Senior Quality Engineer - Infrastructure

Veeva Systems Inc; Toronto; On-site; USD 90,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Quality Engineer to join their innovative Vault Infrastructure team. This role involves testing and improving vital infrastructure modules for a rapidly growing SaaS platform in the Life Sciences sector. You will leverage your expertise in cloud technologies and automation to ensure the quality and reliability of the product. This forward-thinking company values flexibility, allowing you to work from home or in the office, fostering an environment where you can thrive. Join a team of driven engineers dedicated to collaboration and continuous learning, and make a meaningful impact in the life sciences industry.

Qualifications

• Experience with cloud infrastructure and white-box testing.
• Strong programming skills for automation and optimizing testing.
• Ability to provide technical leadership and mentorship.

Responsibilities

• Develop and improve infrastructure test environments.
• Create documentation for testing strategies and bug reports.
• Collaborate with product managers and engineers on quality assurance.

Skills

Infrastructure Validation

White-box testing

Cloud infrastructure technologies

Automation skills

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

AWS EC2

Docker

Kubernetes

GitLab

GitHub

Ansible

Terraform

ELK Stack

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Senior Quality Engineer - Infrastructure

Veeva Systems is a mission-driven organization and pioneer in industry cloud, helping life sciences companies bring therapies to patients faster. As one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies in history, we surpassed $2B in revenue in our last fiscal year with extensive growth potential ahead.

At the heart of Veeva are our values: Do the Right Thing, Customer Success, Employee Success, and Speed. We're not just any public company – we made history in 2021 by becoming a public benefit corporation (PBC), legally bound to balancing the interests of customers, employees, society, and investors.

As a Work Anywhere company, we support your flexibility to work from home or in the office, so you can thrive in your ideal environment.

We're hiring experienced Quality Engineers at all levels to join the Vault Infrastructure team. Vault is a rapidly growing SaaS platform product in the Life Sciences industry encompassing the fields of pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, and medical devices.

You'll help us build and deploy core infrastructure modules that are vital to the Veeva Vault product platform, enabling us to deploy dependable, resilient, and seamless solutions to meet our customers' growing needs.

Our Infrastructure team is made up of smart, driven engineers who prioritize collaboration, excel in a fast-paced setting, and embrace opportunities to learn and develop.

What You'll Do

• Understand Vault infrastructure architecture to test infra changes utilizing AWS/Kubernetes/Docker experience
• Setup/maintain/test/improve infrastructure test environment
• Develop and contribute to test strategy for Infrastructure features including Zero downtime upgrades/HA/DR etc.
• Create testing-related documentation, including test plans, test cases/scripts, and bug reports assessing quality and associated risk
• Perform QA activities such as test execution, bug verifications, triage automation results, etc., and verify outcomes within release milestones
• Apply your programming skills toward automating and optimizing the testing of cloud-based Infrastructure
• Build, maintain, and improve the existing automation framework, test harness, and processes
• Contribute to technical discussions during design/implementation reviews and influence decisions that will help build quality into the product from the get-go
• Help with hiring, onboarding, and mentoring other team members by providing guidance, feedback, etc.
• Work closely with product managers, software engineers, and other QA engineers

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering or a related technical field
• Experience with white-box testing or Infrastructure Validation (Deployment, HA, DR, etc.)
• Experience with cloud infrastructure technologies such as AWS EC2, S3, DynamoDB, SQS, Load balancers, IAM, EKS, and other AWS services
• Experience supporting multiple features in a fast-paced environment with sometimes competing priorities
• Provide technical leadership to junior teammates and QA team members, enabling them to achieve targeted automation goals
• Experience with code coverage tools and metrics
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Experience with some of the following tools/technologies:
• Data Analytics & Reporting: ELK Stack, Cloudwatch, Prometheus
• Configuration Management: Ansible, Terraform, Chef, CloudFormation, or similar tools
• Other Tools: GitLab, GitHub

Nice to Have

• Experience with one or more industry-standard unit/functional test frameworks (JUnit, TestNg, Cucumber, etc.)
• Experience with Atlassian products e.g., Jira, Confluence
• Experience in a SaaS environment that has an agile development process
• Experience working with remote teams
• Experience working in the Health Sciences and Life Sciences industry

Compensation

• Base pay: $90,000 - $165,000
• The salary range listed here has been provided to comply with local regulations and represents a potential base salary range for this role. Please note that actual salaries may vary within the range above or below, depending on experience and location. We look at compensation for each individual and base our offer on your unique qualifications, experience, and expected contributions. This position may also be eligible for other types of compensation in addition to base salary, such as variable bonus and/or stock bonus.

Veeva is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin or ancestry, age, disability, marital status, pregnancy, protected veteran status, protected genetic information, political affiliation, or any other characteristics protected by local laws, regulations, or ordinances. If you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need when applying for a role or in our recruitment process, please contact us at [e-mail].