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Join the Percona Everest team as a Senior Quality Engineer and lead quality efforts for our next-gen DBaaS platform. You'll drive end-to-end testing across UI, CLI, and API layers, working closely with developers, DevOps, and product teams. This role combines deep technical testing expertise, database knowledge, and leadership responsibility.
What You Will Do
Own and evolve test strategies for distributed, cloud-native applications.
Design and automate tests for Kubernetes-based deployments (EKS, GKE, OpenShift).
Validate database functionality and lifecycle operations (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB).
Build and maintain UI automation using Playwright.
Develop and execute API and CLI-based test scenarios.
Integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions.
Lead triaging, defect management, and QA decision-making.
Mentor junior QA engineers and collaborate cross-functionally.
What You Have Done
10–12 years of experience in Quality Engineering.
Exposure with leadership experience.
Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Helm, and Operators.
Strong command-line and Linux proficiency.
Solid understanding of database setup, backup, and recovery (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB).
Experience in Playwright automation (JS/TS preferred).
Strong API testing knowledge (Postman, REST-assured, or equivalent).
Familiarity with GitHub Actions and modern CI/CD workflows.
Experience with tools like TestRail, Zephyr, and JIRA.
What Will Make You Stand Out
Experience testing DBaaS platforms (Percona Everest, RDS, Atlas, etc.).
Familiarity with Helm chart testing, Operator validation, and CRD behavior.
Exposure to Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM), Grafana, Prometheus, and Loki.
Strong scripting in Python/Bash for test tooling and diagnostics.
Open-source contribution or hybrid deployment testing experience.
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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