Member of Technical Staff 3 - External Storage
Job Description:
We are looking for a creative, independent, self-motivated individual who is willing to learn new technology and be part of the VMware External storage team to work on VMware's new storage operational model centered on Virtual Machines called vVols (Virtual Volumes) and Next Gen Storage Stack (NVMe)
In this position you will be responsible for architecting, developing, maintaining test automation for functional verification of the vVols and vSphere Storage specific features, work closely with development, product management teams and other stakeholders to design, develop, validate new features, help investigate customer issues to debug and validate the fix.
This is a highly technical role and the desired candidate should be well versed with storage Protocols (SCSI, NVMe), Storage domain knowledge, virtualization technologies, File/Block and Object storage architectures, test framework development, and one or more programming languages.
Responsibilities:
- Work with the engineering team for new feature design, implementation and debugging issues.
- Own product areas and track test deliverables as per product release schedule.
- Develop test methodology (designing the test approach) to test the feature end-to-end, low level tests to validate building blocks of storage stack
- Test Plan and Automation framework development.
- Automate new feature test cases end to end along with the execution and maintenance of existing regression test suites.
- Analyze failures and root cause issues, file defects, follow up for closure and documentation.
- Monitor and manage continuous integration environments in Jenkins Pipeline.
- Continually increase test code efficiency and lower cycle times.
- Collaborate with other stakeholders, developers, Ecosystem engineers, technical writers to support them and ensure the company delivers high-quality products to our customers.
Requirements:
- Hands-on experience in validation and debugging on at least one of the Storage protocols [SCSI, NVMe, FC, iSCSI, NFS, FCoE].
- Experience working with any Object Storage architecture and exposure to VMWare ESXi storage stack, storage solutions on WSFC and VMware VAAI, VVOLs, vSAN etc.
- Strong programming skills and several years of test automation framework development experience using Java, Python or C/C++.
- Strong analytical, diagnostic and problem-solving skills with the ability to work independently.
- Domain expertise in virtualization and storage technologies.
- Excellent troubleshooting abilities spanning multiple software and hardware components (such as storage systems, kernels and management platforms etc..)
- Hands-on product development experience in the storage domain and TestNG framework is a plus.
Qualification:
- BE/BTech from a reputed university with 5 - 8 years of industry experience or MS in Computer Science with 4 - 6 years of industry experience.
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