QA Engineer with K8s/Kubernetes

QA Automation Engineer (6-8 Years) Kubernetes & Cloud

Job Location: Pune

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain automated test scripts to validate web and microservices applications deployed on Kubernetes clusters.
• Use kubectl and Kubernetes APIs for validating cluster status, deployments, scaling, failover, node and pod health, config management, and network policies.
• Implement and execute automation strategies for CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI/CD.
• Validate multi-cloud deployments (AWS, Azure, GCP) and ensure reliability, security, and scalability of cloud-native applications.
• Conduct system, integration, performance, and chaos testing across distributed Kubernetes environments.
• Collaborate with DevOps for Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), monitoring, alerts, and troubleshooting of test automation in CI/CD pipelines.
• Document and track bugs, perform risk analysis, and contribute to release readiness metrics and quality gates.
• Mentor junior team members in advanced test automation, troubleshooting, and best practices.
• Stay updated with the latest QA tools, techniques (chaos engineering, performance, load testing), and trends in Kubernetes/cloud automation.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• 6-8 years of hands-on experience in QA automation for cloud-based and containerized environments.
• Advanced proficiency in Kubernetes: strong understanding of components (pods, nodes, controllers, services), Kubernetes CLI (kubectl), Helm, and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana).
• Experience in any one major cloud: AWS, GCP, or Azure (infrastructure, deployments, managed K8s services like EKS, AKS, GKE).
• Expertise with automation frameworks and scripting (Python, Java, JavaScript), and test automation tools (Selenium, Cypress, Pytest, etc.).
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD, containerization (Docker), and infrastructure provisioning (Terraform, Ansible is a plus).
• Solid grounding in Linux fundamentals and networking.
• Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills; proven mentorship experience.

Preferred/Bonus Skills

• Experience with API testing tools (Postman, RestAssured).
• Performance and load testing (JMeter, k6).
• Exposure to GitOps, Helm, service mesh (Istio/Linkerd), RBAC, security testing.
• Familiarity with monitoring, logging, and incident management in distributed systems.
• Experience contributing to open-source/cloud-native communities.

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