System Quality Assurance Specialist

We are seeking a highly skilled System Quality Assurance Specialist to join our team. As a key member of our Quality Engineering group, you will play a crucial role in defining and refining an evolving suite of tests to ensure the highest quality of our Enterprise Readiness solutions.

You will work closely with Developers, Solution Architects, and Product Managers to define and develop optimal test coverage for our use cases, focusing on Customer Use case driven System Testing for FlashBlade, a unified fast file and object platform used for modern data.

Your responsibilities will include collaborating with stakeholders to validate test environments, owning and driving testing to completion, reviewing product requirements, design documents, and customer use cases to build test plans and test cases, and developing automation to execute System Testing for new and existing features over multiple releases.

You will also work with Dev/PM, Support, and Escalation teams to help reproduce and root cause customer issues, identifying, analyzing, and documenting any defects discovered during testing.

In this role, you will be a voice for FlashBlade Systems Quality, with Customer First at the heart of your conversation.

• 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).
• 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.

As a System Quality Assurance Specialist, you will have the opportunity to work with a talented team of engineers and developers to deliver high-quality products that meet the needs of our customers.

You will have the chance to grow and develop your skills in a dynamic and challenging environment, with opportunities for professional growth and advancement.

Our company offers a competitive salary and benefits package, including health insurance, retirement savings plan, and paid time off.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from diverse candidates.

If you are a motivated and experienced professional looking for a new challenge, please submit your resume and cover letter for consideration.