SAP QE Architect

SAP QE Architect

Job Description:

You will be part of a team, that consists of experienced and highly skilled quality engineers, who are responsible for assuring and engineering the quality of our SLE product family. Their duties are:

• Developing and enhancing the automation tools for various SUSE Linux Enterprise products, that also run in the public cloud, with openQA as our main automation tool.
• Designing, developing and maintaining automation test cases for SUSE Linux Enterprise products.
• Collecting and investigating automation tools requirements from QA and development teams.
• Coordinating test planning and execution in a truly global distributed project team.

Your responsibilities:

• Responsible for the automation strategy of the department within the SAP context.
• Working closely with development and product management at SUSE and at SAP to define suitable test approaches to SUSE Linux Enterprise.
• Gather requirements from SAP as our customer and partner.
• Provide guidance for milestone testing for a sufficient SAP test coverage.
• Build relationships inside SAP.
• Drive integration of SAP test environments into SUSE’s CI/CD environment.
• Create proof of concepts and pilots.
• Promote and advocate test automation throughout the QE department.
• Write documentation and training material about automation.
• Conduct training and organize mentoring programs.

Required skills and experience:

• Thorough understanding of software quality assurance and techniques, software development life cycle, test automation frameworks and various test methodologies.
• Excellent written, verbal communication and interpersonal skills, with experience of working in a virtual and distributed environment.
• Fluent in German and English.
• Being able to navigate at ease through a culturally diverse matrix organization.
• Strong analytical skills and result orientation for effective problem solving.
• Very good understanding and hands-on experience with programming languages.
• Excellent Linux knowledge in general; experience of the SUSE Linux Enterprise family and/or openSUSE is a benefit.
• Experience with test automation tools such as Jenkins, Robot framework and Avocado.
• Experience as a senior system integrator or administrator.
• Strong social skill set.
• Reaching beyond your core job responsibilities, helping others to succeed and to be successful. Having sense of ownership.
• Willingness to travel (up to 60%).

Job:

Engineering

SUSE, the world’s largest independent open source software company, powers digital transformation with true open source technologies for the enterprise that simplify, modernize and accelerate traditional, cloud and edge solutions. SUSE collaborates with partners, communities and customers to deliver and support solutions that enable mission-critical business outcomes. SUSE’s container and cloud platforms, software-defined infrastructure, and artificial intelligence and edge computing solutions allow customers to create, deploy and manage workloads anywhere – on premises, hybrid and multi-cloud. For more information, visit www.suse.com.