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Details on the opening: Database Test and Tools Development team is looking for bright and talented engineers from top tier institutes to apply their ingenuity to test Oracles flagship product. It is an opportunity to demonstrate your skills as a Test Development Engineer for Oracles cloud enabled platforms by developing cloud enabled tests for various features in Database, Cloud services and Engineered systems. We need to develop tools/ framework and test applications/scripts and automate the test setup needed for the features of Oracle Kernel code we are testing and often would need to simulate functionality in a regular Linux machine to run functional tests. Please note that this is a programming position as all the tests/frameworks are applications which should exercise a feature in the yet to be released version of Oracle product. These test programs runs fully automated on a server farm - so our test framework need to configure, run test applications/inject failures, and verify results by itself. Even though some generic utilities are available, most of the features would need very specific test programs/frameworks. The opening is for an individual contributor position in Database test and tools development team. In this position, you will be working very closely with the feature development team to create a test plan/tools/infrastructure needed for the feature. You will also be reviewing the feature specifications (Functional Design spec) before it is finalized as your inputs from a customer perspective might be important in the implementation. Our primary development platform is Linux, and depending on the area you work on the coding would involve Perl, Python or C to develop test programs. The challenge and the advantage is in understanding the technology and apply it in a practical setup. What you gain: - Exposure to cutting edge technologies/products in database/cloud space - Work with core team of people from top colleges to build best in class Database products. - Deep dive into Database/Cluster/Cloud services domains. - Exposure to Open source technologies Docker, Jira, Kafka, ML. The group: Database test tools development group (part of the database server group of Server Technologies Division) works on the upcoming releases of Oracle database server, enveloping a wide range of technologies. My team works on test development for features like, Filesystems, Database In-memory, Space/Transaction management, Clustering, Backup/Recovery, Distributed database(Sharding), Storage technologies, Oracle Exadata and Oracle Database Appliance . The group with its state of the art development infrastructure and practices, helps shape technology that has been important for a large number of Fortune 2000 and other companies. The group foresees product usage scenarios, simulates real life problems, tests the forthcoming releases of Oracle database server and ensures that the customers get the highest quality database. Requirement: - B.Tech/M.Tech C.S. from a premier institution. - Candidates with good relational database fundamentals. - Web applications and desktop applications QA : Experience in Oracle DB, SQL. - Exposure to latest Oracle database features is desirable - Must have excellent hands on experience in test design, development and execution. - Experience in web automation using Selenium tools or other open source tools in PC or Mobile platform is required. - Product development QA, Product integration QA / automation web applications QA background. - Experience in using and configuration of RESTful Services and configuration of Oracle DB. - Excellent quality work, results oriented, Independent/Personal Drive, Good troubleshooting skills required. - Excellent communication (written and verbal), interpersonal and good team player. - Ability and enthusiasm to learn new technologies, adeptness in seeking solutions to complex problems. Duties and tasks are varied and complex needing independent judgment. Fully competent in own area of expertise. May have project lead role and or supervise lower level personnel. BS or MS degree or equivalent experience relevant to functional area. 4 years of software engineering or related experience. As part of the Server Technologies, you will work together with the team members in the US headquarter and India Development Center (IDC) to design, develop and maintain a top grade software test system, which are being used by hundreds of thousands of users worldwide. You will have the opportunity to explore the latest technologies in Java, JDBC and the latest version of the Oracle databases, including our various cloud offerings. Provide technical leadership to other software developers. Specify, design and implement modest changes to existing software architecture to meet changing needs.
