Principal Test & Quality Platform Architect

Location: Redwood City, CA, United States

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.

About Us

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Serve as the Principal Test & Quality Architect for Oracle Database, driving customer-informed quality strategy across functional, stress, and performance testing. Partner with test engineering, product management, support, and customers to understand real-world deployment patterns, workloads, and operational challenges, translating those insights into improved testing strategies.