OpenStack (Senior) QA Engineer

This Senior Software QA Engineer will have the following responsibilities:

• Define test requirements in support of Cisco's open source cloud platform.
• Develop automated scripts and environments to facilitate thorough codecoverage.
• Actively contributing to the cloud platform technical strategy, architecture, and software lifecycle management processes, as well as development, integration and QA plans.
• Actively engage the OpenStack community and other relevant open source work efforts to ensure alignment of Cisco contributions to those projects.
• Influence others to support the cloud platform initiative, and help grow the extended team, both external and internal to Cisco.
• Engage with customers, partners and developers as required to support the Cloud platform and its roadmap.
• Communicate with stakeholders and team members to provide regular updates on progress and issues to address

The ideal candidate will have a unique blend of superior knowledge of developing/testing open source software based systems and experience with cloud infrastructure development. He/she will have significant engineering experience in setting technical requirements, architecture, designing, developing and delivering system software platforms. Relevant experience must include successfully delivering a large emerging systems software development project on schedule.

Required Experience, Skills, and Characteristics include:

• Bachelor or Master Degree in CS/EE, or equivalent experience is required.
• software platform development test experience, with relevant experience in web-based scalable systems platform software design and development.
• Strong coding skills with emphasis on writing modular and scalable code in python.
• Direct experience with Linux Kernel software and related infrastructure.
• Knowledge and experience with OpenStack, OpenNebula or a similar Cloud infrastructure platform is highly desirable.
• Experience with and interest in open source software communities and active participation in OpenStack projects.

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