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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.

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

We're looking for a fearless and creative system test engineer and automation architect 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 challenge 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 ability to look at the bigger picture and take any complex task to completion.

What You Will Bring

 

Responsibilities

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.

 

Qualifications

5+ years of software engineering experience

Knowledge of OOPs concepts and application in writing the test frameworks.

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 (object storage, 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

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 

Skills in debugging complex distributed applications

Work Arrangement

Hybrid: 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.

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