Quality Assurance Engineer at Vertica

30 Jan 2025

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Quality Assurance Engineer at Vertica

Job Description:

Location: U.S. Only, REMOTE locations available / Work from Home

About your role

The Vertica QA team, located in Massachusetts seeks a proven QA engineer with experience building a production systems application who can heighten the realism of our database feature testing and performance testing. The Vertica Analytics Database Platform is enterprise software used by engineers in data-driven organizations to build powerful analytics applications in every business vertical imaginable.

Education and Experience:
  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, even better if also has a degree in mathematics or statistics
  • At least 5 years of experience testing a production application, preferably one that uses a database, even better if the application is analytical

Required Skills:
  • Experience in query performance testing
  • Experience in test planning and creating automated test suites
  • Experience in the testing product in Linux
  • Highly analytical and able to independently analyze test results, write clear and complete bug reports, and be comfortable investigating root causes
  • Expertise in automation with Python, Shell scripting, Jira, and version control (such as Git).
  • Experience in database testing and writing SQL queries
  • Excellent communication

Desired skills
  • Strong database performance testing experience
  • Strong database experience and SQL knowledge
  • Strong automation skill
  • Product development experience building and testing enterprise software
  • Experience working with cross-functional teams that included development, QA, documentation, and product management
  • Knowledge of AWS/Google Cloud Platform/Azure/HDFS cloud services and how to integrate them with existing applications
  • Expertise working with Linux

Responsibilities:

Create, modify, and maintain automation performance tests and analyze performance results to identify performance issues and suggest optimizations

Strong technical experience writing complex testing scripts using shell script or python
  • Develops and implements test plans and cases to cover system-level database features and functionality.
  • Develops, executes, and analyzes tests for the database server, specifically focused on the system-level features and functionality.
  • Provides technical leadership, input, and review for test strategy, planning, and execution within the team.
  • Collaborates and communicates with management, internal, and outsourced development partners regarding design status, project progress, and issue resolution
  • Provides technical direction for the database testing process and infrastructure development and maintenance.
  • Maintains and develops test infrastructure.
  • Provides guidance and mentoring to less-experienced staff members

About our team

The best ideas often come from fresh perspectives. At Vertica, our open-minded, diverse and inclusive team is always learning from each other. We approach intellectually challenging work with a "get it done" attitude. Vertica Engineers are given significant latitude and support to pursue what they are passionate about to make Vertica an even better place. If you are excited about building great technology with a proactive team, you will find yourself in good company at Vertica.

About our product

Vertica is a Unified Analytics Platform, based on a massively scalable architecture with the broadest set of analytical capabilities and end-to-end in-database machine learning. Vertica enables many customers - from Philips to The Trade Desk to MassMutual to many others - to easily apply these powerful functions to the largest and most demanding analytical workloads, arming businesses and their customers with predictive business insights faster than any data analytical platform in the market. Vertica provides its Unified Analytics Platform across all major public clouds and on-premises data centers and integrates data in cloud object storage.

We believe the future belongs to the fast. Join us for the ride!

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  • ID: #48910247
  • State: Massachusetts Remote 00000 Remote USA
  • City: Remote
  • Salary: USD TBD TBD
  • Job type: Permanent
  • Showed: 2023-01-30
  • Deadline: 2023-03-30
  • Category: Et cetera