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Nutanix

Senior Member of Technical Staff- System Test

Nutanix, San Jose, California, United States, 95199


Hungry, Humble, Honest, with Heart.

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

Build robust features and solutions for the Nutanix Flow product - Advanced Networking and Micro-segmentation.

Executing large-scale customer deployment scenario tests (ex: Oracle RAC, VDI, Exchange Server, etc.)

Enhance existing automation framework to make it suitable for hybrid cloud environment

Ability to work with multiple teams in parallel with focus on scale, performance and resiliency testing.

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 testing experience in the Networking/Security domain.

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

The pay range for this position at commencement of employment is expected to be between USD $ 148,000 and USD $ 296,400 per year.

However, base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The total compensation package for this position may also include other elements, including a sign-on bonus, restricted stock units, and discretionary awards in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits (including 401(k) eligibility and various paid time off benefits, such as vacation, sick time, and parental leave), dependent on the position offered. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment.

If hired, employee will be in an “at-will position” and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors. Our application deadline is 40 days from the date of posting. In good faith, the posting may be removed prior to this date if the position is filled or extended in good faith.

We're an Equal Opportunity Employer Nutanix is an Equal Employment Opportunity and (in the U.S.) an Affirmative Action employer. Qualified applicants are considered for employment opportunities without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, disability status or any other category protected by applicable law. We hire and promote individuals solely on the basis of qualifications for the job to be filled. We strive to foster an inclusive working environment that enables all our Nutants to be themselves and to do great work in a safe and welcoming environment, free of unlawful discrimination, intimidation or harassment. As part of this commitment, we will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If you need a reasonable accommodation, please let us know by contacting CandidateAccommodationRequests@nutanix.com.