75% Remote: Platform QA Architect (f/m/d)

For our client we are looking for a Platform QA Architect (f/m/d).

Frame data:
Start: November 2024
Duration: 31.03.25 ++ (long term)
Capacity: 100% if possible
Location: Berlin / Remote (1 week Berlin / 3 weeks remote in rotation), up to 50% onsite in peak times

Role:
The Platform QA team within the program organization is responsible for end-to-end testing of hybrid cloud platform services, including our private/public cloud Kubernetes Service, the Resource Management Service, the Service Lifecycle Management Service, the Identity and Access Management Service and multiple Data services, such as Postgresql, Kafka, TimescaleDB, etc; as well as our Devops tools.

We are looking for a QA Architect to join the team and take responsibility for all technical aspects of QA/testing activities to ensure best test coverage of our products and services. This includes test strategy definition and implementation, requirements analysis, test automation framework design and development, design technical test approaches for different levels of testing, test documentation.

The Architect will also work closely with the Platform and Product Line architects to understand the platform and optimise relevant testing approaches to ensure the platform satisfies its functional and nonfunctional requirements.

Skills (must-have):
- In-depth knowledge of K8s, containerization, and orchestration
- Experience with multi-cloud platforms, understanding services, networking, and cloud-native testing approaches.
- Experience with testing and validating data pipelines, databases (SQL/NoSQL), data streaming technologies like Kafka
-Strong experience with building test automation frameworks, pytest
- Proficiency in REST API testing
- Strong analytical skills to troubleshoot complex cloud-native issues
- Ability to design scalable test strategies for cloud-native and containerized applications, ensuring high availability, performance, and security.
- Ability to work closely with DevOps, development, and product teams to integrate QA into the development lifecycle.
- Experience in leading QA teams, mentoring junior engineers, and establishing best practices.
- Understanding customer requirements and ensuring testing strategies align with customer use cases.
- fluent English in speech and writing

Skills (should-have):
- Experience with TestRail
- DevOps experience
- Experience with infrastructure platform projects