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The Opportunity
Are you a proactive and detail-oriented QA Engineer with experience of testing enterprise-level software? If so, join our team at Nutanix and work alongside brilliant software engineers in a fast-paced environment, where you’ll have the autonomy to build automation and break cutting-edge data protection solutions for hybrid cloud infrastructure.
Engineering / R&D at Nutanix
The QA Engineer (Data Protection) role would be part of Nutanix’s Disaster Recovery and Backup (BCDR) team. DR QA is a team of 50+ engineers across Bangalore, Sanjose, Pune and Durham. This team is highly collaborative, skilled, and friendly, fostering a learning and knowledge sharing culture. The team members work together to solve problems efficiently and effectively. They closely collaborate with other teams across the organization, providing opportunities for professional development and growth. The team follows a hybrid working style, coming to the office two-three days a week and valuing flexible schedules and transparent knowledge sharing through written documentation. Overall, it’s a dynamic and supportive team to be a part of.
Your Role
- End to end System Testing of product to mimic customer scenarios to qualify a product for a release.
- Design complex test beds and tools to maintain them.
- Build and automate detailed System Test Plans.
- Execute tests to identify bugs. Analyze and find root causes of failures.
What You Will Bring
- 6-8 years of software engineering experience
- Experience in Python/Perl/C/C++/Java
- Ability to debug and extend automated tests
- Skills in debugging complex distributed applications
- Experience in test plan design and development
- Experience testing a "systems" product
- Strong fundamentals in OOP, algorithms, data structures, and problem-solving
- Experience in enterprise networking and virtualization concepts
About the Team
Meeting the hiring manager
Hello, this is Narayan! I joined Nutanix 10 years ago and have worked in the Disaster Recovery and Backup (BCDR) team during that time. I started as a System Test Engineer and built the Durham QA team. Over the last few years, I have taken over the responsibility of leading all the QA teams for our BCDR group which is spread across multiple cities in India and, US.
What the Team Says
“Our team is a highly collaborative, skilled, and friendly group of engineers who foster a culture of learning and knowledge sharing. This creates an environment where any problem can be solved efficiently and effectively. Our work usually requires close collaboration with other teams across the organization, providing a valuable opportunity for professional development and growth.”
How we work
We work in a hybrid style and all of our team members would come to the office 2 days a week. We are trying to minimize the number of meetings and nurture the culture of writing and sharing documents, which helps us achieve a more flexible schedule and transparent knowledge sharing. We also have twice a week Nutanix lunch days that are a great opportunity to connect in person with the team and other colleagues.
The pay range for this position at commencement of employment is expected to be between USD $ 128,000 and USD $ 258,000 per year.
However, base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The total compensation package for this position may also include other elements, including a sign-on bonus, restricted stock units, and discretionary awards in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits (including 401(k) eligibility and various paid time off benefits, such as vacation, sick time, and parental leave), dependent on the position offered. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment.
If hired, employee will be in an “at-will position” and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors.
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