Lead Quality Assurance Engineer at TigerGraph

• Seven out of the top ten global banks use TigerGraph for real-time fraud detection. 
• Over 50 million patients receive care path recommendations to assist them on their wellness journey. 
• 300 million consumers receive personalized offers with recommendation engines powered by TigerGraph. 
• TigerGraph reduces power outages by optimizing the energy infrastructure for 1 billion people. 

As a QA engineer lead, your job responsibilities will be:

• Be the technical leader of the QA team and work with a team of QA engineers to maintain the quality, performance, and reliability of the database engine
• Build and own an efficient tooling and automation testing pipeline
• Driving projects and initiatives to improve the quality of the database
• Work with development teams to design and implement testing and testing automation for new features. 
• Establish conventions, best practices, and processes for the team to continuously improve on quality gates

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field
• 5+ years of industry experience designing and building distributed systems testing

Skills and Knowledge

• Experience working on testing a DB as a service product
• Strong ownership of product quality
• Strong passion for making developers highly productive
• Strong technical acuity and design sense for test authoring ergonomics
• Fluency in Bash and Python.
• Proficient in using AI to automate tasks. 
• Strong experience with Jira and Confluence automation. 
• Experience with Jenkins, Docker, and Kubernetes. 
• Experience working with modern test framework tooling
• Ability to work in a team environment, collaborate well, and mentor junior engineers.
• A strategic mindset and a strong sense of what to prioritize for maximum impact.
• Excellent interpersonal communication skills.
• Outstanding written and oral English language skills.
• Proven experience with authoring roadmap documents, project plans, and RCAs.

BONUS POINTS FOR EXPERIENCE WITH THE FOLLOWING :

• Experience with Database testing
• Large-scale test-related issues (flakiness, performance, selection, quality)
• Multi-tenant systems, with a focus on reliability, performance, isolation, and security.
• A track record of leading distributed technical teams
• Lead a team of talented and high-performing engineers in the design, development, and support of a highly distributed and scalable graph engine. 
• Lead and participate in technical design and roadmap discussions relating to areas like Query Processing, Graph Storage, Performance, Scalability, and Reliability. 
• Have a direct impact on the growth and development of the team through mentorship, coaching, and identifying other growth opportunities.
• Demonstrate strong communication skills and the ability to work seamlessly across teams and organizations. Partner well with other leaders in the Engineering and Product organization on rhythms like annual & quarterly planning, staffing, project schedules, resource allocation, and more
• Be comfortable and effective in delegation - effectively leveraging Senior & Principal engineers to maximize your team’s impact
• Know when and how to shift resources across areas to achieve execution goals, while also ensuring effective ownership and longer-term alignment of work and skills
• Translate product requirements into engineering work for your team, partnering closely with peers in Product and other disciplines, to make our vision a reality!
• Use your strong technical foundation to set the bar for your team - build to last, deliver, and keep the quality exceptionally high!