Quality Engineer (MySQL)

Percona takes pride in delivering stable and reliable software to our users. We are seeking a skilled Quality Engineer to join our MySQL team. In this role, you’ll support our distributed engineering team by maintaining and improving the quality of our software products—both as part of the release process and through continuous improvement.

Your responsibilities will include analyzing and reporting defects captured by our automated testing frameworks, defining and implementing new test cases, and enhancing the scalability and effectiveness of our testing capabilities and infrastructure.

You will work from your home office, using online tools and resources to contribute to a high-quality environment for Percona and its customers.

What You Will Do:

• Contribute to the DevOps and release management lifecycle, which includes coordinating, testing, and managing releases in collaboration with the Percona server engineering teams

• Evaluate and improve Percona products and new features based on the test plan, locating product issues & bugs

• Monitor and analyze/log failures of automated regression, performance, packaging, and/or other automated test systems

• Perform monitoring and improve Percona's automation testing systems & infrastructure

• Research and recommend tools, behaviors, and strategies for improving test processes

• Utilize scripting languages such as Shell or Python to enhance testing and improve automation

What You Have Done:

• Solid debugging skills and experience (e.g., analyzing log files, spotting patterns)

• Good knowledge of test methods in agile software development environments

• Familiar with established test tools as well as with methods for test automation

• Experience with tools for tracking and documenting development processes (JIRA, Notion, git) is an advantage.

• Solid Linux sysadmin skills (e.g., adding/removing software, enabling/disabling services, general Unix/Linux CLI tools)

• Working with automation tools (Ansible, Jenkins, CI/CD)

• Automating tasks using Shell or other scripting languages

• Experience with networking, hardware, file systems, server connectivity, etc.

• Good communicator & fluent in written and spoken English

• Quick learner and a great team player

What Makes You Stand Out:

• Previous exposure and experience in database-related technologies, for example, in a DBA, support, or development role

• Experience with compiling/building/packaging/release engineering/yum/apt

• Coding skills in any language, preferably C/C++

• Previous experience with container or virtualization environments

• Proven success working in a distributed environment

• A tertiary studies degree or certifications related to core skills

• Supplemental MySQL technologies

We encourage individuals who may not meet all the listed requirements to still apply. We are committed to investing in people who demonstrate potential and unique perspectives.

Why Percona?

At Percona, we believe an open world is a better world. Our mission is to enable everyone to innovate freely, by providing the best open source database software, support, and services. We make databases and applications run better through a unique combination of expertise and open source software built with the community for you. Our technical teams are experts in MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and MariaDB.

Percona is proud to be a remote-only and globally dispersed workforce – we have colleagues in more than 50 countries! We offer a collaborative, highly-engaged culture where your ideas are welcome and your voice is heard.

Our staff receives generous benefits including flexible work hours and various paid time off programs, all your equipment for your remote office, funds for career development (external training, certifications, conferences), ongoing connectivity allowances, and the opportunity to participate in our equity incentive plan. We also have benefits that support a healthy work/life balance such as The Percona Adventure Team, Work-from-Anywhere, FlowDays, FryDays, and overall flexibility. We also support being socially responsible through our PAVE volunteering program and Women Transforming Technology.

If you love the idea of working with a high-growth tech company that is one of the best in the business and known globally as a leader in the open-source database space, let’s talk!

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