Quality Engineer - Palo Alto, United States - Palantir Technologies

Description

A World-Changing Company
At Palantir, we're passionate about building software that solves problems. We partner with the most important institutions in the world to transform how they use data and technology.

Our software has been used to stop terrorist attacks, discover new medicines, gain an edge in global financial markets, and more.

If these types of projects excite you, we'd love for you to join us.
The Role
Palantir Quality Engineers work on cross-functional development teams to ensure a successful, high-quality product release. We are looking for highly motivated and detail-oriented engineers to fill this role.

As a Quality Engineer, you will be responsible for creating end-to-end test plans based both on expected uses and functional requirements; validating functionality; finding, filing, verifying, and debugging issues; and providing extensive input on the software development process, with a particular focus on the user perspective.

Quality Engineers work with Product Designers, Software Engineers, and Forward Deployed Engineers at each stage of development and deployment to ensure a consistent, intuitive, and functional user experience.

Core Responsibilities

Embed with a 3-10 person development team working on a specific product component and maintain a high standard for quality throughout the development cycle.

Work with front-line deployed engineers and users at customer sites to thoroughly understand customer workflows.
Connect customer requirements with technical realities by working with both the product and business side of the company.
Design testing to assess the functionality, usability, and performance of Palantir's platforms.
Ensure customer workflow requirements are met while maximizing usability.

Create test plans to push the main workflow and edge functionality of the product as far as it can go.

Responsible for the end-to-end quality of a product component.
What We Value

BS in Engineering/CS, Information Systems, Math, hard sciences, or equivalent experience.
Experience testing software, writing workflows, and/or automation for front-end software applications.
Excellent analytical thinking skills and attention to detail.
Ability to work in a dynamic environment with a rapid turnaround in meeting objectives.
Firm grasp of front end testing methodologies, along with strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills.
Willingness and interest to travel and work closely with our users in secure facilities.

Palantir is committed to promoting a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion and is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer.

We believe that all Palantirians share the responsibility of upholding our commitment to these values and encourage candidates from a wide range of backgrounds, perspectives, and lived experiences to join us in solving the world's hardest problems.

Palantir does not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

Palantir is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with physical and mental disabilities. Please see the United States Department of Labor's

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and

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for additional information.
Palantir is committed to making the job application process accessible to everyone. If you are living with a disability (visible or not visible) and need to request a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process, please

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and let us know how we can help.
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