Principal Product Quality Engineer (IC4)

The Oracle Private Cloud Quality Engineering team is seeking a principal product quality engineer to join the fast-paced organization in streamlining and automating newly created product tests. As part of Oracle’s Cloud Core to Edge portfolio, the engineered systems offer a cost-effective solution for rapid, hybrid cloud deployment that is based upon Oracle Linux and Oracle VM technologies. Our product quality team manages many aspects of product testing including functional, system, and workload tests to certify that the product provides a unified, turnkey solution for customers with highest quality.

The candidate will be joining the exciting and challenge-driven team that supports the full cycle of system testing and automating of many feature tests of the product. This role offers an opportunity to build an excellent understanding of modern data center networking, virtualization, services, and storage that are based upon the cutting-edge cloud infrastructure technologies. If you are a great team player, self-motivated, quick learner, and excited to work in challenging environment, then this is right place for you.

The candidate is expected to have a strong background in architecting, designing, and implementing test automation using Python. The individual will be responsible for quality engineering of cloud services, storage systems, high availability, and applications in a fast-paced dynamic environment. The individual will play a key role in delivering highly critical technology in addition to supporting the development of internal test automation. 

Qualifications:

- 6 years of professional work experience in software test framework automation or infrastructure

- Excellent knowledge of test automation architecture, methodologies, processes, and tools

- Hands-on experience in testing and automating enterprise software

- Experience serving as team lead and with the ability to mentor junior members of the team

- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with flexibility to learn new methods

       - Outstanding collaboration and organizational skills

- Excellent listening, written, and verbal communication skills

- Creativity and innovation, fast learner and drive for results

- Methodical approach and attention to details

- Demonstrated skills in negotiation and conflict management

- Experience with test automation development using Python

- Understanding of Cloud computing, virtualization, hypervisors and cloud security

- Experience with operations and testing of Linux and storage systems is a plus

- MS / BS in Computer Science / Software Engineering / Electrical Engineering or equivalent

Career Level - IC4

Qualifications:

Disclaimer:

Certain US customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization and occupational health mandates.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $96,800 to $223,400 per annum. May be eligible for bonus and equity.

Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle’s differing products, industries and lines of business.
Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.

Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:
1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
2. Short term disability and long term disability
3. Life insurance and AD&D
4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
8. Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
9. 11 paid holidays
10. Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
11. Paid parental leave
12. Adoption assistance
13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan
14. Financial planning and group legal
15. Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance

The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.

Responsibilities:

- Review technical specifications on product features and utilize innovative test technologies to develop product and feature testing strategy 

- Architect test automation solutions that are based on best practices and newly available / proven test frameworks

- Write test plans that provide high level test approach as well as detailed test scenarios on system component, data services, interfaces, and interoperability.

- Design, implement, and automate test cases to ensure complete functional coverage of the appliance product

- Capture detailed, thorough, and useful information and file bug reports and be able to clearly explain the issues to development team for further troubleshooting

- Work closely with cross-functional project teams to develop project schedules, execute test plans and cases, and deliver high quality products

- Deliver automated test suites into continuous integration test system and support the Pre-Integration Test and System Test

- Contribute and deliver initiatives to improve the overall test process, such as identifying test gaps or inefficiencies in workflows; and suggesting improvements

Salary : $96,800 - $223,400