Engineer Ii - Vault Quality Engineer

Summary

Join the Vault team as an Engineer II, Quality Engineering and elevate the quality of our enterprise security product. You will design testing frameworks, develop automation tools, and foster a quality-focused culture. Leverage your expertise to secure enterprise data and ensure solution robustness. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality software. This role involves developing and executing test plans, collaborating on automation frameworks (Go/Terraform), and advocating for testing best practices. You will also participate in defining quality metrics and addressing customer-reported issues.

Requirements

• 4+ years in Quality Engineering, with proficiency in test automation frameworks
• A solid understanding of integration and performance testing
• Solid hands on coding and development experience with at least one programming language (Go is required)
• Experience and comfortable with writing unit and integration tests in Bash, Go, and JavaScript
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and integrating automated testing
• Familiarity with infrastructure management tools (experience with Vault is a plus!)
• Strong knowledge of networking and distributed systems
• A passion for automation, testing, and documentation
• Strong knowledge of observability tools such as Datadog and Grafana

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute detailed test plans, designs, and cases, ensuring robust coverage for feature, integration, regression, and system-level testing
• Collaborate with engineering teams to incorporate testing frameworks into the build process, focusing on operational effectiveness
• Contribute to the design and development of Go/Terraform-based automation frameworks, assisting in the creation of tools and utilities to enhance overall testing effectiveness
• Assist in the creation and maintenance of systems for performance testing Vault at large scale and in complex deployment topologies
• Advocate for a culture of testing across the organization, assisting Software Engineers in identifying and capitalizing on testing opportunities throughout the development process
• Participate in defining and monitoring quality metrics and risk assessment for releases, contributing to ensuring superior product quality
• Mainly program in Go, contributing to a team committed to continuous skill improvement
• Provide guidance to the technical leadership and strategic direction for the continuous improvement of the Vault Quality Engineering Team
• Partner with other quality engineers, nurturing a culture of high-quality work and continuous learning
• Collaborate with customer-facing teams (like PMs, UX, SEs) to better understand customer usage of our product and drive quality improvements
• Assist in designing, building, and maintaining automation that provisions infrastructure at scale and detects issues proactively
• Contribute to the development of long-term quality strategies and help shape quality standards, guidelines, and processes at the organizational level
• Execute prioritized test cases in cloud-based automated environments that mimic customer networking topologies and workloads
• Work with engineering and support teams to replicate and address customer-reported issues
• Participate in measuring and quantifying improvements in the quality of delivered software

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with Terraform a plus (not required)

Benefits

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