Senior QA Engineer

We are looking for a Senior QA Engineer to take ownership of the quality of the Cloud7 platform, iVolve’s multi-tenant cloud management platform providing a unified control plane across OpenStack, OpenShift, Kubernetes, and public clouds.

This role covers test strategy, automation, functional and non-functional testing, and release quality across a Java/Spring Boot and React-based platform running on Kubernetes.

The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on automation experience across both API and UI testing, a solid understanding of cloud-native and microservices environments, and the ability to define risk-based test coverage. This is a senior individual contributor role with responsibility for establishing QA standards, mentoring engineers, and ensuring production releases meet agreed quality criteria.

Key Responsibilities

Test Strategy & Planning

• Own and continuously improve the QA strategy for the Cloud7 platform.
• Define test plans, test coverage, entry/exit criteria, and release quality gates.
• Review requirements and technical designs for testability.
• Maintain risk-based test coverage across platform modules.

Test Automation

• Design, develop, and maintain automated test suites for REST APIs and React-based user interfaces.
• Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines.
• Build and maintain test data, fixtures, and containerised test environments.
• Identify and eliminate flaky tests to maintain a reliable automation suite.

Functional & Non-Functional Testing

• Perform and oversee functional, integration, regression, and exploratory testing.
• Plan and execute performance and load testing against agreed targets.
• Validate multi-tenancy, role-based access control, and tenant isolation.
• Test upgrade, migration, and rollback scenarios before production deployment.

Defect & Release Management

• Identify, document, triage, and track defects using JIRA.
• Reproduce and verify customer-reported issues and coordinate their resolution.
• Provide QA sign-off before production releases.
• Support User Acceptance Testing, including test preparation and defect coordination.

Quality Leadership

• Establish and maintain QA standards, processes, templates, and best practices.
• Mentor junior QA engineers and support developers in improving testability and testing practices.
• Track and report quality metrics such as test coverage, defect density, defect escape rate, and automation pass rate.
• Participate in post-incident reviews and ensure lessons learned are incorporated into future test coverage.

Additional Responsibilities

• Support Pre-Sales activities with test evidence, quality documentation, and technical responses for customer proposals and RFPs.
• Maintain regression packs, test case libraries, and known-issue documentation.
• Evaluate and recommend new testing tools, frameworks, and practices.
• Collaborate with engineering and product teams to continuously improve software quality.

Required Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• 6+ years of professional QA experience, including at least 2 years in a senior or lead capacity.
• Proven experience owning QA strategy for a production web-based platform.
• Strong hands-on experience developing automated tests for both APIs and user interfaces.
• Experience testing microservices deployed on Kubernetes or Red Hat OpenShift.
• Experience with cloud-hosted or multi-tenant platforms, including tenant isolation and role-based access testing.
• ISTQB certification is preferred.

Technical Skills

API & Backend Testing

• REST Assured, Karate, or Postman/Newman
• WireMock
• Pact / Contract Testing
• JUnit 5
• Mockito
• Spring Boot Test
• Testcontainers

UI Automation

• Selenium WebDriver, Playwright, or Cypress
• Page Object Model and reusable test components
• React Testing Library and Jest

Performance & Security Testing

• JMeter, k6, or Gatling
• OWASP ZAP
• SAST and dependency scanning
• SonarQube / Trivy

Cloud & DevOps

• Docker
• Kubernetes / OpenShift
• Jenkins, Tekton, or GitLab CI
• Argo CD
• CI/CD pipeline integration and automated quality gates

Database & Tools

• SQL and database validation
• PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MongoDB
• JIRA
• Xray or Zephyr
• Allure or ReportPortal
• Git
• Microsoft Teams and Confluence

Additional Knowledge

• Working knowledge of Java/Spring Boot and React to understand the application under test and produce effective technical defect reports.
• Familiarity with Cucumber/Gherkin for Behaviour-Driven Development where appropriate.