Senior QA Engineer - Observability

Graphcore; Województwo pomorskie; On-site; PLN 260,400 - 352,200; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Medical & Dental

Gym card

Pension match

Job summary

Graphcore in Gdańsk is seeking a Senior QA Engineer to validate its end-to-end telemetry and observability platform. You will design, develop and automate tests for telemetry generation, data collection, processing and dashboards.

You will work with Telemetry and Observability engineers across a full SDLC, ensuring reliability, scalability, and production readiness for internal teams and customers.

The role offers hybrid work, competitive salary, benefits and equity as part of Graphcore's package.

Qualifications

• BSc or MSc in CS, CS or equivalent practical experience.
• 5–8 years in Software QA, Test Automation or Software Eng.
• Experience designing automated test frameworks for distributed systems.
• Experience testing cloud-native or Linux-based software.
• Experience with Python programming.
• Experience building automated integration and system tests.
• Familiarity with CI/CD and testing pipelines.
• Experience with Kubernetes, Docker and containers.
• Understanding of distributed systems, networking and API testing.
• Experience validating REST and gRPC APIs.
• Strong debugging and root-cause analysis.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.
• Experience testing observability platforms (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ClickHouse, Kafka, Elastic).
• Familiarity with IaC (Terraform, Ansible).
• Experience testing AI infrastructure, HPC or cloud infra.
• One additional language such as Go or C++.
• Knowledge of observability practices including metrics, logs and tracing.

Responsibilities

• Define end-to-end quality strategy for Graphcore's telemetry and observability platform.
• Design, develop and maintain automated tests for telemetry lifecycle - from generation to dashboards, APIs and alerting.
• Develop automated validation frameworks for telemetry pipelines, data quality, metrics, logs, traces and time-series data.
• Design realistic test environments for large-scale distributed deployments and production-like workloads.
• Collaborate with engineers to ensure testability, reliability and quality in every component.
• Validate performance, scalability, resilience and fault recovery under realistic conditions.
• Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines and improve coverage and release quality.
• Investigate defects through root-cause analysis with engineering teams.
• Develop quality metrics, test reports and release readiness criteria.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of testing methodologies and automation.

Skills

Python programming

CI/CD

Distributed systems testing

REST and gRPC API testing

Debugging

Software QA

Go or C++

Education

BSc or MSc in CS or equivalent

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

Ansible

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

ClickHouse

Kafka

Elastic Stack

Job description

Salary Range: PLN 260,400 - 352,200 + Benefits + Equity

Subject to alignment to the responsibilities and duties of the role.

Location: Gdańsk - Hybrid Working Policy - 2-3 Days per week in office

About Graphcore

At Graphcore, we’re building the future of AI compute.We’re a team of semiconductor, software and AI experts, with deep experience in creating the complete AI compute stack - from silicon and software to infrastructure at datacenter scale.As part of the SoftBank Group, backed by significant long-term investment, we are delivering key technology into the fast-growing SoftBank AI ecosystem.To meet the vast and exciting AI opportunity, Graphcore is expanding its teams around the world.We are bringing together the brightest minds to solve the toughest problems, in a place where everyone has the opportunity to make an impact on the company, our products and the future of artificial intelligence.

Job Summary

As a Senior QA Engineer within the Management & Observability team, you will be responsible for validating Graphcore's end-to-end telemetry and observability platform.

Working closely with Telemetry and Observability engineers, you will design, develop and automate comprehensive test strategies covering telemetry generation, data collection, processing, storage, visualization and alerting. Your work will ensure that Graphcore's observability solutions are reliable, scalable and production-ready for both internal engineering teams and customers.

You will contribute throughout the software development lifecycle by defining quality standards, building automated test frameworks and validating distributed systems operating at scale.

Responsibilities and Duties

• Define and implement the end-to-end quality strategy for Graphcore's telemetry and observability platform.
• Design, develop and maintain automated functional, integration, system and regression tests covering the complete telemetry lifecycle - from telemetry generation to dashboards, APIs and alerting.
• Develop automated validation frameworks for telemetry pipelines, data quality, metrics, logs, traces and time-series data.
• Design realistic test environments capable of validating large-scale distributed deployments and production-like workloads.
• Work closely with software engineers throughout design and implementation to ensure testability, reliability and quality are built into every component.
• Validate performance, scalability, resilience and fault recovery of telemetry and observability solutions under realistic operating conditions.
• Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines and continuously improve test coverage, execution time and release quality.
• Investigate defects through root-cause analysis, working with engineering teams to resolve complex system-level issues.
• Develop quality metrics, test reports and release readiness criteria to support engineering and product decisions.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of testing methodologies, automation frameworks and engineering best practices.

Skills and Experience

• BSc or MSc degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent practical experience.
• 5–8 years of experience in Software QA, Test Automation or Software Engineering.
• Experience designing automated test frameworks for distributed systems.
• Experience testing cloud-native or infrastructure software running on Linux.
• Experience with Python programming.
• Experience building automated integration and system tests.
• Familiarity with CI/CD platforms and automated testing pipelines.
• Experience with Kubernetes, Docker and containerized environments.
• Understanding of distributed systems, networking and API testing.
• Experience validating REST and gRPC APIs.
• Strong debugging and root-cause analysis skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience testing observability platforms based on Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ClickHouse, Kafka or Elastic Stack.
• Experience validating telemetry pipelines and large-scale time-series data.
• Experience with performance, scalability and resiliency testing.
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code technologies such as Terraform or Ansible.
• Experience testing AI infrastructure, HPC platforms or cloud infrastructure.
• Experience with one additional programming language such as Go or C++.
• Knowledge of modern observability practices including metrics, logs and distributed tracing.

In addition to a competitive salary, annual leave policy, medical and dental health plans, a gym card and employee pension (matched up to 4%). We review our benefits on a yearly basis to ensure we offer a valuable and rewarding benefits programme to our employees. We welcome people of different backgrounds and experiences; we’re committed to building an inclusive work environment that makes Graphcore a great home for everyone. We offer an equal opportunity process and understand that there are visible and invisible differences in all of us. We can provide a flexible approach to interview and encourage you to chat to us if you require any reasonable adjustments.

Sponsorship

Applicants for this position must hold the right to work in the Poland. Unfortunately at this time, we are unable to provide visa sponsorship or support for visa applications.