Senior Quality Engineer (Infrastructure)

Mclean - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 30+ days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Here at Appian our values of Intensity and Excellence define who we are. We set high standards and live up to them ensuring that everything we do is done with care and quality. We approach every challenge with ambition and commitment holding ourselves and each other accountable to achieve the best results. When you join Appian youll be part of a passionate team dedicated to accomplishing hard things together.

Senior Quality Engineers ensure the high quality and timely delivery of our software to customers. They serve as champions for the customer perspective - ensuring that quality is embedded into every stage of the development process. With a strong understanding of complex system interactions and dependencies they proactively identify potential risks and work cross-functionally to address them through thoughtful design and rigorous testing. Senior Quality Engineers analyze defects and delivery gaps to drive continuous improvement ensuring issues are not repeated and our standards of excellence are consistently upheld.

This role is based at our Headquarters in McLean Virginia. Appian was built on a culture of in-person collaboration which we believe is a key driver of our mission to be the best. Employees hired for this position are expected to be in the office 5 days a week to foster that culture and ensure we continue to thrive through shared ideas and teamwork. We believe being in the office provides more opportunities to come together and celebrate working with the exceptional people across Appian.

In this role you will:

Manually test and troubleshoot new features from a multitude of dimensions including functional integration end-to-end performance reliability and security across cloud infrastructure like Clusters Edge Layer Pods/Nods and API testing
Write automated test code using tools like Java Python and Selenium. Ability to apply test automation design and techniques
Support existing features by performing regression testing when bugs are resolved
Perform analysis research and troubleshooting of software defects and aid in the documentation of defects and anomalies.
Build maintain and improve test artifacts for rapid and efficient reuse by the Test Engineering team.
Work with other scrum team members to define and review Acceptance Criteria.
Participate in critical release activities for all platforms.
Ensure complete and timely reporting of bugs and test results.
Know and able to effectively apply test design techniques.
Systematically analyze requirements ensuring they provide effective input into Engineering activities.
Effectively and efficiently determine root causes of leaked defects.
Leads and/or participates in release management activities.

Basic Qualifications:

4 years of relevant experience (e.g. Quality Test Performance or Software Engineer)
Education: B.S. in Computer Science or related field
Experience writing automated test code using tools like Java Python and Selenium bash terraform go
Cloud Experience in AWS and Kubernetes. (e.g. Testing infrastructure like Clusters Edge Layer Pods/Nods)
Experience or good understanding of working with Unix OS

They can navigate and perform troubleshooting commands independently on a Unix server

Preferred Qualifications:

Have familiarity with networking concepts (TCP/IP UDP) as well as supporting networking components and know techniques of troubleshooting against this layer

DNS DHCP Load Balancers

Have awareness/experience in using monitoring tools/monitoring stack - prometheus grafana Alertmanager etc.
Experience conducting chaos engineering and resiliency testing for AWS and Kubernetes infrastructure to validate fault tolerance scalability and recovery.

Tools and Resources

Training and Development: During onboarding we focus on equipping new hires with the skills and knowledge for success through department-specific training. Continuous learning is a central focus at Appian with dedicated mentorship and the First-Friend program being widely utilized resources for new hires.
Growth Opportunities: Appian provides a diverse array of growth and development opportunities including our leadership program tailored for new and aspiring managers a comprehensive library of specialized department training through Appian University skills based training and tuition reimbursement for those aiming to advance their education. This commitment ensures that employees have access to a holistic range of development opportunities.
Community: Well immerse you into our community rooted in respect starting on day one. Appian fosters inclusivity through our 8 employee-led affinity groups. These groups help employees build stronger internal and external networks by planning social educational and outreach activities to connect with Appianites and larger initiatives throughout the company.

About Appian

Appian is a software company that automates business processes. The Appian AI-Powered Process Platform includes everything you need to design automate and optimize even the most complex processes from start to finish. The worlds most innovative organizations trust Appian to improve their workflows unify data and optimize operationsresulting in better growth and superior customer experiences. For more information visit . Nasdaq: APPN

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Here at Appian our values of Intensity and Excellence define who we are. We set high standards and live up to them ensuring that everything we do is done with care and quality. We approach every challenge with ambition and commitment holding ourselves and each other accountable to achieve the best r...