Principal Test & Quality Platform Architect

About the Role

We're seeking a Principal Test & Quality Architect to help evolve how Oracle Database validates quality by bringing the voice of the customer directly into our engineering processes.

This role serves as the bridge between customers, Sustaining Engineering, and Quality Engineering to understand how Oracle Database is deployed and used in production. Using these insights, you'll shape testing priorities, improve coverage of real-world workloads, and guide the evolution of our testing platforms, tools, and practices.

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 improvement opportunities.
• Translate customer usage patterns into enhanced functional, stress, performance, and reliability testing strategies.
• Drive Oracle Database-specific testing approaches that accurately 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.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to improve observability, workload modeling, environment stability, and overall test effectiveness.
• Evaluate emerging technologies, including AI-assisted testing capabilities, where they provide measurable improvements in quality, efficiency, or productivity.

Key Responsibilities

Customer Insight & Quality Strategy

• Build ongoing mechanisms to understand customer deployments, workloads, upgrade strategies, operational practices, and architectural challenges.
• Develop strong partnerships across Sustaining Engineering and with strategic customers.

• Convert customer insights into actionable improvements in testing strategy and overall product quality.

Oracle Database Testing Strategy

• Define testing priorities based on real-world Oracle Database customer workloads.
• Improve functional, stress, performance, high availability, 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

• Improve workload modeling, test data strategies, environment consistency, and observability.
• Define meaningful quality metrics and reporting dashboards.

• Share best practices through playbooks, architecture reviews, and technical mentoring.

Innovation

• Evaluate AI and machine learning capabilities that can improve test generation, failure analysis, workload selection, and defect triage.
• Recommend practical adoption based on demonstrated business value rather than technology-first initiatives.

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 engineering priorities.
• Experience collaborating across Development, Quality Engineering, Sustaining Engineering, and customer-facing organizations.
• Excellent written, verbal, 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 technologies 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.
• Familiarity with modern test automation frameworks and CI/CD practices.
• Experience evaluating AI-assisted software engineering or testing capabilities.

Disclaimer:

Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $169,800 to $355,400 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.


Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business.
Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.

Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:
1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
2. Short term disability and long term disability
3. Life insurance and AD&D
4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
8. Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
9. 11 paid holidays
10. Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
11. Paid parental leave
12. Adoption assistance
13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan
14. Financial planning and group legal
15. Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance

The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.

Career Level - IC6