Raanana, Israel Yesterday Not disclosed
Linux QA & Test Engineering Jobs
QA and test engineers build the safety net that lets teams ship with confidence. On Linux systems, this track covers automated test frameworks, performance and reliability testing, chaos engineering, and the CI/CD testing infrastructure that validates every commit. With the shift-left movement and rise of SDET roles, test engineering is increasingly a software engineering discipline in its own right.
Taipei, Taiwan Yesterday Not disclosed
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India Yesterday Not disclosed
Chicago, Illinois, United States 2d ago Not disclosed
Riga, Latvia 2d ago Not disclosed
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India 2d ago Not disclosed
Taipei, Taiwan 2d ago Not disclosed
Kyiv, Ukraine 6d ago Not disclosed
Boston, Massachusetts, United States May 27 $92k – $136k
Lexington, Massachusetts, United States May 27 $146k – $194k
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Denver, Colorado, United States May 27 Not disclosed
Ho Chi Minh City, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam May 27 Not disclosed
Remote, United Kingdom May 27 Not disclosed
Lanham, Maryland, United States May 27 Not disclosed
Rome, New York, United States May 27 Not disclosed
Shenzhen, Guangdong, China May 27 Not disclosed
Minsk, Belarus May 26 Not disclosed
Pangyo, Seoul, South Korea May 26 Not disclosed
Bristol, United Kingdom; Cambridge, United Kingdom May 22 Not disclosed
Bristol, United Kingdom May 22 Not disclosed
Frequently Asked Questions
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Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) is an engineer who focuses on building test automation infrastructure, frameworks, and tooling rather than manual testing. SDETs write code that tests code: integration tests, end-to-end tests, performance benchmarks, and fuzz testing harnesses. The role requires strong software engineering skills alongside QA expertise.
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Linux QA engineers need shell scripting (Bash), understanding of process management and signals, networking tools (curl, netcat, tcpdump), container and Kubernetes testing environments, and CI/CD integration (Jenkins, GitHub Actions). Performance testing requires knowledge of Linux performance tools (perf, strace, flame graphs).
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Chaos engineering intentionally injects failures into production systems to discover reliability weaknesses before they cause outages. Tools like Chaos Monkey, Gremlin, and Litmus Chaos simulate node failures, network partitions, and resource exhaustion. Linux process, network, and cgroup manipulation are core to how chaos tools operate.
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US QA and test engineers earn $90,000–$140,000. SDET roles at software companies, particularly those requiring strong programming skills and systems knowledge, command $130,000–$170,000. Test engineers with Linux kernel and embedded testing experience can earn more in specialised roles.