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Senior QA Engineer - Database
Posted 16 days agoViewed
💎 Seniority level: Senior
🔍 Industry: Software Development
🏢 Company: Timescale👥 101-250💰 $110,000,000 Series C about 3 years agoDatabaseComputerInformation ServicesSoftware
Requirements:
- Deep understanding of SQL, query optimization, and preferably PostgreSQL internals, including indexes, transactions, and extensions.
- Ability to test database extensions, ensuring correctness, performance, and stability under different workloads.
- Proficiency in writing automated tests using frameworks like pgTAP, pytest, or custom scripts in Python, Bash, or SQL.
- Familiarity with tools like pgbench to assess extension performance, scalability, and impact on PostgreSQL.
- Experience integrating automated database testing into CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions).
- Ability to analyze PostgreSQL logs, crash dumps, and query plans to identify performance bottlenecks and issues.
Responsibilities:
- Take ownership of developing and maintaining automated test suites for database features, query execution, and performance benchmarks.
- Be part of the database team and advocate for best practices in delivering high-quality software products.
- Assess database performance under various workloads, ensuring scalability and efficiency.
- Validate backward compatibility and ensure new changes do not break existing functionality for Timescale Cloud and on-prem deployments.
- Identify vulnerabilities, enforce access controls, and verify compliance with security best practices.
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