OVA.Work · 1 month ago
Datadog Tester / Observability QA Engineer
Alpharetta, GA
Full-time
Onsite
New Grad, Entry LevelOVA.Work is a company focused on observability solutions, and they are seeking a Datadog Tester to ensure accurate monitoring and logging implementations. The role involves validating metrics, logs, alerts, and dashboards across various applications and infrastructures.
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Responsibilities
Validate application, API, and infrastructure metrics collected in Datadog
Ensure correct host, container, and service-level metrics
Verify metric thresholds, anomalies, and aggregation accuracy
Validate log ingestion from applications, APIs, servers, and cloud services
Ensure log parsing, indexing, tagging, and retention policies
Verify log search, filters, and correlation with metrics
Test distributed tracing for APIs and microservices
Validate service maps, latency, error rates, and throughput
Ensure trace-to-log and trace-to-metric correlation
Test alerts, monitors, and notifications (Email, Slack, PagerDuty, etc.)
Validate alert conditions, severity levels, and escalation rules
Perform negative testing to avoid false positives/negatives
Validate Datadog dashboards for accuracy and usability
Ensure correct widgets, queries, and time-series data
Verify role-based access and dashboard sharing
Test Datadog integrations with cloud providers (AWS/Azure/GCP), Kubernetes, Docker, databases, and CI/CD tools
Validate environment separation (Dev, QA, Stage, Prod)
Work with Dev, DevOps, SRE, and Product teams
Report observability gaps and monitoring defects
Assist in production issue root cause analysis (RCA)
Qualification
Required
Experience with Datadog for monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting implementations
Ability to validate application, API, and infrastructure metrics collected in Datadog
Experience in validating log ingestion from applications, APIs, servers, and cloud services
Knowledge of testing distributed tracing for APIs and microservices
Experience in testing alerts, monitors, and notifications (Email, Slack, PagerDuty, etc.)
Ability to validate Datadog dashboards for accuracy and usability
Experience in testing Datadog integrations with cloud providers (AWS/Azure/GCP), Kubernetes, Docker, databases, and CI/CD tools
Ability to collaborate with Dev, DevOps, SRE, and Product teams
Experience in reporting observability gaps and monitoring defects
Ability to assist in production issue root cause analysis (RCA)
Company
OVA.Work
OVA is the most advanced Automated, Intelligent, intuitive On-boarding platform for Staffing Firms of all sizes.
Founded in 2018
51-200 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
unknown2020-03-15Pre Seed
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