Senior QA Engineer – Cloud

1 Month ago • 3 Years + • Quality Assurance

Job Summary

Job Description

Wind River is seeking a Senior Product Validation/QA Engineer to join their Cloud Platform team. This role is crucial for ensuring the performance, reliability, quality, and robustness of their distributed edge cloud platform and orchestration systems. The engineer will be responsible for designing, implementing, and executing comprehensive manual and automated test plans for the Cloud Platform product, which integrates StarlingX, OpenStack, and Kubernetes. Key responsibilities include validating end-to-end system functionality, collaborating with development and product teams, conducting various types of testing (functional, regression, performance, scalability, stress), automating test scenarios using tools like Robot Framework and Python, performing API testing, and participating in CI/CD pipeline integrations. The role also involves investigating and documenting issues, analyzing logs, and continuously improving QA processes.
Must have:
  • 3+ years of QA experience in cloud-native platforms or distributed systems
  • Hands-on experience with Python, Jenkins, Kubernetes, OpenStack, Docker, Helm
  • Strong Linux system administration and networking skills
  • Experience with automated test frameworks and scripting
  • Working knowledge of Git and CI/CD best practices
  • Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills
Good to have:
  • Experience testing telecom cloud platforms or StarlingX
  • Experience with cloud orchestration tools
  • Knowledge of container security and multi-cloud strategies
  • Exposure to test management tools (TestRail, Jira, Confluence)
Perks:
  • Hybrid Work
  • Company-sponsored health, dental, and life insurance
  • Income protection through short and long-term disability coverage
  • Matching RRSP
  • Vacation and various time off policies
  • Well-being programs (Employee assistance program, Unmind)
  • Learning benefits (LinkedIn Learning, seminars)

Job Details

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Senior QA Engineer – Cloud
Location: Ottawa, CAN
 

 

About Wind River

Wind River is a global leader in delivering software for mission-critical intelligent systems. For more than four decades, the company has been an innovator and pioneer, powering billions of systems that require the highest levels of security, safety, and reliability.  

Wind River helps customers across automotive, aerospace, defense, industrial, medical, and telecommunications industries solve complex technology challenges on their journey toward the new intelligent machine economy. The company’s software powers generation after generation of the safest, most secure systems in the world.  Examples include playing a key role in NASA space missions such as Artemis I, the James Webb Space Telescope, and multiple Mars rovers. We’ve achieved recent 5G milestones including the world’s first successful 5G data session with Verizon and building one of the largest Open RAN networks in the world with Vodafone. 

The company has received industry recognition for its technology innovation and leadership, and for its workplace culture, including global Great Place to Work certification and being named a “Top Workplace” for ten consecutive years. If you want to be part of a unique culture where the lived experience is based on our cultural attributes of growth mindset, customer-focus, and diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging, come join us and help advance the future software defined world. 

 

Position Overview

We are redefining what’s possible at the edge. Our Cloud Platform product enables a distributed, Kubernetes-based infrastructure that supports high-performance edge cloud deployments across telecom, aerospace, industrial, and defense sectors.

We are seeking a Senior Product Validation/QA Engineer to join our team, who is responsible for validating Wind River’s Cloud Platform product. This role will be critical in ensuring the performance, reliability, Quality, and robustness of our distributed edge cloud platform and orchestration systems.

You will be responsible for designing, implementing, executing, and maintaining test suites for the Cloud Platform product, which integrates StarlingX, OpenStack, and Kubernetes to deliver carrier-grade infrastructure at the edge.

 

Key Responsibilities

  • Develop and execute comprehensive manual and automated test plans for the Cloud Platform products.
  • Validate end-to-end system functionality, including Kubernetes orchestration, virtual infrastructure management, and cloud-native application deployment at the edge.
  • Work closely with Development, DevOps, and Product teams to understand new feature requirements and acceptance criteria.
  • Conduct functional, regression, performance, scalability, and stress testing across multiple hardware and virtualized platforms.
  • Automate test scenarios using tools such as Robot Framework, Python, Jenkins pipelines, and Kubernetes-native testing tools (e.g., Helm, kubectl).
  • Perform API testing and verify REST integrations within the cloud-native infrastructure.
  • Participate in CI/CD pipeline integrations, test case automation, and release verification in containerized and multi-node environments.
  • Investigate, triage, and document issues found during testing; work with developers and architects to drive resolutions.
  • Continuously improving QA processes, coverage, and test efficiency.
  • Analyze log files and system metrics to debug and report system-level issues and ensure product quality.

 

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
  • 3+ years of experience in QA for cloud-native platforms, virtualization, or distributed systems.
  • Hands-on experience with Python, Jenkins, Kubernetes, OpenStack, Docker, and Helm.
  • Strong proficiency in Linux system administration and networking.
  • Familiarity with edge computing concepts and infrastructure constraints.
  • Experience with automated test frameworks (Robot, pytest, Selenium, etc.) and scripting (Python, Bash, YAML).
  • Working knowledge of Git, Jenkins, and CI/CD best practices.
  • Excellent problem-solving, debugging, and troubleshooting skills.
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills.

 

Preferred Qualifications

  • Prior experience testing telecom cloud platforms or StarlingX-based solutions.
  • Experience with cloud orchestration and lifecycle management tools.
  • Knowledge of container security, storage, and multi-cloud deployment strategies.
  • Exposure to test management tools such as TestRail, Jira,Confluance

 

BENEFITS 

  • Workplace Flexibility: Hybrid Work.
  • Company-sponsored health, dental, and life insurance.
  • Income protection through short and long-term disability coverage.
  • Matching RRSP.
  • Vacation and various time off policies to encourage work-life balance.
  • Well-being programs: Employee assistance program, mental well-being through Unmind.
  • Learning benefits: LinkedIn Learning subscription and seminars.

 

OUR COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY 

Wind River is committed to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social, or ethnic origin, age, physical, mental, or sensory disability, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, HIV status, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status including pregnancy, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate.  Wind River will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on these characteristics. 

To learn more, visit Wind River at www.windriver.com. 

 

APPLICANT PRIVACY NOTICE:                

Your privacy is of the utmost importance to us. At Wind River, we strictly adhere to all applicable data privacy laws. Please review Wind River's Applicant Privacy Notice, which can be found here.                    

             

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Wind River is an Equal Opportunity Employer with a commitment to diversity. We prohibit discrimination based on race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation or any other legally protected status.


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