System Test Engineer, FlashBlade

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This type of work—work that changes the world—is what the tech industry was founded on. So, if you're ready to seize the endless opportunities and leave your mark, come join us.

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

WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM US:

• Pure Innovation: We celebrate those who think critically, like a challenge and aspire to be trailblazers.
• Pure Growth: We give you the space and support to grow along with us and to contribute to something meaningful. We have been Named Fortune's Best Large Workplaces in the Bay Area™, Fortune's Best Workplaces for Millennials™ and certified as a Great Place to Work®!
• Pure Team: We build each other up and set aside ego for the greater good.

And because we understand the value of bringing your full and best self to work, we offer a variety of perks to manage a healthy balance, including flexible time off, wellness resources and company-sponsored team events. Check out purebenefits.com for more information.

ACCOMMODATIONS AND ACCESSIBILITY:

Candidates with disabilities may request accommodations for all aspects of our hiring process. For more on this, contact us at TA-Ops@purestorage.com if you’re invited to an interview.

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