Principal Quality Engineer

Oracle; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 91,100 - 187,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) Savings and Investment Plan

Flexible Vacation

Paid parental leave

Job summary

Oracle in Santa Clara, CA is looking for a qualified individual to design scalable test strategies for complex systems. Responsibilities include overseeing test environment setups and leading defect tracking while ensuring adherence to quality standards.

The ideal candidate will possess strong analytical skills and experience with CI/CD tools. In addition to competitive compensation, this role offers comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, and flexible vacation.

Qualifications

• Experience in designing scalable test strategies for complex systems.
• Ability to oversee test environment setups and maintain documentation.
• Strong analytical skills for root cause analysis and defect tracking.

Responsibilities

• Design scalable test strategies for complex systems.
• Oversee test environment setup across teams and ensure quality.
• Lead defect tracking and manage root cause analysis for customer issues.

Skills

Test Design and Strategy

Risk Assessment

Automation Solutions

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

CI/CD tools

Performance Testing tools

Job description

Job Description

Designs scalable test strategies for complex systems, defining coverage to address integration complexity and technical risks. Oversees test environment setup across teams, adapts validation plans, and enforces quality gates for release readiness. Leads root cause analysis for customer issues, manages defect resolution, and drives team-level quality improvements. Maintains and optimizes test infrastructure, advises on build vs. buy decisions, and develops reusable automation solutions integrated into Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines.

Responsibilities

Test Design and Strategy

• Design scalable strategies for complex systems that align with quality goals of the function and product vision.
• Recommend approaches based on risk to inform architecture and tooling initiatives.
• Define coverage across systems to account for technical unknowns, scalability, and integration complexity.

Test Execution

• Oversee team test environment setup and maintenance across multiple teams, ensuring scalability.
• Adapt validation plans for complex systems through risk modeling to address service ownership alignment.
• Create documentation for failures across components, implementing corrections where needed.
• Prioritize risk‑based regression to balance speed, risk, and automation coverage across products or services.

Defect Tracking and Management

• Takes ownership of reproducing customer issues, performing root cause analysis, and verifying fixes.
• Manages defects across features.
• Leads regular reporting on test progress/defects, ensures root causes are addressed through fixes and engineering accountability.
• Independently conducts post‑incident (post‑mortem) reviews to identify root causes and recommend preventative actions.
• Independently drafts findings and action plans for leadership review.

Collaboration and Communication

• Supports cross‑functional quality initiatives by contributing to technical roadmap alignment, surfacing quality risks, and collaborating with partner teams to drive test alignment.
• Works with product management and developers to align on areas for testing.
• Influences design and prioritizes testing and tooling.
• Maintains and optimizes test infrastructure, driving efficiency and scalability to improve automation and test processes.

Continuous Improvement

• Analyzes and updates processes that improve consistency and reduce friction in engineering workflows within a limited, clearly scoped area.

Automation

• Drives team‑level quality improvements by identifying process gaps and contributing to local transformation efforts.
• Develops scalable automation solutions that support test coverage and reuse within a product or team.
• Promotes automation best practices by resolving complex issues and guiding peers on test maintainability.
• Integrates automation into Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines by contributing to workflow enhancements and reliability improvements.

Risk Assessment

• Leads quality risk assessments during product development, ensuring proactive risk mitigation and testing strategies.
• Identifies systematic impacts of test coverage on moderately complex features areas.
• Implements and enforces software quality gates at key development stages by evaluating test coverage, static analysis results, and defect metrics to ensure release readiness.
• Leads the review and refinement of test plans across product areas, identifying high‑risk impact areas and working with Scrum teams to prioritize mitigation and validate coverage.

Test Tooling

• Maintains and optimizes test infrastructure to drive improvements.
• Provides input into "build versus buy" decisions to increase efficiency and scalability.

Performance Testing

• Leads testing of complex non‑functional requirements across services, focusing on multi‑user performance, dynamic scalability, and stress conditions.
• Coordinates with performance teams to integrate advanced tooling, profiling, and remediation strategies.
• Integrates user experience metrics into performance benchmarks to drive product‑level responsiveness standards.

Core Responsibilities

Planning & Execution

• Manages and coordinates moderately complex tasks, monitoring timelines and deliverables to ensure timely completion and adherence to requirements for a moderately‑sized project or initiative. Efficiently delegates, monitors, and prioritizes work across multiple projects, providing technical oversight and adjusting plans to address shifts in resources or timelines.

Collaboration & Partnership

• Collaborates across the organization to align on expectations and achieve shared objectives.
• Leverages understanding of business leaders, stakeholders, and/or customers to ensure proposed solutions meet their needs.
• Supports inclusivity by actively seeking and listening to diverse perspectives, ensuring others feel heard and respected.

Problem Solving

• Identifies and addresses moderately complex issues by analyzing a wide range of data and/or information to identify solutions in accordance with standard practices.
• Proactively escalates unresolved or critical issues with a thorough assessment and suggests potential solutions.
• Reviews, contributes to, and documents problem‑solving strategies.

Continuous Learning

• Pursues learning opportunities to expand knowledge and skills and/or tools in new areas and stays abreast of the latest industry trends and best practices.
• Proactively seeks and leverages ongoing feedback and training to improve skills.
• Coaches and mentors junior team members, fostering continuous learning and knowledge sharing within and across teams.

Continuous Improvement

• Develops ideas, recommends updates, and/or collaborates on the implementation of process improvements to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of processes, protocols, and workflows across teams, and evaluates the impact on key stakeholders.
• Solicits feedback from others on ideas for alternative approaches and methods for continued improvement.

Performance and Development

• Contributes to the talent development pipeline by participating in candidate interviews, assessing candidates, and providing hiring recommendations.

Qualifications

Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client‑facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.

Salary & Benefits

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $91,100 - $187,000 per year. May be eligible for bonus and equity.

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
• Short term disability and long term disability
• Life insurance and AD&D
• Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
• Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Pre‑tax commuter and parking benefits
• 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
• Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non‑overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
• 11 paid holidays
• Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
• Paid parental leave
• Adoption assistance
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Financial planning and group legal
• Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance

Career Level

IC4

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