Customers trust the Alation Data Intelligence Platform for self-service analytics, cloud transformation, data governance, and AI-ready data, fostering data-driven innovation at scale. With more than $340M in funding – valued at over $1.7 billion and nearly 600 customers, including 40% of the Fortune 100 — Alation helps organizations realize value from data and AI initiatives.
Alation has been recognized in 2024 as one of Inc. Magazine's Best Workplaces for the fifth time, a testament to our commitment to creating an inclusive, innovative, and collaborative environment. Collaboration is at the forefront of everything we do. We strive to bring diverse perspectives together and empower each team member to contribute their unique strengths to live out our values each day. These are: Move the Ball, Build for the Long Term, Listen Like You’re Wrong, and Measure Through Customer Impact. Joining Alation means being part of a fast-paced, high-growth company where every voice matters, and where we’re shaping the future of data intelligence with AI-ready data. Join us on our journey to build a world where data culture thrives and curiosity is celebrated each day!
Job Description:
What you'll do:
Design and develop automated tests using Selenium, Cypress, Postman, and other automation frameworks.
Design test cases from stories/requirements that cover all the basic, alternate, and exception scenarios to deliver a high-quality product.
Plan and implement functional and end-to-end tests that will work at UI and API.
Maintain and keep the existing test cases updated.
Participate in technical design reviews and share feedback
Understand production environment issues, verify fixes, build test automation, and track them to closure.
Gain an understanding of the product ecosystem and integration of the product with external systems. Use this knowledge to improve product quality and increase test coverage through automation.
Continuously suggest about ways to develop maintainable and scalable test automation systems.
Develop or exhibit a quality first mindset
Drive continuous improvement of the testing process.
Test functionality, write thoughtful manual and automated test cases, and use your programming skills to implement automation.
Prevent defect leaks for areas of ownership.
Understand the product on the whole and will work with both internal and external teams to understand and reproduce Customer Issues and configurations.
Participate in code reviews to ensure the quality of the code.
Stay up-to-date with the latest testing methodologies and tools.
You should have:
2+ years of QA experience
Hands-on experience in test automation and scripting tools like Cypress and Selenium.
Working experience with relational databases like (Oracle/SQLServer/snowflake etc) would be a plus.
Experience in working with API testing.
Knowledge of RESTful APIs and ability to test APIs using Postman or similar tools.
Experience in doing non-functional testing like usability and performance testing.
Good understanding of software development lifecycle.
Passionate about product testing.
Alation, Inc. is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to that individual’s race, color, religion or creed, national origin or ancestry, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, veteran status, genetic information, ethnicity, citizenship, or any other characteristic protected by law. The Company will strive to provide reasonable accommodations to permit qualified applicants who have a need for an accommodation to participate in the hiring process (e.g., accommodations for a job interview) if so requested.
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