Software Quality Engineer - Analytics

Requisition Number: 211010

External Description:

Software Quality Engineer for Analytics

 

Our Company

Teradata empowers companies to achieve high-impact business outcomes through analytics. With a powerful combination of Industry expertise and leading hybrid cloud technologies for data warehousing and big data analytics, Teradata unleashes the potential of great companies. Partnering with top companies around the world, Teradata helps improve customer experience, mitigate risk, drive product innovation, achieve operational excellence, transform finance, and optimize assets. Teradata is recognized by media and industry analysts as a future-focused company for its technological excellence, sustainability, ethics, and business value. 

The Teradata culture isn’t just about one kind of person. So many individuals make up who we are, making us that much more unique. It’s what sets apart the dynamic, diverse and collaborative environment that is Teradata. But even as individuals, there’s one thing that we all share —our united goal of making Teradata and our people, the best we can be.

Teradata has been rated as one of the top 50 companies by Forbes in US as measured by their innovation, success in serving investors, customers, employees, and the world at large. Employees laud Teradata's friendly and helpful teammates, focus on work-life balance, and professional growth opportunities.

 

Job Summary: 

 

Our Data Science Engineering team develops advanced analytics that run inside the massively-parallel, linearly-scalable enterprise class Teradata data warehouse to bring insights to enterprises. As a member of the Data Science Engineering team, the candidate will leverage your knowledge and work closely with the engineers who develop the Teradata Analytics Platform analytic functions (Machine Learning, Statistical, Text, and others) to gather test requirements, execute test plans, and perform both manual and automated testing on a variety of analytic functions to ensure that they are of the highest quality. Teradata’s Analytics Platform functions are enterprise quality distributed and highly parallel functions that can process massive data at linear scalability and high performance. 

 

Job responsibilities

 

• Functional testing of complex analytic functions which includes designing test scenarios, creating test plans, implementing, automating and executing test cases.
• Test the analytic functions for scalability and performance.
• Test the analytic functions for accuracy which requires writing scripts in python and R
• Identify and propose areas of improvement throughout the software development process.
• Work effectively in a fast-paced and constantly changing environment.
• Communicate effectively with all stakeholders.

 

 

Qualifications

 

• MSc in Computer Science / Statistics / Mathematics
• Knowledge of Machine Learning Algorithms
• At least 2 years of software testing experience
• At least 2 years of experience with relational databases and SQL
• At least 2 years of programming experience in Python and shell scripting.
• Working experience on Linux environments.
• Passion for high quality standards and knack for identifying tests that break code.
• Ability to identify and clearly document software defects with complete and accurate information for developers to reproduce and debug the issues
• Ability build and run test automation in a CI/CD pipeline
• Ability to prioritize and work on multiple projects 

• Ability to collaborate closely and effectively with the team and across functional groups 

• Excellent interpersonal, written and oral communication skills.

 

 Preferred Qualifications:

 

• Prior experience with Teradata database.
• Working knowledge of Agile development practices and working in scrum teams.
• Experience using test frameworks.
• Strong grasp of operating systems concepts including filesystems, networks, and memory management.
  
  

 

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City: Santa Clara

State: California

Community / Marketing Title: Software Quality Engineer - Analytics

Job Category: Engineering

Company Profile:

Our Company

At Teradata, we believe that people thrive when empowered with better information. That’s why we built the most complete cloud analytics and data platform for AI. By delivering harmonized data, trusted AI, and faster innovation, we uplift and empower our customers—and our customers’ customers—to make better, more confident decisions. The world’s top companies across every major industry trust Teradata to improve business performance, enrich customer experiences, and fully integrate data across the enterprise.

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