Remote Senior QA Engineer – Storage & Distributed Systems

Hammerspace; United States; On-site; USD 160,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health plans

401k plans

Flexible time off

Job summary

Hammerspace is seeking a seasoned Senior Software QA Engineer with experience in testing storage, filesystems, distributed systems, and protocols (NFS, SMB). You will lead storage feature testing, design test strategies, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure product quality and reliability.

You will build and execute test plans, develop automation, and work with support to reproduce and debug customer issues.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience working on NFS/SMB protocols, Windows or/and Linux.
• Must have experience in multiple operating systems: Linux/Windows/VMware
• Strong knowledge of release management and testing lifecycle.
• Experience building test pipelines & infrastructure from a QA Engineer perspective
• Working knowledge of NAS File system testing
• Software test development experience with shell scripting, Python
• Experience with packet capture tools like Wireshark and tcpdump
• Experience writing and executing complex system level test plans, test cases and test reports
• Track record of being a key contributor in successful projects
• Strong oral and written communication skills, with a strong quality background
• BS in Computer Science with 10+ years of experience or MS in Computer Science with 8+ years of experience

Responsibilities

• Lead the testing of Storage features by participating in product design and building test strategies through hands-on testing and automation
• Review feature designs and provide feedback to the development team to improve product quality and testability
• Devise test strategies to find product vulnerabilities through cross-functional, system and stress testing
• Work closely with developers to understand new and existing features, bug fixes and develop test cases for new features and regression testing
• Collaborate with the tools team to develop test automation for different product features
• Interface and work with the Customer Support team to understand customer issues, reproduce them in-house and debug them
• Work remotely with a global team, communicating effectively via Slack, Zoom, Email, Confluence and Jira.

Skills

NFS/SMB protocols

Windows OS

Linux

Test automation

Release management

QA methodologies

Communication

Education

BS in Computer Science

MS in Computer Science

Tools

wireshark

tcpdump

Jira

Confluence

Slack

Zoom

Job description

Hammerspace is seeking a seasoned Senior Software QA Engineer with experience in testing storage, filesystems, distributed systems, and protocols (NFS, SMB). You will lead storage feature testing, design test strategies, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure product quality and reliability.

You will build and execute test plans, develop automation, and work with support to reproduce and debug customer issues.