[Hiring] QA Engineer @Timescale

Feb 23, 2025 - Timescale is hiring a remote QA Engineer. 💸 Salary: unspecified. 📍Location: Europe.

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Role Description

This role involves testing and ensuring the quality of database features at Timescale.

Test Automation & Execution: Take ownership of developing and maintaining automated test suites for database features, query execution, and performance benchmarks.
Collaboration: Be part of the database team and advocate for best practices in delivering high-quality software products.
Performance & Scalability Testing: Assess database performance under various workloads, ensuring scalability and efficiency.
Regression & Compatibility Testing: Validate backward compatibility and ensure new changes do not break existing functionality for Timescale Cloud and on-prem deployments.
Security & Compliance Testing: Identify vulnerabilities, enforce access controls, and verify compliance with security best practices.

Qualifications

Strong SQL Knowledge: Deep understanding of SQL, query optimization, and preferably PostgreSQL internals, including indexes, transactions, and extensions.
Experience with Database Testing: Ability to test database extensions, ensuring correctness, performance, and stability under different workloads.
Automation & Scripting Skills: Proficiency in writing automated tests using frameworks like pgTAP, pytest, or custom scripts in Python, Bash, or SQL.
Performance & Benchmarking Expertise: Familiarity with tools like pgbench to assess extension performance, scalability, and impact on PostgreSQL.
Familiarity with CI/CD for Databases: Experience integrating automated database testing into CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions).
Debugging & Log Analysis Skills: Ability to analyze PostgreSQL logs, crash dumps, and query plans to identify performance bottlenecks and issues.

Requirements

Nice to Have:
Experience with TimescaleDB
Knowledge of PostgreSQL Extension Ecosystem
Understanding of PostgreSQL internals and ability to debug or review extension code written in C.
Active participation in PostgreSQL or extension-related open-source projects.
Basic knowledge of Kubernetes

Benefits

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QA Engineer @Timescale

Salary 💸 unspecified	Remote Location Europe
Job Type full-time	Posted Feb 23, 2025

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