Quality Engineer

**VMware Professional** **Services Worldwide Center** Engineering** **designs and builds integrations of VMware and 3rd party products into complete solutions and develops additional capabilities to existing products. Our solutions commonly are the backbone of global enterprise private and public clouds.

As part of a Professional Services Center of Excellence (PS CoE) organization, you will be working on global projects with other talented and passionate experts in customer-oriented teams.

**What is a Typical Day?**

As seasoned Quality Engineer you will be involved in the entire software development process to ensure the quality of the final solution as part of global cross-functional team. You will use equally manual and/or automated testing approaches do accomplish the goals. Depending on the project type you might be working on several small to medium size projects simultaneously or in a single bigger project. You will be communicating directly with customers, development team, partners and stakeholders, being the advocate about and consulting for meeting the quality standards of the organization and the customer.

**Day to day you would**:

- Architect quality management strategy and systems for waterfall and continues integration / continuous delivery approaches
- Build, setup, integrate and configure tools and platforms to accomplish the test strategy
- Prepare test plans, test cycles and test cases for Acceptance, System and Integration testing and applicable automation around.This might consist of all or part of functional, non-functional (performance, security, availability and etc), environment, components, libraries, packages, api and etc.
- Plan and manage the quality throughout the full execution lifecycles including execution of test strategy, plans, cycles and test cases manual or automated
- Contribute to and control the quality of the requirements
- Collaboration with and consulting of end customers, partners, and software development teams
- Customer expectations and alignment management regarding testing strategy
- Monitoring, control and reporting on the quality management process
- Identify product defects, tracks and report them
- Participate on optionally manage regular reviews and continuous improvement

**What would you need to be successful?**
- Solid understanding of the software development and testing lifecycle, DevOps practices, Agile (Scrum, Kanban in particular) and waterfall processes and methodologies
- Experience with virtualization, IP networking and administering Linux & Windows operating systems
- Experience with manual and automation software testing ideally for custom software development
- Experience with setting up and working with Cloud Native and DevOps technologies, principles and practices like self-service, source control management, definition managed infrastructure, CI/CD, and etc.
- Experience in troubleshooting technical across the OSI layers ideally
- Used to work in distributed, multinational and multi-cultural environment,
- Autonomous, pro-active and goal oriented
- Excellent communication skills in English both speaking and writing

**What additionally would be helpful for your success?**
- Git, Atlassian suit (Jira, Confluence, Bamboo, Stash), Jasmine, Cucumber, Ansible, Terraform, Jenkins and VMware product suit
- Experience with configuration & management of firewalls / load balancers is an advantage
- Knowledge on scripting (bash, PowerShell) and programming (Java script)
- Consulting background
- Knowledge of German, French, Spanish, Chinese or Japanese languages

**Some Open Source Work**:
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**Perks**
- Flexible working time
- Diverse team and fresh team culture
- Kids-oriented programs - summer schools and events, health insurance plans
- Trainings and personal development opportunities
- Gradual onboarding, individual plan

**VMware offers**:

- Attractive compensation package - competitive salary, flexible bonus scheme, company sponsored mobile phone plan and additional long term incentives
- Individual career path - management and technical career growth, enhanced by learning and development program, regular performance assessment, teams of world-wide IT professionals
- Healthy work environment - company sponsored medical program, food and beverage program, sport activities, open communication
- Work-life balance - 25 days paid vacation, regular team buildings and celebrations

As part of the VMware global standards for integrity you will be required to go through a pre-employment screening process before you join

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VMware is an Equal Opportunity Employer 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 d