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.

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 optimisation 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, Dev Ops 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.

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
• Py Test
• 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
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  SQL Databases

Dev Ops & CI/CD

Experience with:

• Git / Git Lab
• Continuous Integration
• Continuous Delivery
• Automated testing pipelines

Cloud & Modern Technologies

Exposure to:

• AWS
• GCP
• Kubernetes
• Docker
• Cloud-native applications

Experience in one or more of the following areas:

• Video streaming platforms
• OTT services
• Content Delivery Networks (CDN)
• Telecommun…