Software Quality Assurance Engineer

About Starburst

Starburst is the data platform for analytics, applications, and AI, unifying data across clouds and on-premises to accelerate AI innovation. Organizations—from startups to Fortune 500 enterprises in 60+ countries—rely on Starburst for fast data access, seamless collaboration, and enterprise-grade governance on an open hybrid data lakehouse. Wherever data lives, Starburst unlocks its full potential, powering data and AI from development to deployment. By future-proofing data architecture, Starburst helps businesses fuel innovation with AI.

About The Role

We are looking for a qualified and dedicated Quality Engineer to make full use of the Dell QA environment.

This person will collaborate with Dell to ensure quality standards are met for the Spark solution and its integration with the Dell Datalake Appliance. The role involves representing quality considerations during design discussions with Starburst Engineering teams.

As a QA Engineer At Starburst, You Will

• Build, deploy and maintain the testing environment (k8s, Helm, testing frameworks - Playwright, Atlas)

• Setup, upgrade, and manage Dell’s Appliance components

• Prepare and document test plans and review with Dell

• Increase our coverage of automation and manual testing, including:

• End-to-end integration testing - ensuring that our code works with all of the other components of the Dell appliance.

• Stress and performance testing - ensuring resiliency, stability, and performance baseline

• Spark specific testing - write python code and prepare data sets for Spark workloads submission including Batch, Structured Streaming, and Interactive data processing(e.g. notebook)

• Ecosystem testing - validate integrations with Airflow, BI Tools, Kerberos, and more.

Some Of The Things We Look For

• 3+ years of experience as a software engineer in test
• Demonstration of ownership, grit, and bias for action - core values at Starburst
• Demonstrated experience with software engineering and design best practices
• Experience developing software in Java is a plus, but it’s not required in this role.
• Experience developing software in Python is a plus, but it’s not required in this role.

Bonus Points

• Familiarity with Trino
• Familiarity with Apache Spark and its ecosystem
• Experience contributing to open-source software

Where could this role be based?

• Poland / EMEA

Build your career at Starburst

All-Stars have the opportunity and freedom to realize their true potential. By building alongside top talent, we’re empowered to take ownership of our careers and drive meaningful change. Anchored in industry-proven technology and unprecedented success, All-Stars are taking on the challenge everyday to disrupt our industry – and the future.

Our global workforce is supported by a competitive Total Rewards program that reflects our commitment to a rewarding and supportive work environment. This includes a variety of benefits like competitive pay, attractive stock grants, flexible paid time off, and more.

We are committed to fostering an intentional, inclusive, and diverse culture that drives deep engagement, authentic belonging, and an exceptional All-Star experience. We believe that diversity of thought, perspective, background and experience will enable us to own what we do, drive our success and empower our All-Stars to show up authentically.

Starburst provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state

or local laws.

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