- Work with peer test engineers to develop overall automation test architecture that is flexible and reusable across other supported storage platforms.

- Work closely with the Test Architect, Test Leads, Test Engineers and Developers/Designers to understand and identify any challenges that could impact the delivery of test automation scripts.

- Work with Test Leads and Test Engineers to provide justification for necessary automation tasks.

- Work with system architecture/design team to understand future roadmap to include them in the test automation architecture & design to handle that.

- Support development & QA teams with system setup, administration, configuration and troubleshoot issues arising out of use of the scripts thus developed.

- Participate appropriately in technical meetings/scrums and report progress/status/ concerns to the next level.

- Review solution requirements from a QA standpoint & participate in feature test scoping as input for development of the product roadmap.

- Drive process improvements within the local test organization.

- Knowledge of SAN/NAS technology & use of various synthetic IO Tools for performance & stress testing.

- Good to have knowledge of 100 Gigabit Ethernet, Fiber Channel and Infiniband Technology.

Qualifications For This Role Are :

- Bachelors degree in a relevant field (engineering, quality or related) is required.

- 6+ years of software test automation development and/or QA experience.

- Must have significant knowledge of test automation and scripting environments.

- Experience with all phases of the development life cycle.

- Experience with QA methodology, functional and structural testing techniques.

- Experience with some or all C, Perl, and BASH; experience with Python, XML, and/or SQL is a plus.

- Experience using source code control systems (SVN preferred).

- Experience using, SQA defect tracking systems (Rally & JIRA preferred).

- Ability to read and understand coding languages and logic.

- Good problem solving, organizational, interpersonal and team skills.

- 10+ years experience in system setup, administration and/or general IT functions; network architecture experience is a plus.

- Experience in Storage Domain (SAN, NAS or File system Testing), High Performance Computing preferred.

- Experience in one or more of the storage protocols; IB, iSCSI/iSER, NVMe, FC.

- Good experience in CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, and synthetic IO tools such as IOR, IOZone, dd/xdd and other Linux based Performance measurement techniques & tools.

- Worked on Linux kernel driver development and testing would be an added advantage.

- Well verse with storage technologies and testing concepts.

DDN :

- DDN has a very strong orientation towards these 4 characteristics and any successful employee will demonstrate these capabilities:

- Self-Starter Takes independent action to identify and solve problems.

- Seeks out relevant information needed to make decisions.

- Gets involved with new initiatives.

- Success/Achievement Orientation Delivers quality results consistently.

- Targets, achieves (or exceeds) measurable results.

- Sets challenging goals, focuses on critical priorities, and is accountable.

- Problem Solving Recognizes problems and responds with a systematic assessment that identifies and addresses cause of issue.

- Practical, realistic, and resourceful.