Immediate Start! System Testing

About the role

The FlashBlade team is expanding the Quality Engineering team in our office in

Bangalore to focus on defining & refining, building and to maintain an evolving suite of

tests to ship FlashBlade for Enterprise Readiness with the highest quality. You will be

working with Developers, Solution Architects and Product Managers to define and

develop and bring optimal test coverage for FlashBlade use cases.

What you will be doing

Customer Use case driven System Testing for FlashBlade (a unified fast file and

object (UFFO) platform used for modern data).

Collaborate with appropriate stakeholders to make sure your test environment

validates the Customer use cases as closely as possible.

Own and drive testing to completion : review product requirements, design docs,

and customer use cases to build test plans, test cases, and develop automation

in order to execute System Testing for new and existing features over multiple

FlashBlade releases

Work withDev / PM, Support and Escalation teams to help reproduce and root

cause customer issues Identifying, analyzing, and documenting any defects

discovered during testing.

Be a voice for FlashBlade Systems Quality with the Customer First being at the

heart of the conversation

What you bring to the team

Hands-on experience in software testing and test automation - preferably within

an enterprise storage product environment (either on-premise or cloud) where

Distributed Systems architecture is a key component.

Experience working closely in flash storage is a big plus.

Good knowledge of file systems, file system protocols, and data replication :

Read / Write (IOPs, Latency, Bandwidth), I / O datapath, NFS, SMB, S3, ACLs,

networking layers (switching, routing, vlans, LACP / lags), and replication specifics

(like lag time, RTO, RPO).

Strong Automation skills, Familiarity with automation tooling like pytest is a plus.

Good understanding of how end customers use / deploy Storage Systems is a

plus

Familiarity with application ecosystems (e.g. Netbackup, Veeam, Commvault,

Vertica, Elastic Search, and Database workloads) and directory services (e.g.

openldap, ad, oud etc)

Experience in any number of related system software projects e.g : Operating

systems, Linux Kernel, Hypervisors, Containers etc

Ability to deploy and use 3rd party IO tools such as; Load Dynamix, IOZone, fio,

SpecFS, HCIBench to simulate IO test workloads as a supplement to real

workloads.

Skilled at reviewing and collaborating on product design docs and test plans and

have competency in authoring detailed test plans.

Have worked within Agile, Test-Driven Development, and Continuous Integration

organizations.

Stellar communication and collaboration skills

Ability to work independently and with cross-functional teams to gather data to

help with future automation project roadmaps.

Experience in development and testing of RESTful web services and backend

APIs

8+ years relevant work experience