Remote QA Engineer

Summary

Join SingleStore's Quality Assurance team and contribute to building cutting-edge distributed SQL database systems. As a Software Development Engineer in Test, you will design, develop, and implement scalable performance and correctness testing systems. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines, and act as a Designated Responsible Individual for resolving system issues. This role requires strong coding and design skills, experience with distributed systems, and familiarity with various testing frameworks. SingleStore offers a remote opportunity, flexible working hours, medical insurance, death and accidental insurance, a monthly long weekend, and various allowances.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent technical field
• Background with building test and automation systems for large-scale, distributed data-processing systems
• Proven experience developing software in Python, C/C++, SQL
• Experience working on Linux-based environments, including command-line proficiency and shell scripting
• Strong coding and design skills
• Familiarity with distributed systems, database systems, and networking concepts
• Experience with CI/CD systems (CircleCI,GitLab CI, Github Actions)
• Strong analytical and debugging skills to diagnose complex system issues

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and implement scalable performance and correctness testing systems
• Participate in product design reviews, contributing insights on functional requirements, testability, and quality
• Develop and execute manual and automated tests to validate core product features and functionality
• Build and maintain test automation tools using frameworks like Playwright, Selenium, and Pytest
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Sales, Marketing, Documentation, and Technical Support) to address quality objectives and user requirements
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (e.g., CircleCI, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions) to enable rapid, reliable software delivery
• Act as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) for monitoring, troubleshooting, and resolving system/product issues, ensuring service availability
• Leverage expertise in distributed systems and data-processing technologies to develop effective QA strategies for large-scale, distributed databases
• Drive quality engineering practices by conducting and participating in code reviews
• Continuously improve testing methodologies, processes, and frameworks to ensure efficiency and effectiveness

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with testing frameworks such as Cypress, TestRail, and Pytest
• Experience with container orchestration tools like Kubernetes
• Knowledge of API testing frameworks (e.g., Postman, Swagger) and performance testing tools (e.g., Locust, JMeter)
• Understanding of modern monitoring and observability practices
• Knowledge of Page Object / Page Factory Patterns and other advanced QA design patterns
• Experience in QA and knowledge of testing methodology

Benefits

• Medical Insurance with family members covered
• Death and Accidental insurance coverage
• Remote opportunity
• One Long Weekend every month
• Phone, Internet & Wellness allowance
• Opportunity to work in a global team
• Flexible working hours