Senior Test Engineer

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.

What You'll Do

 Primary responsibility is to perform feature testing for Cloud Native Database features. This includes understanding feature specifications early in the development cycle to create test specifications, test cases, and test plans under the guidance of feature test architects.

Additional responsibility will include isolating and troubleshooting the problems and providing assistance to the developers in resolving problems.

The candidate will need to collaborate closely with feature architects/manager, the product owner, and other team members. Proficiency in programming languages such as C, Shell, and Python is mandatory. Strong understanding of SQL will be an additional advantage. The ideal candidate should also be capable of creating feature, unit, and performance test cases, as well as automation scripts.

 What Makes You a Qualified Candidate

Bachelor's/master's degree in computer science or related field with 5+ years of programming experience and/or software testing experience. 

 Job Requirements:

• Ability to understand product features and functionalities from design documents
• Ability to write feature test specifications, developing the test cases and automating them, testing of bug fixes, providing assistance in debugging and isolating the problems
• Experience working in Unix/Linux environments.
• Experience working with Relational Databases (RDBMS) and SQL.
• Understanding and designing test frameworks for test
• Working experience in Agile Software Development with exposure to test driven development
• Good technical/conceptual performance testing knowledge
• Proficient in any of the scripting languages
• Good knowledge in CICD and DevOps tools
• Expertise in the utilization of AI and analytical tools based on the requirements

Key Areas of Responsibility:

• Responsible primarily for the feature testing of cloud database features.
• Participate in understanding of feature enhancements and creation of test specifications, cases and plan as needed. 
• Develop test scripts either using C language, Shell scripting, Python etc.
• Write technical documents that accurately describe unit test plans and reports.
• Execute tests according to approved test plans.
• Aptitude for understanding complex software from the functional and technical perspective.
• Report progress against objectives on periodic basis

 Scope:

• Individual Contributor
• Works with project team members and architects and reports to engineering manager

What You'll Bring

• Strong programming skills with Python, Perl, Shell etc.
• Strong in SQL and AWS or Azure area
• Software development experience in Linux/Unix Environment
• Ability to learn and adapt to new technology
• Attention to detail
• Ability to follow documented specifications and plans with minimal supervision
• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Works well in a team environment

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