OVA.Work is hiring: Datadog Tester / Observability QA Engineer in Alpharetta

Datadog Tester / Observability QA Engineer

Job Title: Datadog Tester / Observability QA Engineer

Job Summary

We are looking for a Datadog Tester responsible for validating monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting implementations using Datadog. The role ensures accurate observability, correct alerting, and reliable dashboards across applications, APIs, and infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities

• Validate application, API, and infrastructure metrics collected in Datadog, ensuring correct host, container, and service-level metrics and verifying metric thresholds, anomalies, and aggregation accuracy.
• Validate log ingestion from applications, APIs, servers, and cloud services, ensuring log parsing, indexing, tagging, and retention policies, and verifying log search, filters, and correlation with metrics.
• Test distributed tracing for APIs and microservices, validate service maps, latency, error rates, and throughput, and ensure trace-to-log and trace-to-metric correlation.
• Test alerts, monitors, and notifications (Email, Slack, PagerDuty, etc.), validate alert conditions, severity levels, escalation rules, and perform negative testing to avoid false positives/negatives.
• Validate Datadog dashboards for accuracy and usability, ensuring correct widgets, queries, and time‑series data, and 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, and assist in production issue root cause analysis (RCA).

Seniority level

Entry level

Employment type

Full‑time

Job function

Information Technology

Industries

Software Development

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