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We build scheduler and simulator products that work directly with customer datacenter infrastructure for GPUs, helping customers operate and simulate usage across mostly heterogeneous environments.\nThis role requires strong test automation, practical manual testing judgment, Kubernetes and infrastructure understanding, and CI/CD experience. You will help define how we test scheduler and simulator behavior, what we automate, and how quality gates become part of everyday development and release workflows.\nResponsibilitiesDesign, build, and maintain automated tests across scheduler, simulator, APIs, backend services, frontend workflows, integrations, and system-level scenarios.\n\nDevelop reliable regression, smoke, integration, end-to-end, and release test suites that run in CI/CD pipelines and validate Kubernetes-based deployments.\n\nTest AI infrastructure workflows for GPU datacenters, heterogeneous resource allocation, configuration changes, failure scenarios, monitoring signals, and rollback behavior.\n\nPerform manual exploratory, functional, and regression testing where automation is not yet available or where senior judgment is required for complex infrastructure behavior.\n\nCollaborate with engineers, product managers, and platform teams to define test strategy, quality criteria, release readiness, reproducible simulation scenarios, and customer-environment risk areas.\n\nAnalyze test results, investigate failures, distinguish product defects from environment, infrastructure, data, or test issues, and drive root-cause resolution.\n\nImprove CI/CD quality gates, test reporting, flaky-test handling, test data management, environment validation, and automated checks for Kubernetes deployments.\n\nContribute to test framework architecture, tooling choices, Python coding standards, and maintainable automation practices.\n\nDocument test plans, risks, coverage gaps, simulation assumptions, infrastructure constraints, and release recommendations clearly for technical and non-technical stakeholders.\n\nMentor engineers and QA colleagues on automation best practices, testability, infrastructure-aware QA, and quality ownership.\n\nWhat we're looking for5+ years of professional QA, SDET, or test automation experience, ideally in infrastructure, platform, cloud, developer tooling, distributed systems, or deep-tech product environments.\n\nStrong hands-on test automation experience, especially with Java OR Python/Pytest; ability to write clean, maintainable test code and tooling.\n\nExperience building automated tests across APIs, services, integrations, UI workflows, and end-to-end or system-level scenarios.\n\nSolid understanding of Kubernetes, containers, Linux environments, deployments, configuration, logs, metrics, monitoring, and CI/CD pipelines.\n\nAbility to test complex infrastructure products where behavior depends on resource allocation, workload characteristics, environment configuration, and distributed system interactions.\n\nExperience with manual exploratory testing, defect isolation, risk-based release decisions, and investigating ambiguous failures in technical systems.\n\nPractical experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, CircleCI, or similar.\n\nExperience debugging failures using logs, metrics, traces, screenshots, test artifacts, Kubernetes events, container logs, and developer tools.\n\nStrong communication skills and the ability to work closely with backend, platform, infrastructure, and product teams to improve testability and prevent defects early.\n\nSenior-level ownership: able to define priorities, challenge assumptions, improve processes, and deliver without detailed supervision.\n\nNice to haveExperience testing AI infrastructure, GPU platforms, schedulers, simulators, cloud platforms, infrastructure products, developer tools, data platforms, or complex distributed systems.\n\nExperience with Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, observability tooling, Linux, networking basics, or platform engineering workflows.\n\nExperience testing heterogeneous environments with different GPU types, node configurations, workloads, tenants, quotas, or capacity constraints.\n\nExperience with performance, load, scalability, reliability, contract, security, or chaos testing.\n\nExperience building test frameworks, internal QA tooling, synthetic workload generators, simulators, or test data pipelines from scratch.\n\nExperience with test management, reporting, quality analytics, and release dashboards.\n\nExperience coaching teams toward better quality ownership, shift-left testing, and infrastructure-aware QA practices.\n\nWhat this role is notThis is not a purely manual QA execution role and not a role focused only on clicking through predefined test cases.\nWe are looking for a senior profile who can design automation strategy, understand technical systems, and actively improve the quality of our delivery process.\nManual testing is still important, but it should complement strong automation, technical investigation, and CI/CD-driven quality practices.\n\nWhy us? 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