Optimizer Quality Engineer

Location

Flexible, Mexico City

Our Company:

Teradata helps businesses unlock value by turning data into their greatest asset.  We’re the cloud data analytics platform company, built for a hybrid multi-cloud reality, solving the world's most complex data challenges at scale. Our mission isn’t just about the collection of data – it’s about revolutionizing the future of transportation to save lives, optimizing energy costs to make the planet a cleaner place, and using data to predict and identify cancer risks.

Description:

As the Optimizer Quality Engineer, you will be responsible for working with the Teradata Query Optimization Team, leading in defining and maintaining the procedures and technologies for the testing functions of the project.  Successful candidates would participate in our testing process and all the related technologies, environments, and scenarios (including functional, performance, feature interaction, and regression testing) required to ensure a successful product development life cycle and delivery.  They will be well versed in working in and contributing to a fully agile and automated deployment and testing process.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the testing effort for complex features which includes designing test scenarios, creating test plans, implementing, automating, executing test cases, and reporting software defects.
• Conduct performance testing and competitive benchmarking by doing performance analysis and Optimizer join plan analysis to determine usage of the features.
• Develop automated tests for features that manage, distribute and monitor computation across distributed systems in virtual, bare metal on-premise, or in the Cloud environments.
• Create and improve database schemas and functional test modules for re-use and testing of future features.
• Interact with engineers from other organizations to simulate internal and customer-like test scenarios which help validate the product.
• Identify feature interactions and develop feature interaction tests considering various dimensions such as query, feature, supportability, software module, configuration, physical database design, and data.

Requirements

• 2+ years of experience testing enterprise software.
• Must be able to demonstrate a good understanding of database internals and SQL Programming to understand and develop complex SQL queries. Prior experience in database applications or testing databases.
• Experience with Test Automation is required.   
• Experience with Jenkins to build, test, and deploy software is highly preferred.
• Ability to work in a small team of developers and quality engineers focused on testing a related set of features.
• Strong grasp of operating systems concepts including filesystems, networks, and memory management.

Preferred Requirements

• Teradata Database administration experience.
• Knowledge or experience using Docker containers.
• Knowledge of Hadoop or Spark.
• Knowledge of network protocols and operations.

What we offer you:

• Highly Competitive Mayor and Minor Medical, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance.
• Teradata’s Pension Plan with 50% matching.
• Monthly Food and Restaurant Vouchers.
• Performance bonus aligned with your annual salary.
• Vacation days, Christmas bonus, and vacation bonus above the law standard.

In addition, our teams are encouraged to look for innovation, spending at least 1 week each quarter on development, learning new skills, and innovative technology/solutions. 

Link to apply:

http://gr.8job.co/5MhFmHhZ