QA Lead Engineer

WEKA is architecting a new approach to the enterprise data stack built for the AI era. The WEKA® Data Platform sets the standard for AI infrastructure with a cloud and AI-native software solution that can be deployed anywhere. It transforms legacy data silos into data pipelines that make GPUs, AI, and other performance-intensive workloads run faster, work more efficiently, and consume less energy. WEKA is a pre-IPO, growth-stage company on a hyper-growth trajectory. We’ve raised $375M in capital with dozens of world-class venture capital and strategic investors. We help the world’s most innovative enterprises and research organizations, including 12 Fortune 50, reach discoveries, insights, and outcomes faster and more sustainably. We’re passionate about helping our customers overcome complex data challenges to accelerate their innovation and help grow their businesses. We invite you to join us on this exciting journey if you share our passion.

What you’ll be doing:
Our QA Lead Engineer (Quality Assurance Technical Leader) is part of a team of highly skilled QA professionals with rich experience of test coverage of Storage Units in Archive & Storage industry (Block,NAS, Filesystem Appliances / SW Based Solutions,Protocols and Management Interfaces e.g. UI,RestAPI) that are responsible for Planning Test Strategies , STPs , STDs and Manage overall boundaries of the quality of the product, coverage responsibilities , and Quality status reporting, among testing beds,and topologies,  which reflects field environments and special network/storage/security configurations. A challenging but crucial engineering task to produce a process for quality coverage starting from bug fixes and unit testing required , to orchestration of manual activity into automation cycle and finally end to end and COST part coverage planning. Together with the other QA teams, you will be responsible for getting requirements from several Weka Mid-Large scale customers,and Weka version contents,  refine the needed properties of the QA Coverage needs , and distribute the responsibilities  in a way that will reflect a sustained level of coverage needs , among these to address testing specifically when these are not fallen into automation / end to end domain and audit / track the relevant defects. 

As QA Lead Engineer, you’ll:

• Produce Test Strategy , and assign quality coverage criterias for the focal point in QA - Automation , Dev , Manual , End to end teams , and CI / nightly coverage,or PR level coverage needs 
• Map requirements and address yourself tests which are not fallen in other R&R. - hands-on approach 
• Collaborate with the QA engineering teams in order to identify and analyze setup properties, as well as providing setups requirements ,  for cycles of QA coverage , track the results and audit them. 
• Track defects found from start to resolution and verification, as well as work through the JIRA workflow to provide meaningful test results on individual tickets;
• Act as a QA focal point who understands the terminology ,weak points of the system, involved with protocols, configurations, architecture, and practicalities in the industry of storage technology.

Requirements:

• 5-6 years of proven experience in the QA Manual department working through Storage domains / Networking/ Security/ Filesystem and Orchestration / Management domains -  focused areas in Large capacities, with high demand for business continuity and quick problem solving skills. 
• Ability to work full time, in collaboration with QA teams at System QA and automation departments.
• Keep engagement up with a high-speed development process and ongoing deliveries, executing and adjusting your testing activities accordingly. Fine-tuning coverage if needed periodically and communicate revised plans to teams involved and track the progress per needs.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with outstanding attention to details in QA Process of the system.
• Great interpersonal skills working through Customer Support departments in order to collect Customer Properties , and often Customer sites themselves. 
• Fluent english - a Must
• Basic knowledge of Linux and networking - A Must.
• Networking and Protocols / Management Storage API  in particular knowledge – Must.
• Familiarity with Git - Must.
• Knowledge of QA methodologies - Must.
• Understanding CI / Nightly and Build workflows - an advantage 
• Understanding processes in Release Management and Coverage reports - an advantage