Mts - System Test / Sdet

**Hungry, Humble, Honest, with Heart.**:
**The Opportunity**:
Nutanix is a global leader in cloud software and a pioneer in hyperconverged infrastructure solutions, making computing invisible anywhere. Companies around the world use Nutanix software to leverage a single platform to manage any app, at any location, at any scale for their private, hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

Our System Test team is tasked with test planning, test scenario design, test case development and test automation suite development, to assess and improve the overall quality of our products. The role encompasses influencing product design by leveraging the wide knowledge of the product portfolio, continuous improvement using keen eye for system performance, scalability aspects and ensuring that a quality-first mindset is instituted within our development practices. Also, automation of complex tests that mimic customer environments and workloads to ensure performance and scalability baselines.

**About the Team**:
Our System Test team is tasked with test planning, test scenario design, and test case development to assess and improve the overall quality of our products. The role encompasses influencing product design by leveraging the wide knowledge of the product portfolio and ensuring that a quality-first mindset is instituted within our development practices. Also, automation of complex tests that mimic customer environments and workloads to ensure performance and scalability baselines.

**Your Role**:

- Executing large-scale customer deployment scenario tests (ex: Oracle RAC, VDI, Exchange Server, etc.)
- Enhance the existing automation framework to make it suitable for hybrid cloud environment
- Continue to enhance the existing Eng. productivity tools as the company product portfolio evolves
- Implement new tools/framework as needed
- Ability to learn new product and provide quick automation support
- Ability to work with multiple teams in parallel and provide support
- Developing and Executing manual and automated tests to find bugs, and ensuring that automated tests are run regularly to catch regressions
- Working closely with development engineers to analyze and find the root cause of failures.
- Filing bugs and tracking them to closure.

**What You Will Bring**:

- 5+ years of software engineering experience
- Able to work independently and guide/train junior team members
- Experience with distributed software systems
- Experience in test plan design and test case development for complex software projects.
- Experience testing a “systems” product (file systems, storage systems, databases, operating systems, hypervisors, or networking)
- Deep expertise in Software Development or Test Automation in one of the following programming languages: Python/Perl/C/C++/Java (Python preferred)
- Strong fundamentals in Object-Oriented Programming, Algorithms, Data Structures, and Problem Solving
- Team player who is excited to share ideas and problems, and quickly processes feedback.
- Strong fundamentals of enterprise virtualization concepts - hypervisor/storage/network virtualization
- Prior system testing experience of large scale deployments

**How we work**:
This role operates in a hybrid capacity, blending the benefits of remote work with the advantages of in-person collaboration. For most roles, that will mean coming into an office a minimum of 2 - 3 days per week, however certain roles and/or teams may require more frequent in-office presence. Additional team-specific guidance and norms will be provided by your manager.