By Ocient Staff
Quality Assurance teams are a necessary component for software solution companies as they continue to grow and develop their product over time. They detect and fix bugs before product releases, reduce maintenance costs, and ensure a high-quality solution, which leads to better customer satisfaction, brand reputation, and sustained business growth. In this employee spotlight, we highlight Senior QA Software Engineer, Mike Niedbala. Mike is responsible for automating our testing, creating monitoring solutions, and aiding in the success of our customers.
Let’s learn more about Mike’s background and see how he fits into his role here at Ocient.
Where are you based and how do you take advantage of our remote first policy?
I’m based in the Jefferson Park neighborhood of Chicago.
How long have you been with Ocient?
I have been at Ocient for 3 years and 9 months.
What are some things you like to do in your free time?
I love doing wood working as a hobby. I have made several projects over the years and have been doing it since I was 16.
What is one of your proudest career moments while working at Ocient?
I really enjoy working on our monitoring and scale testing of our hyperscale data warehouse, automating our testing, and creating ways to improve our product. It can be challenging at times, but at Ocient, you have great resources and teammates that will be there to support you.
What do you find unique about your job?
The group of people I get to work with are incredible. I am part of the development team that allows me to work to improve the technology and do things never tried before.
What advice would you give to someone entering the tech industry?
Be childlike in using your imagination. Understand the technologies you are interested in and go for it. You should embrace challenges, strive to succeed, be adaptable, agile, and open minded.
Would you like to give an employee shoutout?
I would love to give a shoutout to the entire team at Ocient. I am very lucky and grateful to be part of an incredible organization. I always enjoy the time we get to spend together at our company outings.
I am also very grateful to Ethan Wozniak and Dave Boutcher for their mentoring and brainstorming on ways to improve the monitoring of our system. I’d like to give a couple other shoutouts to Dashang Vaidya and Deanson Lin for all their customer insights. Their knowledge sharing has improved our testing coverage and strategies.
Interested in learning more?
Ocient is a remote-first company full of efficiently effective & craft driven contributors. We are passionate about delivering the very best in large scale data analytics solutions to our customers. Meet other members of our team on our meet the team page or explore our job listings.