Lead/Senior QA Engineer (Performance/ Database Testing)

Overview

• Own end-to-end non-functional testing for the product, including reliability, scalability, performance, and security.
• Validate all core and newly developed features through comprehensive functional and non-functional testing.
• Plan and execute release testing to ensure production readiness.
• Design and execute high-availability and chaos engineering tests, including fault injection, failure recovery, and resilience validation.
• Perform engine and system-level performance benchmarking.
• Conduct load, stress, and scalability testing using industry-standard tools.
• Execute long-running and soak tests to identify memory leaks, resource exhaustion, and stability issues.
• Test cloud-based applications across backend and frontend layers.
• Perform GUI and usability testing for cloud applications.
• Validate cloud releases, including backend and frontend components.
• Test query languages and execution layers, including:
• GSQL and Cypher syntax validation
• Functional testing of all GSQL features
• GSQL/Cypher performance and scalability testing
• Automate test cases and integrate them into CI/CD pipelines.
• Reproduce, analyze, and debug customer-reported issues in complex distributed environments.
  

• Proven experience testing distributed systems or distributed databases.
• Strong automation skills using Bash and Python.
• Hands-on experience with modern test frameworks and CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Docker, and Kubernetes.
• Experience with performance and load testing tools, including:
• Apache JMeter, OpenSTA
• k6, Locust, Gatling, The Grinder
• Test automation experience using Cypress, Cucumber, Playwright, or Selenium.
• Strong experience in API testing.
• Excellent skills in profiling and debugging using tools like perf and FlameGraphs.
• Solid understanding of Agile development methodologies.
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP, including VMs, networking, storage, and Kubernetes.
  

• Experience in database-specific testing and performance tuning.
• Exposure to multi-tenant system testing, including reliability, performance isolation, and security.
• Prior leadership or mentoring experience within distributed QA or test engineering teams.