Big Data isn’t a problem. It’s an opportunity.

At Alation, we help people find, understand, and trust data. So they not only excel in their work — they drive value for their enterprise, team, and role. In the words of one customer, “Alation makes me look like a rockstar.”

We help companies you know and trust empower their people with the best data every day. Alation helps Discover Financial Services quickly generate value from their data to create the product and customer service innovations that help the iconic credit card company remain number one in customer satisfaction. And real estate giant Keller Williams uses Alation to govern the more than 70 TB of data that empowers their global team of over 190,000 agents.

With $340M in funding – valued at over $1.7 billion and 550+ customers, including 35% of Fortune 100 companies- Alation is poised to capitalize on data as an opportunity. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Alation was named to Inc. Magazine’s Best Workplaces list for the fourth time. Do you want to join a team that welcomes new ideas, supports your growth, and recognizes your unique value?

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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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