Dell - Software Principal Engineer - Automation Testing

What youll achieve :

You will also have the opportunity to drive continual process improvements for the evolution of testing procedures and influence shift left test
strategy.

You will :

- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define test strategies, author test plans, and provide automation requirements and specifications.

- Validate complex, distributed storage systems across multi-config test environments.

- Design and execute tests that account for non-deterministic behaviors in distributed systems, ensuring robustness under unpredictable conditions

- Collaborate with appropriate stakeholders to make sure your test environment validates the customer use cases as closely as possible.

- Identify, document, and track defects through resolution.

- Participate in the review and evaluation of product requirements, specification and design docs to ensure quality is built into every stage of development.

- Advocate for Systems Quality by anchoring every technical decision in a deep understanding of customer needs, anticipating edge cases and real-world impact.

- Take the first step towards your dream career

- Every Dell Technologies team member brings something unique to the table.
Heres what

We are looking for with this role :

Essential Requirements :

- 8 -12 years of hands-on experience in software testing and test automation (Python,
JavaScript)- preferably within an enterprise storage product environment (either onpremise or cloud) where Distributed Systems architecture is a key component.

- Deep knowledge of file systems, storage protocols, snapshots and data replication :

Read/Write (IOPs, Latency, Bandwidth), I/O datapath, NFS, SMB, S3, ACLs,
networking layers (switching, routing, vlans)

- Good understanding of how end customers use/deploy Storage Systems in
production environments.

- Experience in related system software projects e.g : Operating systems, Linux Kernel, Hypervisors, Containers etc.

- Ability to deploy and use 3rd party IO tools such as; Load Dynamix, Mongoose, fio to
simulate IO test workloads as a supplement to real workloads.

- Skilled at reviewing and collaborating on product design docs and have competency
in authoring detailed test plans.

Desirable Requirements :

- Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical
experience.

- Thorough understanding of how to leverage non-deterministic testing to ensure
system reliability, fault tolerance, scalability, and concurrency