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:

What you'll do:

• Design and develop automated tests using Selenium, Cypress, Postman, and other automation frameworks.

• Create comprehensive test cases from stories/requirements, covering all basic, alternate, and exception/edge scenarios to ensure a high-quality product.

• Plan and implement both functional and end-to-end tests for UI and API.

• Keep existing test cases updated and relevant.

• Participate in technical design reviews and share valuable feedback.

• Understand production environment issues, verify fixes, build test automation, and track them to closure.

• Gain an understanding of the product ecosystem and its integration with external systems to enhance product quality and increase test coverage through automation.

• Continuously suggest and implement ways to develop maintainable and scalable test automation systems.

• Exhibit a quality-first mindset and drive continuous improvement of the testing process.

• Prevent defect leaks in areas of ownership.

• Participate in automation code reviews to ensure high-quality code.

• Stay up-to-date with the latest testing methodologies and tools.

• Mentor junior team members and drive discussions for continuous improvement within the team.

• Take responsibility and accountability for overall quality, and be capable of independently managing tasks and driving progress.

• Create and maintain reusable scripts for non functional tests and develop process guides for other team members to follow.

You should have:

• Degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent experience.

• 4+ years of QA and automation experience

• Hands-on experience in test automation and scripting tools like Selenium.

• Experience in doing non-functional testing like usability and performance testing.

• Working experience with relational databases like (Oracle/SQLServer/snowflake etc).

• Experience in developing automated test suites for execution with CI/CD pipelines.

• Ability to analyze and troubleshoot complex defects

• Ability to quickly learn new technologies and methodologies in a self-starting environment

• Experience gathering and investigating test metrics to drive improvements

• Strong written and verbal communication skills. Ability to lead discussions

• Growth mindset and willingness to collaborate with developers, product managers and SDETs

• Good understanding of software development lifecycle.

Good to have

• Experience in working with API testing.

• Knowledge of RESTful APIs and ability to test APIs using Postman or similar tools.

• Solid working experience of Cloud, multi-tenant and SaaS models

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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