Big Data isn’t a problem. It’s an opportunity.

At Alation, we help people find, understand, and trust data. So they not only excel in their work — they drive value for their enterprise, team, and role. In the words of one customer, “Alation makes me look like a rockstar.”

We help companies you know and trust empower their people with the best data every day. Alation helps Discover Financial Services quickly generate value from their data to create the product and customer service innovations that help the iconic credit card company remain number one in customer satisfaction. And real estate giant Keller Williams uses Alation to govern the more than 70 TB of data that empowers their global team of over 190,000 agents.

With $340M in funding – valued at over $1.7 billion and 550+ customers, including 35% of Fortune 100 companies- Alation is poised to capitalize on data as an opportunity. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Alation was named to Inc. Magazine’s Best Workplaces list for the fourth time. Do you want to join a team that welcomes new ideas, supports your growth, and recognizes your unique value?

Join us!

Job Description:

• You will be responsible for designing and implementing functional and end-to-end tests, and will work at UI, API and database levels
• Use your full breadth of experience as a QA Automation Engineer to test functionality, to write thoughtful manual and automated test cases, and use your programming skills to implement automation.
• Use your knowledge of databases, SQL and Linux to analyze and understand production environment, to reproduce difficult and complex customer issues in our labs, do root cause analysis, verify fixes, build test automation, and track them to closure
• Prepare a comprehensive plan/strategy to increase test coverage by automating production issues.
• Gain understanding of the product ecosystem and integration of the product with external systems.
• Use this knowledge to improve product quality and to increase test coverage through automation
• Continuously think about ways to develop maintainable and scalable test automation systems
• Drive continuous improvement of the software development and testing process Influence stakeholders across time zones and geographies to continuously raise the bar on quality, timeliness and innovation.
• You will be an expert in all areas of the product and will work with both internal and external teams to understand and reproduce Customer Issues and configurations in our Lab.
• You will be responsible for designing and implementing functional and end-to-end tests, and will work at UI, API and database levels

• Depth of knowledge in computer science (e.g., a CS degree or extensive experience)
• 5 to 7 years of relevant industry experience
• Experience in manual and automation testing
• Strong knowledge of QA methodology and tools
• Ability to analyze logs and have strong troubleshooting skills.
• Expertise in an assortment of test automation and scripting tools like Selenium, Python/Java
• Experience in developing automated scripts to test application functionality on different browsers
• Working experience in Unix/LinuxKnowledge of CI and Jenkins
• Strong experience in testing Enterprise products
• Good written communication skills

Alation, Inc. is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to that individual’s race, color, religion or creed, national origin or ancestry, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, veteran status, genetic information, ethnicity, citizenship, or any other characteristic protected by law.

The Company will strive to provide reasonable accommodations to permit qualified applicants who have a need for an accommodation to participate in the hiring process (e.g., accommodations for a job interview) if so requested.

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