Software Quality Assurance Engineer

About the role

We are looking for a qualified and dedicated Quality Engineer to make full use of the Dell QA environment.

This person will collaborate with Dell to ensure quality standards are met for the Spark solution and its integration with the Dell Datalake Appliance. The role involves representing quality considerations during design discussions with Starburst Engineering teams.

As a QA Engineer at Starburst, you will:

• Build, deploy and maintain the testing environment (k8s, Helm, testing frameworks - Playwright, Atlas)
• Setup, upgrade, and manage Dell’s Appliance components
• Prepare and document test plans and review with Dell
• Increase our coverage of automation and manual testing, including:
• End-to-end integration testing - ensuring that our code works with all of the other components of the Dell appliance.
• Stress and performance testing - ensuring resiliency, stability, and performance baseline
• Spark specific testing -  write python code and prepare data sets for Spark workloads submission including Batch, Structured Streaming, and Interactive data processing(e.g. notebook)
• Ecosystem testing - validate integrations with Airflow, BI Tools, Kerberos, and more.

Some of the things we look for:

• 3+ years of experience as a software engineer in test
• Demonstration of ownership, grit, and bias for action - core values at Starburst
• Demonstrated experience with software engineering and design best practices
• Experience developing software in Java is a plus, but it’s not required in this role.
• Experience developing software in Python is a plus, but it’s not required in this role.

Bonus Points

• Familiarity with Trino
• Familiarity with Apache Spark and its ecosystem
• Experience contributing to open-source software

Where could this role be based?

• Poland / EMEA