as part of the release process and in an ongoing fashion. This includes analyzing and reporting defects captured by our automated testing frameworks, defining and implementing new test cases, and improving and scaling our testing capabilities and infrastructure.

Percona’s mission is to enable everyone to innovate freely by providing the best open‑source database software, support, and services. We are a remote‑only, globally dispersed workforce with colleagues in more than 50 countries, focused on MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and MariaDB.

Responsibilities

• Build quality into the product from the start for the Kubernetes Operators for relational and NoSQL databases, focusing on preventing wrong design early and on automatic testing in CI/CD later.
• Evaluate and improve Percona Operator products and new features based on test plans, discovering product issues & bugs.
• Contribute to the DevOps and release management lifecycle, including coordinating, testing, and managing Operator releases.
• Collaborate with engineers and teams across the company to help deploy and debug Kubernetes Operators to facilitate rapid integration and massive growth.
• Research and recommend tools, behaviors, and strategies for improving test and release processes.
• Actively participate in architecture/design collaboration and prevent developers from faulty architecture decisions before code is written.

Requirements

• Familiarity with Kubernetes and experience testing applications within containerized environments.
• Solid understanding of database systems, architecture, and performance, especially in a cloud or Kubernetes context.
• Experience designing and implementing automated test scripts for databases, preferably with knowledge of Postgres, MySQL, or MongoDB.
• Experience and proficiency in Linux.
• Capability to build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, preferably using Jenkins.
• Proficiency in scripting languages (e.g., Python, Bash) and familiarity with programming languages for test automation.
• Experience with version control systems like Git.
• Experience working in an Agile environment, using a test management tool for defect tracking and test management.

Preferred Qualifications

• Interest and contributions to the open‑source community.
• Passion for the evolving landscape of database technologies.
• A track record of bringing innovative ideas to the table, contributing to the improvement of testing strategies, automation processes, and overall product quality.
• Demonstrated commitment to ongoing learning and staying up‑to‑date with trends in quality engineering, cloud, open source, databases, and related technologies.
• Experience with Helm charts for Kubernetes deployment and OpenShift OLM for application lifecycle management.
• Experience in Go.

Location

This is a fully remote, work‑from‑home position that can be located anywhere worldwide. The team’s median time zone is UTC +2, so candidates within ±3 hours of that zone are preferred.

Benefits

• Flexible work hours and various paid time‑off programs.
• Equipment for your remote office.
• Funds for career development (external training, certifications, conferences).
• Ongoing connectivity allowances.
• Participation in an equity incentive plan.
• Programs supporting work/life balance such as The Percona Adventure Team, Work‑from‑Anywhere, FlowDays, FryDays, and overall flexibility.
• Support for social responsibility through the PAVE volunteering program and Women Transforming Technology.