DevOps QA Engineer

Responsibilities

• This role will ensure quality is embedded throughout the delivery lifecycle rather than treated as a final checkpoint, enabling stronger release confidence, earlier issue identification, and more consistent operational readiness.
• Design, develop, and maintain scalable automated test scripts, frameworks, and reusable automation assets to support functional, regression, integration, API, cloud, and end-to-end testing across IAM application releases.
• Integrate automated testing, quality gates, and validation checkpoints into CI/CD pipelines to provide earlier quality feedback and support reliable, repeatable cloud and application deployments.
• Validate applications and services deployed to cloud-based environments, including configuration, connectivity, scalability, resilience, security controls, and operational readiness.
• Partner with development, DevOps, product, infrastructure, security, and operations teams to define test strategies, acceptance criteria, quality gates, and release readiness expectations.
• Execute manual and automated testing as needed to validate new features, enhancements, defect fixes, configuration changes, and production readiness.
• Identify, document, prioritize, and track defects through resolution while clearly communicating risks, impacts, dependencies, and recommended remediation steps.
• Support deployment activities by validating build quality, monitoring test results, reviewing logs, and assisting with troubleshooting throughout release cycles.
• Create, maintain, and improve test data, test environments, and reusable testing assets to increase efficiency, consistency, and coverage.
• Perform API, integration, performance, reliability, and resiliency testing to confirm applications meet functional, technical, security, and operational requirements.
• Analyze test results, pipeline failures, system logs, and monitoring alerts to identify root causes, surface trends, and recommend corrective actions.
• Champion shift-left testing, continuous testing, and quality engineering best practices across the software development lifecycle.
• Maintain clear testing documentation, including test plans, test cases, automation coverage, execution results, defect reports, and release validation evidence.
• Continuously evaluate automation tools, cloud testing practices, frameworks, processes, and quality metrics to improve automation maturity, delivery speed, release reliability, and overall software quality.

Education and Experience

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).
• Experience: Experience in DevOps, QA Automation, Cloud Engineering, or related software delivery roles.
• Certifications (Preferred / A Plus): Certifications in cloud platforms or DevOps (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect / SysOps, Azure DevOps Engineer, HashiCorp Certified Terraform Associate).

What We’ll Provide:

• More than just pay, our DaVita Rewards package connects teammates to what matters most. Teammates are eligible to begin receiving benefits on the first day of the month following or coinciding with one month of continuous employment.
• Comprehensive benefits: Medical, dental, vision, 401(k) match, paid time off, PTO cash out.
• Support for you and your family: Family resources, EAP counseling sessions, access Headspace®, backup child and elder care, maternity/paternity leave and more.
• Professional development programs: DaVita offers a variety of programs to help strong performers grow within their career and also offers on-demand virtual leadership and development courses through DaVita’s online training platform StarLearning.

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At DaVita, we strive to be a community first and a company second. We want all teammates to experience DaVita as "a place where I belong." Our goal is to embed belonging into everything we do in our Village, so that it becomes part of who we are. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and comply with state and federal affirmative action requirements. Individuals are recruited, hired, assigned and promoted without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.

This position will be open for a minimum of three days.

The Salary Range for the role is $115,000.00 - $183,000.00 per year. If a candidate is hired, they will be paid at least the minimum wage according to their geographical jurisdiction and the exemption status for the position. New York Exempt: New York City and Long Island: $66,300.00/year, Nassau, Suffolk, and Westchester counties: $66,300.00/year, Remainder of New York state: $62,353.20/year New York Non-exempt: New York City and Long Island: $17.00/hour, Nassau, Suffolk, and Westchester counties: $17.00/hour, Remainder of New York state: $16.00/hour Washington Exempt: $80,168.40/year Washington Non-exempt: Bellingham: $19.13/hour, Burien: $21.71/hour, Everette: $20.77/hour, Unincorporated King County: $20.82/hour, Renton: $21.57/hour, Seattle: $21.30/hour, Tukwila: $21.65/hour, Remainder of Washington state: $17.13/hour.

For location-specific minimum wage details, see the following link: DaVita.jobs/WageRates

Compensation for the role will depend on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience. DaVita offers a competitive total rewards package, which includes a 401k match, healthcare coverage and a broad range of other benefits. Learn more at https://careers.davita.com/benefits

Colorado Residents: Please do not respond to any questions in this initial application that may seek age-identifying information such as age, date of birth, or dates of school attendance or graduation. You may also redact this information from any materials you submit during the application process. You will not be penalized for redacting or removing this information.