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An ideal candidate would be a hands-on developer (Java,Python preferred) with full-fledged testing mindset. The role entitles to engage with large-scale distributed systems hence Data Structures, Algorithms, OOPS, Design Patterns along with Test automation framework design and development.

• Lead/contribute to engineering efforts from planning and organization to execution and delivery to solve complex engineering problems in quality and development.
• Design and build the advanced automated testing framework, tools and automated test suites, in Python (pytest), Shell, Java (TestNG/JUnit), Linux.
• Good knowledge of test methodologies, creating test cases and test plans and work knowledge in data replication, data processing, and data protection.
• Strong work experience in cost-based query optimization, join planning, and query access paths and database internals, query optimization and QE workflows.
• Build, enhance and maintain automation frameworks for scalability, stability, and performance.
• Define the optimum suites for sanity, regression, smoke, deployment verification etc., and advanced aspects of system testing automation. 

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