Jan Kročil
Principal Software Engineer & Product Owner, Red Hat Lightspeed
Prague, Czechia
Summary
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Top SchoolJan Kročil is a Principal Software Engineer and Product Owner with 11 years of experience building and leading critical infrastructure and quality engineering teams at Red Hat and Microsoft. He combines hands-on technical chops—especially in test automation, CI/CD optimization, and incident-driven resilience—with product ownership for Red Hat Lightspeed Inventory, the system-of-record for hybrid cloud host management. At Microsoft he balanced management and deep technical contribution to shorten developer feedback loops and harden supply chain tooling across multiple platforms. A pragmatic leader, Jan has grown teams from individual contributor roles to managers of dozens, and contributed to open-source testing work such as integration tests for ManageIQ. Based in Prague, he pairs a systems-focused engineering mindset with a track record of turning operational pain points into scalable, measurable platform improvements.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Information Technology, Information Technology at Vysoké učení technické v BrněInformation Technology, Information Technology at Evropský polytechnický institut - Kunovice
Czech, English, Russian
Github Skills (7)
selenium-ide10
pytest10
selenium10
python10
integration-testing10
testing10
javascript8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ManageIQ/integration_tests
Nov 2015 - Sep 2018
ManageIQ integration tests
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:267 commits, 676 PRs, 471 pushes in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Jan primarily contributed to the integration tests for the ManageIQ project. Their work involved modifying existing tests, including adding compatibility with MiqQE and ManageIQ.qe. These changes included patching the appliance with MiqQE JavaScript and refactoring tests to align with the project's requirements. The user also addressed test failures, which included making fixes to ensure tests ran correctly and updated the test infrastructure.
manageiqpythontestingseleniumpytest
jkrocil/integration_tests
Jan 2015 - Apr 2018
Contributions:313 pushes, 288 branches, 1 tag in 3 years 4 months
serverlessawscloudformscloudformationfunctional-tests
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