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The Opportunity
Nutanix is a global guide in cloud software and a pioneer in hyper converged 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.
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 broad 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.
We're looking for a smart and creative system test engineer who can enhance the existing automation framework and build a low-maintenance and elegant automated regression test library for a groundbreaking and revolutionary enterprise infrastructure product. We're looking for someone who is up to the demand of enhancing Dev and QA productivity by providing tools and libraries for automating our extensive suite of complex manual tests. The ideal candidate will have a strong arsenal of skills and a proven track record of quickly learning new technologies, excellent design skills, and an ability to look at the bigger picture and take any complex task to completion.
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 products 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 detail and find the root cause of failures.
- Filing bugs and tracking them to closure.
What You Will Bring
- 10+ years of software engineering experience
- Knowledge of OOPs concepts and application in writing the test frameworks.
- Able to work on one's own 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
- A team player is excited about sharing 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
- Skills in debugging complex distributed applications
