As a Quality Engineer, you will be responsible for designing and executing test strategies across manual and automated environments. You will work closely with developers, DevOps, and product teams to ensure high-quality releases for our product Percona Monitoring and Management through robust testing frameworks, and automation.
What Will You Do:Test Strategy & Execution: Design, implement, and execute test cases for web applications, APIs, and backend systems in an Agile environment.
Database Testing: Write and execute Database queries to validate data integrity and ensure end-to-end functionality. Experience working with MySQL, Postgresql, and MongoDB would be very helpful.
Automation Development: Develop and maintain test automation using Playwright (preferably in JavaScript) to ensure fast and reliable test coverage.
Scripting & Infrastructure: Utilize Python and Bash scripting for test automation, reporting, and CI/CD integrations.
CI/CD & DevOps: Work with GitHub Actions, Jenkins, and other CI/CD tools to automate test execution and reporting.
Containerization & Cloud: Work with Docker, Kubernetes (K8s), and related technologies to test and validate cloud-native applications.
Configuration Management & Deployment: Leverage Ansible for provisioning and configuration management in test environments.
Observability & Monitoring: Utilize Prometheus, Grafana, or similar monitoring tools to ensure system health and performance validation.
Manual & Exploratory Testing: To identify defects early in the development cycle, perform hands-on functional, regression, and exploratory testing.
Collaboration & Communication: Work closely with development, DevOps, and product teams to enhance test coverage and improve quality assurance processes.
Strong database knowledge (relational databases, non-relational databases) and ability to query/test data.
Hands-on experience in Playwright automation framework, preferably in JavaScript.
Proficiency in Python and Bash scripting for automation and debugging.
Experience with CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar tools.
Command-line proficiency: Navigating Linux via the terminal, managing files, using package managers like apt, yum, or dnf
Good understanding of Docker and Kubernetes, with exposure to cloud-based testing.
Familiarity with Ansible for infrastructure automation and configuration.
Experience with Observability & Monitoring tools such as Prometheus, and Grafana.
Good understanding of Agile methodologies, SDLC, and QA processes.
Strong communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively across teams.
Exposure to API testing tools like Postman, REST-assured, or similar.
Familiarity with performance testing tools like k6.
Experience with test management tools like TestRail, Zephyr, or similar.
Basic knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) is a plus.
Why Percona?
At Percona, we believe an open world is a better world. Our mission is to enable everyone to innovate freely, by providing the best open source database software, support, and services. We make databases and applications run better through a unique combination of expertise and open source software built with the community for you. Our technical teams are experts in MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and MariaDB.
Percona is proud to be a remote-only and globally dispersed workforce – we have colleagues in more than 50 countries! We offer a collaborative, highly-engaged culture where your ideas are welcome and your voice is heard.
Our staff receives generous benefits including flexible work hours and various paid time off programs, all your equipment for your remote office, funds for career development (external training, certifications, conferences), ongoing connectivity allowances, and the opportunity to participate in our equity incentive plan. We also have benefits that support a healthy work/life balance such as The Percona Adventure Team, Work-from-Anywhere, FlowDays, FryDays, and overall flexibility. We also support being socially responsible through our PAVE volunteering program and Women Transforming Technology.
If you love the idea of working with a high-growth tech company that is one of the best in the business and known globally as a leader in the open-source database space, let’s talk!
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What We Do
Percona is a leader in providing best-of-breed enterprise-class support, consulting, managed services, training and software for MySQL®, MariaDB®, MongoDB®, PostgreSQL® and other open source databases in on-premises and cloud environments. With Percona's open source database expertise, your business can avoid downtime and outages, meet expected customer experience, foster operational and developer collaboration, and manage enterprise risks through sound database architecture frameworks.
Our global experts are available 24x7x365 and have worked with over 3,000 clients worldwide – including the largest technology companies.
Percona is the champion of unbiased open source database solutions and provides the best solution for our customers regardless of their database architecture or platform. Our software is 100% free and open source, and is a drop-in replacement for MySQL and MongoDB databases.
Percona was founded in August 2006 by Peter Zaitsev and Vadim Tkachenko and now employs over 250 people (and growing!) located in almost 40 countries. Our large and diverse customer list boasts one of the highest renewal rates in the business. Our expertise is visible in our widely read Percona Database Performance blog and our book High Performance MySQL.
