Quality Engineer - Professional Services - Opportunity for Working Remotely

Why will you enjoy this new opportunity? At VMware Professional Services Worldwide Center of Engineering, we develop integrations of both VMware products and 3rd party products to provide complete solutions and bring additional capabilities to existing products and services. Our solutions often become the backbone of global enterprises in private and public clouds. We are builders of the future. What is the primary need, technical challenge, and/or problem you will be responsible for?  You will build quality management strategies and systems for waterfall and continuous integration / continuous delivery approaches. You will act as a consultant to the customer by understanding and fulfilling their requirements, while communicating clearly (in English) with architects, developers, DevOps, quality engineers and project managers. Your test cases should be following best practices, and be well executed and documented. Build, set up, integrate, and configure tools and platforms to accomplish the company Test Strategy. You will 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, etc.), environment, components, libraries, packages, API, etc. Plan and manage the quality throughout the entire execution lifecycles, including the execution of test strategy, plans, cycles and test cases manually or automated. Contribute to and control the quality of the requirements. You will collaborate with and consult 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, track and report them, and participate in optionally managing regular reviews and continuous improvement. What Other Skills are an Advantage? 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, etc. Experience in troubleshooting technical across the OSI layers ideally. Excellent communication skills in English both speaking and writing. What is the leadership like for this role? What is the structure and culture of the team like? We have teams that work for EMEA, the Americas, and Asia Pacific/Japan. Each geography is having an engineering manager with over 10 years of experience on average in leadership. Prior to joining CoE, our managers worked in other R&D units of VMware or as leaders of world-class IT companies. Each team is of 10 developers having a team lead reporting to a manager. Our management values honesty, creativity, and persistence. Some Open Source Works https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=vmware-pscoe.vrealize-developer-tools - a Java/JavaScript/TypeScript toolchain https://github.com/sapcc/networking-nsx-t - the Python project https://github.com/sapcc/nsx-t-exporter - the Go project VMware Products References https://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere.html - vSphere https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-NSX-T-Data-Center/index.html - NSX-T https://www.vmware.com/products/vrealize-automation.html - vRealize Automation https://www.vmware.com/products/cloud-director.html - VMware Cloud Director 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 worldwide IT professionals Healthy work environment - company-sponsored medical program, food and beverage program, sports activities, open communication As part of the VMware global standards for integrity, you will be required to go through a pre-employment screening process before you join All job applications will be treated with strict confidentiality VMware is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Prohibits Discrimination and Harassment of Any Kind: VMware is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at VMware are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, colour, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, sex (including pregnancy), age, physical, mental or sensory disability, HIV Status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. VMware will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. VMware encourages applicants of all ages. VMware will provide reasonable accommodation to employees who have protected disabilities consistent with local law. VMware is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Prohibits Discrimination and Harassment of Any Kind: VMware is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at VMware are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, colour, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, sex (including pregnancy), age, physical, mental or sensory disability, HIV Status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. VMware will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. VMware encourages applicants of all ages. VMware will provide reasonable accommodation to employees who have protected disabilities consistent with local law. Category : Engineering and Technology Subcategory: Software Engineering Experience: Manager and Professional Full Time/ Part Time: Full Time Posted Date: 2023-02-01 VMware Company Overview: At VMware, we believe that software has the power to unlock new opportunities for people and our planet. We look beyond the barriers of compromise to engineer new ways to make technologies work together seamlessly. Our cloud, mobility, and security software form a flexible, consistent digital foundation for securely delivering the apps, services and experiences that are transforming business innovation around the globe. At the core of what we do are our people who deeply value execution, passion, integrity, customers, and community. Shape what’s possible today at http://careers.vmware.com. Equal Employment Opportunity Statement: VMware is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Prohibits Discrimination and Harassment of Any Kind: VMware is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at VMware are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, sex (including pregnancy), age, physical, mental or sensory disability, HIV Status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. VMware will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. VMware encourages applicants of all ages. Vmware will provide reasonable accommodation to employees who have protected disabilities consistent with local law.