Job Description

We are looking for a highly motivated Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) to join our Scale-Out Storage Engineering team. The ideal candidate combines strong software development skills with deep testing expertise and has experience validating distributed systems, storage platforms, filesystems, and high-performance data platforms.

This role requires building automation frameworks, developing test infrastructure, and driving quality across the entire software development lifecycle for enterprise-scale distributed storage solutions.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain automated test frameworks using Python and PyTest

• Develop automated functional, integration, regression, performance, scalability, and reliability tests.

• Design and execute fault-injection, failover, recovery, and chaos testing scenarios.

• Develop automation for cluster deployment, upgrades, rolling updates, and disaster recovery workflows.

• Work closely with developers to identify, reproduce, and resolve complex product issues.

• Perform white-box testing by reviewing architecture, design documents, and code changes.

• Build tools to improve test efficiency, coverage, reporting, and product quality metrics.

• Analyze system behavior under node failures, network disruptions, disk failures, and workload stress conditions.

• Participate in CI/CD pipeline development and test automation integration.

• Drive quality initiatives and improve overall engineering productivity through automation.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.

• 8+ years of experience in Software QA, Test Automation, or SDET roles.

• Strong programming skills in Python

• Extensive hands-on experience with PyTest

• Experience building and maintaining large-scale automation frameworks.

• Strong Linux system administration and troubleshooting skills.

• Experience testing distributed systems and enterprise storage products.

• Strong understanding of:

  • Scale-out storage architectures

  • File, Block or Object storage

  • Data replication and erasure coding

• Experience with Git, CI/CD pipelines, and test automation infrastructure.

Technical Skills

Programming & Automation

• Python

• PyTest

• Shell Scripting (Bash)

• Git

Infrastructure & DevOps

• Jenkins, GitHub Actions

• Docker

• Monitoring and Observability Tools

Success Criteria

The successful candidate will:

• Own quality initiatives for major storage features.

• Build scalable automation frameworks that reduce manual testing effort.

• Improve regression coverage and release confidence.

• Drive performance, reliability, and scalability validation of distributed storage systems.

• Collaborate effectively with development teams to deliver high-quality enterprise storage software.