Quality Assurance Engineer - Database Systems

As a QA Engineer for DuckDB, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the performance, reliability, and accuracy of DuckDB. Your primary responsibilities will include:

• Conducting thorough testing and quality assurance of DuckDB.
• Developing and executing test plans, test cases, and test scripts to validate the functionality of DuckDB’s SQL features and client APIs.
• Identifying and documenting software defects and issues and working closely with developers to ensure timely resolution.
• Participating in designing and implementing automated testing frameworks, tools, and fuzzers.
• Maintain and develop our Continuous Integration tools.

This position requires that you live in or be willing to relocate to Amsterdam or a nearby city.

You must already be allowed to work in the European Union. We are not able to arrange a working visa at this time.

Requirements

• 3+ years of industry experience.
• Strong expertise in SQL and experience with database APIs.
• Familiarity with Database Testing (e.g., Fuzzers).
• Familiarity with continuous integration practices and experience with GitHub CI/CD actions for automating testing and deployment processes.
• Good experience with at least three of DuckDB’s API Languages: Python, Java, R, JS, Rust.
• Knowledge of code versioning tools, particularly Git/GitHub.
• Native level of communication skills in English.
• You must be already allowed to work in the European Union.

Nice to have

• Bachelor in Computer Science.
• MSc or Ph.D. in Computer Science, plus if related to Database Testing.

Perks

• Possibility of traveling to scientific and industrial conferences.
• Opportunities to learn from and collaborate with other data analysis tool vendors
• Possibility of working two days from home.
• Flexible hours.