Senior QA Engineer (m/f/d)
(Important Note: We are ONLY looking for candidates who at least have solid knowledge and understanding of Data Science and Machine Learning)
Hello ๐ I am Servesh, Co-Founder and CTO of Kayzen, and I am now looking for a QA Engineer who will be reporting directly to me, fully dedicating his/her time and effort to assisting our Data Science and Machine Learning Team ๐
But wait, you have not heard of Kayzen before? ๐
In short, Kayzen is a B2B SaaS platform that allows companies to reach users with video and rich media ads while they use mobile apps.
We are a 65-people international team, working flexibly across 8 different countries:
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Why is this role in particular exciting?
If you are looking for a QA role which can get you closer to the day-to-day actions of a strong DS and ML team, this is the one for you ๐ฅ
How would I describe the engineering challenges in Kayzen?
We have to deal with >100bn ad requests from 1bn+ unique users worldwide on a daily basis.
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- Handling ~2 Million Req/sec in sub-millisecond latency
- Handing and managing ~Petabytes of data
- Managing distributed systems deployed across multiple data centres
- Optimizing JVM and Linux kernel for optimal performance
- ๐(If you would like to know more about our engineering, read this, and this as well ๐)๐
How would I describe the culture of Kayzen Engineering?
- Collaboration ๐ค- Every workday we would have a stand-up for us to ask each other questions. โYou will also have a buddy at the beginning of your tenure, making sure you will be truly embedded into the team.
- Ownership ๐ - โMicro-management is NEVER our styleโ
- Positivity ๐ - We will eventually find our way around the hard technical challenge. Stay relaxed, and work smart โโ ๐
- Curiosity ๐ญ- We think ahead. We ask โWhyโ. We challenge our assumptions.
- P.S. If you are around our Bangalore office, we would have lunch together every workday ๐ฑ
Your day-to-day in Kayzenโฆ..
- Develop, Execute and maintain test automation scripts using Python
- Work with Big data pipelines for data profiling and sanity and develop tools to implement ETL in the big data pipeline
- Perform data verification and automate the validation from DB sources and Hadoop Environment and data workflows
- Drive improvements in the existing automation framework to improve reporting, quality and maintainability
- Debug and troubleshoot issues within the Platform engineering ecosystem
- Provide all stakeholders with appropriate regression reports in a timely manner
Sounds like you? ๐
- Proficiency in Python
- Solid understanding and knowledge of the fundamentals of Data Science and Machine Learning
- Previous experience in big data pipeline automation testing.
- Previous experience in relational SQL, columnar stores like Clickhouse
- Previous experience in Docker containers
- Previous experience in Linux/Unix environment
- Previous experience in Automating Backend Application, RESTful services
All in all - Why Kayzen?
- We genuinely see encouraging ownership of your quality work, accelerating your career development, and keeping+hiring exceptional colleagues as the biggest perks (above everything else)
- ๐ฐWe are already profitable. So you can expect stability from the company financially, and you can enjoy the thrill of working in a start-up environment at the same time.
- Our work is driven by our own team, rather than external parties (e.g. Often start-up/scale-up companies can be heavily influenced by external parties, such as venture investors who are not deeply into the business.)
- Transparency - Day-to-day work experience with the management team and regular business updates to the team
- ๐Our Kayzenians - For instance, we did a global week of workation offsite in 2022. Check out how we were having fun here. Perhaps we will see you in the next offsite as well?๐ด
Other benefits for every Kayzenian globally
- Competitive compensation package
- Parent-friendly company culture
- Remote-friendly company culture
- $500 home-office-equipment budget
- $1000 annual learning and development budget
Our team genuinely believes high-performance outcomes are achieved through hiring top talent and creating a productive and healthy work culture.
๐ค Hopefully the above excites you enough to apply ๐ค
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P.S. Not sure whether you should apply as you think you may not meet all the above criteria?
- No worries, just apply for the role first ๐
- We encourage you to apply even if you meet only some of the points in the job description.
- Then, we could have a chat and see if you could be suitable for the role.