About the Role
We're seeking a Principal Test & Quality Architect to help improve product quality by improving our testing processes and ensuring that our tests cover key customer use cases. This role will serve as the bridge between customer support, sustaining engineering, and quality engineering to understand how Oracle Database is deployed and used in production. Using these insights, you'll shape testing priorities and improve coverage of real-world workloads
The ideal candidate brings deep Oracle RDBMS expertise, understands enterprise database architectures, and can translate real customer deployment patterns into high-value quality initiatives that improve reliability, scalability, availability, and performance.
What You'll Do
Become the subject matter expert on how customers deploy, operate, and scale Oracle Database across enterprise environments.
Establish customer engagement mechanisms—including customer advisory forums, internal working groups, and data-driven feedback channels—to continuously capture deployment patterns, operational pain points, and emerging workloads.
Analyze customer telemetry, support trends, benchmark workloads, and field feedback to identify testing gaps and opportunities.
Translate customer usage patterns into improved functional, stress, performance, and reliability testing.
Drive Oracle Database-specific testing strategies that better represent customer deployments across on-premises, OCI, and hybrid environments.
Identify opportunities to simplify and improve testing tools and processes while minimizing disruption to engineering teams.
Internal Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
Customer Insight and Quality Strategy
Build ongoing mechanisms to understand customer deployments, workloads, upgrade strategies, operational practices, and pain points at an architectural level.
Develop relationships across Sustaining engineering and strategic customers.
Convert customer insights into actionable improvements in testing strategy and product quality.
Oracle Database Testing Strategy
Define testing priorities based on real Oracle Database customer workloads.
Improve functional, stress, performance, HA, upgrade, and scalability testing using production-inspired scenarios.
Ensure testing reflects Oracle-specific architectures including RAC, Data Guard, Multitenant, Exadata, OCI, Autonomous Database integrations, and hybrid deployments where applicable.
Quality Engineering Enablement
Required Qualifications
10–15 years of experience in software quality engineering, database engineering, software architecture, or related technical leadership roles.
Deep expertise with Oracle Database technologies and enterprise database deployments.
Strong understanding of Oracle Database customer environments, operational practices, and enterprise workloads.
Experience designing or leading functional, performance, scalability, stress, and reliability testing for enterprise software.
Ability to translate customer requirements into testing priorities.
Experience working across Development, QA, Sustaining Engineering, and customer-facing organizations.
Excellent communication and executive presentation skills.
Strong analytical skills with the ability to identify trends from customer data, telemetry, and support feedback.
Nice to Have
Experience with Oracle Database internals and enterprise features such as RAC, Data Guard, Multitenant, ASM, Exadata, GoldenGate, and OCI Database Services.
Experience analyzing customer telemetry, support data, benchmark workloads, or production performance trends.
External Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
Customer Insight and Quality Strategy
Build ongoing mechanisms to understand customer deployments, workloads, upgrade strategies, operational practices, and pain points at an architectural level.
Develop relationships across Sustaining engineering and strategic customers.
Convert customer insights into actionable improvements in testing strategy and product quality.
Oracle Database Testing Strategy
Define testing priorities based on real Oracle Database customer workloads.
Improve functional, stress, performance, HA, upgrade, and scalability testing using production-inspired scenarios.
Ensure testing reflects Oracle-specific architectures including RAC, Data Guard, Multitenant, Exadata, OCI, Autonomous Database integrations, and hybrid deployments where applicable.
Quality Engineering Enablement
Required Qualifications
10–15 years of experience in software quality engineering, database engineering, software architecture, or related technical leadership roles.
Deep expertise with Oracle Database technologies and enterprise database deployments.
Strong understanding of Oracle Database customer environments, operational practices, and enterprise workloads.
Experience designing or leading functional, performance, scalability, stress, and reliability testing for enterprise software.
Ability to translate customer requirements into testing priorities.
Experience working across Development, QA, Sustaining Engineering, and customer-facing organizations.
Excellent communication and executive presentation skills.
Strong analytical skills with the ability to identify trends from customer data, telemetry, and support feedback.
Nice to Have
Experience with Oracle Database internals and enterprise features such as RAC, Data Guard, Multitenant, ASM, Exadata, GoldenGate, and OCI Database Services.
Experience analyzing customer telemetry, support data, benchmark workloads, or production performance trends.
