Quality Engineer

Velocix develops market-leading video delivery solutions used by telecommunications providers, broadcasters, and streaming platforms worldwide. Our portfolio includes Content Delivery Networks (CDN), Video Origins, Recording Managers, Personalization Platforms, Analytics solutions, and cloud-native technologies that power large-scale video streaming services.

As part of our global Engineering organization, you will help ensure the quality, scalability, reliability, and performance of our products through test automation, performance engineering, tooling, and continuous quality practices.

This role is suitable for engineers across a range of experience levels, from early-career professionals developing automation expertise to experienced engineers leading quality and performance initiatives across complex distributed systems.

What you'll do

Test automation & Quality engineering

Design, develop, and maintain automated test frameworks and test suites.

Automate functional, regression, integration, system, and end-to-end testing.

Develop reusable automation libraries, utilities, mock services, and simulators.

Ensure appropriate automation coverage for new features and releases.

Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines.

Improve testing efficiency, reliability, and maintainability.

Performance & Reliability testing

Design and execute load, stress, endurance, scalability, and capacity tests.

Create realistic workload and traffic simulations.

Analyze performance metrics and identify system bottlenecks.

Investigate application, infrastructure, and network behaviour under load.

Support performance benchmarking and system optimization initiatives.

Produce performance reports and recommendations.

Development & Tooling

Develop internal testing tools and frameworks using Python and related technologies.

Support debugging and root-cause analysis by analysing logs, metrics, and system behaviour.

Build utilities to improve testing efficiency and engineering productivity.

Collaborate with software engineers to improve testability and observability.

Collaboration & Agile delivery

Participate in Agile and Scrum ceremonies.

Work closely with Software Engineers, Architects, DevOps Engineers, Product Owners, and other Quality Engineers.

Review automation solutions and testing approaches.

Contribute to release validation and continuous improvement initiatives.

Share knowledge and mentor team members where appropriate.

Technical skills & Experience

Candidates should bring experience in some or all of the following areas. Requirements may vary depending on seniority level.

Automation testing

Experience with:

Test Automation Frameworks

Functional Testing

Regression Testing

API Testing

Integration Testing

End-to-End Testing

Tools such as:

Robot Framework

PyTest

Selenium

Playwright

Similar automation technologies

Performance testing

Experience with:

Apache JMeter

Load Testing

Stress Testing

Endurance Testing

Scalability Testing

Capacity Planning

Exposure to tools such as Spirent Avalanche or similar solutions is desirable.

Programming & Scripting

Experience with:

Python (preferred)

Shell Scripting

Java or JavaScript (beneficial)

Knowledge of:

Software Development Principles

Debugging Techniques

Automation Development

Linux & Systems

Linux administration and troubleshooting experience.

Log analysis and system diagnostics.

Command-line proficiency.

APIs & Databases

Experience with:

REST APIs

HTTP / HTTPS

SQL Databases

NoSQL Databases

DevOps & CI/CD

Experience with:

Git / GitLab

Continuous Integration

Continuous Delivery

Automated testing pipelines

Cloud & Modern Technologies

Exposure to:

AWS

GCP

Kubernetes

Docker

Cloud-native applications

Preferred Experience

Experience in one or more of the following areas:

Video streaming platforms

OTT services

Content Delivery Networks (CDN)

Telecommunications

Media technology

Distributed systems

Cloud platforms

Knowledge of video streaming protocols and traffic patterns is highly desirable.

What we're looking for

Mid-level engineers

Experience developing automated tests and analysing system behaviour.

Ability to independently investigate issues and improve coverage.

Experience with CI/CD and Agile development practices.

Senior engineers

Experience defining automation and performance testing strategies.

Ability to mentor engineers and improve engineering practices.

Expertise in test architecture, performance analysis, and quality engineering.

Ability to influence quality, reliability, and scalability decisions across teams.

Core competencies

Test automation

Performance engineering

Quality engineering

Reliability testing

Python development

Problem solving

Analytical thinking

Continuous improvement

Collaboration

Communication

Ownership & Accountability

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