Job Title
QA Engineer - SRE
Job Description
Sage is a global leader in accounting, payroll, and financial management solutions. We empower businesses with innovative cloud-based software, simplifying and automating financial processes so they can thrive in a digital world.
We're looking for a QA Engineer to join our Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team within Cloud Services Engineering & Operations. In this role, you'll play a key part in ensuring the reliability, performance, and resilience of our cloud-based accounting products, helping us deliver seamless, high-quality solutions to customers worldwide.
This is a hybrid role - three days per week in our Newcastle office.
Key Responsibilities
* Conduct performance, load, and stress testing to optimize system scalability and stability.
* Collaborate with SREs, DevOps, and engineers to integrate QA best practices into CI/CD pipelines.
* Develop, execute, and maintain automated test cases to ensure cloud software reliability.
* Build and enhance test automation frameworks for cloud infrastructure and application reliability.
* Support incident response efforts by diagnosing, documenting, and resolving production issues.
* Drive resilience testing strategies, including chaos engineering, to strengthen system robustness.
* Participate in Agile ceremonies, contributing to continuous improvement initiatives.
* Coordinate User Acceptance Testing (UAT) to ensure smooth product releases.
* Mentor junior QA engineers in automation, cloud QA, and SRE methodologies.
What We're Looking For
Must-Have Skills:
* Experience in performance and load testing for cloud-based applications.
* Proficiency in UI test automation (e.g., Selenium).
* Strong understanding of AWS cloud services and cloud infrastructure testing.
* Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and test automation integration.
* Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools (e.g., New Relic, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk).
* Understanding of SRE principles, including reliability testing and fault tolerance.
* Experience across the full testing lifecycle, from test planning to User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
Nice-to-Have Skills:
* Hands-on experience with test automation frameworks and scripting languages (Python, Java, JavaScript).
* Experience with containerized applications (Docker, Kubernetes).
* Exposure to resilience testing tools (e.g., Chaos Monkey, Gremlin).
* Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools (Terraform, CloudFormation).
Function
Cloud Operations
Country
United Kingdom
Office Location
Newcastle
Work Place type
Hybrid
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Working at Sage means you're supporting millions of small and medium sized businesses globally with technology to work faster and smarter. We leverage the future of AI, meaning business owners spend less time doing routine tasks, like entering invoices and generating reports, and more time pursuing their ambitions.
Our colleagues are the best of the best. It's why we were awarded 2024 Best Places to Work by Glassdoor. Because to achieve extraordinary outcomes, we need extraordinary teams. This means infusing Sage with people who knock down barriers, continuously innovate, and want to experience their potential.
We celebrate individuality and welcome you to join us if you embrace all backgrounds, identities, beliefs, and ways of working. If you need support applying, reach out at careers@sage.com. #J-18808-Ljbffr