Member of Technical Staff - Automation
Hungry, Humble, Honest, with Heart.
The Opportunity
Nutanix is a global guide 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, 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.
About the Team
At Nutanix, you will have the opportunity to join the dynamic Product Testing team. Our team is spread out geographically, allowing for a diverse and collaborative work environment. Despite the physical distance, our team stays connected and fosters a culture of growth, shared knowledge, and continuous learning.
You will report to a Senior Manager who is dedicated to providing mentorship and guidance. At Nutanix, we offer a flexible work setup with a hybrid model, requiring employees to be in the office 2–3 days a week. This balance allows for face-to-face collaboration while also providing the flexibility to work remotely.
There are no travel requirements for this role, ensuring that you can focus on your responsibilities without the added burden of frequent travel. At Nutanix, we prioritize creating a work environment that values work-life balance and supports your professional growth and development.
Your Role
- Executing large-scale customer deployment scenario tests (ex: Oracle RAC, VDI, Exchange Server, etc.)
- 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
3+ years of software engineering experience
- 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)
- Experience 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
- Strong fundamentals of enterprise networking and virtualization concepts - hypervisor/storage/network virtualization
- Ability to debug and extend automated tests
- Prior system testing experience of large scale deployments will be a big plus.
- Skills in debugging complex distributed applications
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Nutanix is an equal opportunity employer.
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