Senior Software QA Engineer at Ocient in Chicago, IL
Minimum Requirements
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent.
- Minimum 4-6 years' experience testing a production application, preferably one that uses a database, even better if the application is analytical.
Knowledge and Skills
- Experience in test planning and creating automated test suites.
- Using engineering tools and software packages to test, design, and evaluate products and processes.
- Strong analytical, statistics, and problem-solving skills.
- Strong quality assurance methodology/process skills.
- Knowledge of database internals.
- Coding experience in more than one of the following: python, java, C/C++, C#, shell scripting; expertise working with Linux/Unix, Jira, and version control.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to effectively communicate quality plans, proposals, and results, and negotiate options at management levels.
Responsibilities
- 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 around 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.
Salary Range
$80K -- $100K
Company Information
Ocient enables organizations to explore and interact with hyperscale data sets quickly, cost-effectively, and in previously infeasible ways to deliver meaningful insights and drive customer innovation. Ocient has built a hyperscale enterprise data warehouse platform that enables rapid transformation and analysis of massive (petabyte)-scale data at speeds 10x-50x faster than competitive solutions.
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