Build the future of data. Join the Snowflake team.
Our Quality Engineering team actively seeks Senior Software Engineers in Test to the Drivers team to join our fast-growing organization. In this role, you will drive the development of end-to-end automated tests, automation frameworks, and tools to have robust automated testing pipelines for the Snowflake Data Cloud.
It is a hands-on role in which you will design and code comprehensive testing frameworks while taking on a technical leadership role, improving the productivity of our development/Quality Engineering teams and bringing standardization to our processes and practices.
Reporting to the Quality Engineering Manager, you will collaborate with a world-class team of industry veterans and rising stars to ensure that we are shipping the highest quality service possible at each weekly release. It is an awesome opportunity to work with cutting-edge cloud technology in a highly visible role.
As a dynamic and seasoned Drivers team member, you will help build the client SDKs and server-side APIs that Snowflake’s customers use to extract value from the platform.
Drivers (including JDBC, ODBC, Go, .NET, Node.js) as software libraries facilitate access and multiple operations with Snowflake and aim to be used within customer applications for authentication, communication and handling variable data type operations as well as several transport protocols. They also provide a convenient way to transfer files between customers' infrastructure and AWS, Azure or GCP clouds supported by Snowflake.
IN THIS ROLE YOU WILL GET TO:
- Build, enhance and maintain automation frameworks utilized by the team to automate critical user scenarios for regression testing
- Drive quality across all disciplines, providing guidance, feedback, and suggestions to improve quality practices across the engineering organization
- Partner with a project team of engineers and Technical Program Managers to drive quality early and often in SDLC
- Contribute to technical leadership and strategic direction to continuously improve the Quality Engineering Organization
- Author and enhance test plans based on feature requirements and specifications, as well as technical discussions and deep dives with engineers
- Prioritize and execute test scenarios in a Snowflake environment that’s representative of customers’ schema and workloads
- Partner with Support and Engineering to investigate, troubleshoot and identify/implement fixes for customer-facing issues
ON DAY ONE WE WILL EXPECT YOU TO HAVE:
- 6+ years of industry experience in Quality Engineering with hands-on backend software testing experience, testing frameworks and test automation
- Passion for working with drivers, client SDKs and connectors across multiple platforms and spanning many languages
- Experience in performance testing
- In-depth knowledge and understanding of standard quality best practices, techniques and methodologies to drive continuous quality improvements
- Experience in designing custom test suites that test complex systems on a big scale
- High proficiency in one of the coding languages: Java / C# / C++ / Golang
- Proficiency in Node.js
- Experience with continuous integration / continuous deployment systems like Jenkins
- Experience in various test execution methods - integration, regression, exploratory testing
- Strong database understanding, including SQL
- High proficiency in Git
- Docker experience is a plus
WHY JOIN THE ENGINEERING TEAM AT SNOWFLAKE? AS A MEMBER OF OUR TEAM, YOU WILL:
- Build an industry-leading data management system that customers love
- Measurably impact an innovative product area central to Snowflake’s success
- Take charge of your own career- this role has the impact and ability to grow both technically, as well as from a leadership perspective
- Ensure the quality, performance, and reliability of a super-robust and secure enterprise SaaS platform that services hundreds of customers and millions of complex queries daily
- Learn at scale as you work on a highly scalable and reliable data processing platform that runs on hundreds and thousands of machines and executes Billions of queries
- Ensure that we are shipping the highest quality service possible at each release
- Join a world-class team of both industry veterans and rising stars
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