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Ocient

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Enterprise • SaaS • Telecommunications

Ocient is a company that specializes in hyperscale data warehouse solutions. Their technology is designed to deliver real-time analytics and manage complex data sets efficiently. Ocient provides tailored solutions that can be deployed either in the cloud or on-premises, leveraging industry-standard hardware. They focus on offering high performance, energy-efficient solutions that are cost-effective and optimized for various industries such as AdTech, Telecom, Government, Financial Services, Operational IT, and Geospatial sectors. With a strong emphasis on security and compliance, their platform supports SQL workloads, data pipelines, and machine learning capabilities. Founded in 2016, Ocient strives to tackle large-scale data analytics challenges by providing end-to-end solutions and expert management services.

51 - 200 employees

🏢 Enterprise

☁️ SaaS

📡 Telecommunications

💰 $132k Venture Round on 2022-07

📋 Description

• Design and execute comprehensive test plans and automated suites to validate new features/optimizations for or database as a system • Develop, run, and analyze regression tests targeting the system-level database functionality — ensuring functional stability, scalability, and performance • Collaborate strongly with Development team to implement tests onto nightly CI/QA infrastructure, improve existing test coverage and analysis tooling • Own end-to-end evaluation of Ocient's platform components, partnering across teams to identify behavioral/functional issues, correctness gaps, and opportunities for performance optimization • Provide technical leadership in defining test strategies, frameworks, and best practices for validating complex optimization and execution scenarios • Work cross-functionally with engineering leadership and internal stakeholders to align on feature design goals, ensure test completeness, and drive timely resolution of issues • Lead the evolution of database testing infrastructure to support scalability, reliability, and reproducibility across functional and system-level tests • Act as a subject matter expert for owned components, partnering with customer operations and development teams on escalated issues and validation • Mentor junior engineers, fostering expertise in database testing methodologies.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent • 4–6 years of experience in database development, administration, or QA engineering, ideally focused on testing and validating query processing behavior and database functionality • Deep understanding of relational and distributed database systems, with strong skills in SQL query design, execution, and analysis • Proven experience in test planning, designing, and executing automated, reliable test frameworks and workloads for databases • Strong QA and debugging skills with the ability to trace issues across query planning, execution, and component interactions within the database engine • Solid Linux expertise — comfortable monitoring resource utilization, analyzing logs, and understanding how system-level factors influence database behavior • Proficiency in Python for test automation, diagnostics, and feature validation • Hands-on experience with JIRA, test case management system and version control tools • Familiarity with cloud environments (AWS or GCP), including deployment and monitoring • Ability to analyze complex test results, interpret query execution behavior, and derive meaningful insights through visualization and test data analysis • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to convey technical findings clearly to diverse audiences.