Senior Software Test Engineer

StrongDM lives by a very simple principle: Put People First. 
That means we do the right things by our colleagues, employees and customers. It also means developing products and solutions that improve the lives of our customers. Our commitment to People First is one of the reasons our year-over-year customer retention rate is an industry-leading 98%. Once a customer, forever a fan. That's our goal. 
When you work at StrongDM, you work with people who care, technology that works, and customers who are obsessed with both the product and the support they receive. 
If you ask any employee of StrongDM, you’ll find that our values truly are our guiding principles in everything we do–from how we make decisions to how we treat each other. That’s because these values represent the foundation for our culture and who we are as a company. It sounds cliche, we know. But trust us—we’re onto something good. G2 can confirm. ✔️
1. We embrace the mission2. We pursue mastery3. We are people first4. We are smarter together
These are the values we seek to cultivate as an organization. They inform not just how we behave as individuals and teams, but also the unspoken traits of the candidates we hire and perspectives we take when helping and supporting customers. Speaking of candidates, we’re so glad you’re here! If this sounds like an environment you’d thrive in, read on.
As a senior test engineer you will take the lead on building our end to end test infrastructure.  You will plan, design, automate, and execute automation plans.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Deliver end to end quality and automation independently using agile methodologies
• Translate product, specifications into robust test plans covering all aspects of testing including smoke, functional, reliance, performance, load, scalability and security
• Evaluate, apply, document, and evangelize the latest tools, techniques and research insights to drive improvements into a world-class data analytics engine
• Push for continuous improvement in Testing within the team and across the engineering organization
• Develop robust test automation that is reliable and maintainable and provides accurate assessment of product quality
• Integrate test automation scripts into build system for repeatable execution
• Collaborate with other engineering and customer success functions to simulate customer data and usage patterns to execute test runs, identify and fix customer issues and make sure that customers get highly reliable, reliant, optimized Dremio experience
• Analyze and debug customer issues in customer environments
• Actively participate in code and design reviews to maintain exceptional quality and deepen your understanding of the system architecture and implementation

REQUIREMENTS:

• 5+ years of QA/automation engineering experience on large scale distributed systems
• Proficiency in Python and/or Go and automation frameworks
• Hands on experience with AWS, Terraform and other similar cloud technologies
• Hands on experience in integration of automation using CI/CD tools
• Experience in planning and executing QA/Automation tasks to completion and taking ownership of quality during a set of sprints
• Experience in designing, implementing, executing and analyzing automated  tests for complex, production system software

COMPENSATION:

• $130,000-$160,000 DOE + equity
• Company sponsored benefits, including:
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance (free to employees and dependents)
• 401k, HSA, FSA, short / long-term disability coverage, life insurance6 weeks of combined accrued vacation + sick time
• Volunteer days + standard holidays
• 24 weeks paid parental leave for everyone + 1 month transition time back + childcare stipend for first year
• Generous monthly and annual stipend for internet + home office
• No travel required