Senior Data Quality Engineer
San Francisco, CA

Job Description

Job Title: Senior Quality Engineer

Reporting To: Director of Engineering

Department: Engineering

Location: San Francisco, CA

Your Mission

We are seeking a Principal Data Warehouse Engineer in our Ads Engineering team, empowering cutting edge mobile advertising technologies to create the next generation of our Ads Platform.

If you want to create amazing user experiences using the latest technologies, then this is the right job for you. You're an excellent communicator, happy to work with people from several different business units. You can translate business needs into technical requirements and implementation. We are problem solvers, constantly reviewing how and why we do things and learning from each other. We are experimental, trying out new tech and ideas and willing to take risks to drive the entire industry forward. We are sociable and fun, and we like to hang out together. We are passionate, some might even say quirky, and while we love what we do, our lives are about more than work. We love games and are obsessed with creating the best player experience.

Responsibilities

* Build automated test framework and tools to automate the Data Platform services and applications.


* Work with the product managers and the team leads to understand the requirements and come up with the relevant test cases and execute them.


* Automate regression test and perform functional, integration and load testing.


* Perform data validity, accuracy and integrity test across different components of the Data Platform.


* Proactively solve problems and suggest process improvements.


* Triage production level issues by analyzing the production logs and work with the development team until the issues are resolved.


* Use SQL queries and analyze log files to test various ETL and data pipelines.


* Provide test case coverage and defect metrics to substantiate release decisions.


* Articulate issues to developers during meetings and particularly in the daily standups.


* Provide technical directions and mentor other engineers.



Player Profile

* Working experience in testing data pipeline.


* 4+ years of experience in software quality engineering.


* Good understanding of big data technologies


* Strong programming knowledge and hands-on experience with Java.


* Hands on experience in CICD tools like Jenkins.


* Experience in working with relational databases such as MySQL,


* Postgres, etc.


* Experience in NoSQL databases like Bigtable, Cassandra, HBase etc.


* Proficient with service automation and automation framework development.


* Ability to work in a fast-paced, iterative development


* environment with short turn-around times.


* Ability to think logically, diagnose/triage.


* Strong communication skills with the ability to understand and


* explain complex technical issues to a non-technical audience.


* BS in Computer Science or Equivalent.



Bonus Points

* Experience in Mobile advertising testing.


* Experience working with AWS or Google Cloud Platform (GCP)


* Understanding of data warehouse concepts.


* Strong experience in stress testing scalable high-volume applications that handle millions of requests.



Our World

Activision Blizzard, Inc. is the world's largest interactive entertainment company, with operations across North America, Europe, and Asia. We are home to some of the most beloved entertainment franchises including Call of Duty®, Skylanders®, World of Warcraft®, Overwatch®, Diablo®, Candy Crush™, and Bubble Witch™. Our combined entertainment network delights hundreds of millions of monthly active users in 196 countries, making us the largest gaming network on the planet!

We're proud to be recognized as one of FORTUNE's "100 Best Companies To Work For®" for four consecutive years and have earned a spot on FORTUNE's "Most Admired Companies," and "Future 50" lists. Our 10,000+ global employees are some of the best and brightest talents across entertainment, media, and technology.

The video game industry and therefore our business is fast-paced and will continue to evolve. As such, the duties and responsibilities of this role may be changed as directed by the Company at any time to promote and support our business and relationships with industry partners.