Software Engineer

Summary Description

This Software Engineer position will be responsible for working with the Teradata Dual Active Engineering team to develop & automate tests and procedures for Teradata Dual Active products. Successful candidates will have experience programming in various ETL and Business Intelligence (BI) tools. and must have implemented test procedures (including functional, integration, boundary, and load-testing) required to ensure a complete QA in product development life-cycle. They will be well versed in working in and contributing to a fully agile and an automated development and test process.

Key Areas of Responsibility

Design and develop automated tests using various ETL and Business Intelligence (BI) tools to verify product operation and interoperability including Unit, Feature & Performance assessments Contribute to the test development efforts to build/maintain state-of-the-art test framework Design and execute complex test plans to simulate Dual-Active Data Warehouse environment with data load (ETL), failure & recovery and boundary test conditions Participate in an Agile software development & test process Develop & automate tests to certify & enhance required software quality Analyze and troubleshoot issues and test conditions; analyze product resource utilization and recommend alternatives to improve performance Assist product engineers in the identification, reproduction and resolution of product defects Provide & implement recommendations/suggestions to improve testing efficiency

Skills & Attributes

The ideal candidate will have proven software development experience, excellent analytical skills, ability to plan and organize and strong interpersonal and communications skills. The successful candidate will have solid experience programming utilizing various ETL and Business Intelligence (BI) tools, working knowledge of high performance data warehousing and computing environments. The ideal candidate will have experience and knowledge of software development best practices and experience in developing tests on Linux and other UNIX platforms.

Requirements

US Permanent Residence; Bachelor's degree in CS with 3-5 years of Software development and/or engineering experience, including but not limited to:; Proficient knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle & methodologies; Test automation - Unit, Functional, Integration & GUI tests; Knowledge of load testing (ETL) in real-time multi-tier architectures; Knowledge of Quality Assurance methodologies; Unix Shell, Perl, SQL; Programming in various ETL and Business Intelligence (BI) tools

Nice to have

Experience in an Agile development process such as XP and Scrum; Experience with Confluence, Jira, Subversion, Clover, TestNG, TeamCity; Teradata Database experience