Senior Member of Technical Staff - QA

Brief Description

We are looking for a Senior Member of Technical Staff with extensive experience in automation development, test strategizing and mentorship skills to be part of our dynamic and growing Team. You must have experience leading and inspiring a team of engineers whilst ensuring top quality of the product. The ability to think 'outside the box' is crucial in designing test cases to adequately and quickly assess the integrity of the product.

We are working on exciting new challenges in building a cloud scale distributed object store - one of the fundamental building blocks of Cloud Infrastructure and large scale appliances. We are on the journey to build the best-in-breed Hybrid Cloud product and Cloud Native solutions. If you are up to the challenge and would like to be a part of a team that makes history, then this job might be for you.

Responsibilities:

• Developing high level test strategies based on product requirement including strategies for automation, system and manual exploratory testing.
• Collaborate with development team to ensure that code developed is testable, build any test hooks if required and to arrive at project schedules and resource allocation models for successful delivery.
• Analysing failures and determining root cause, setting the expectations of the solution/behaviour based on the requirements.   
• Manage the planning and execution of product testing efforts, including all associated resources to meet committed delivery dates. 
• Develop KPIs to measure the success of the QA Automation Team.
• Provide mentorship and review the work of other specialists/Junior engineers.
• Should be able to work with the Nutanix Global (mainly India and USA) engineering and multi-functional teams

Requirements:

• Love for writing clean, modular code in a fast-paced environment.
• Deep understanding of scalable and distributed systems.
• Solid Python experience preferred.
• Experience with S3 and other Object Stores preferred.
• Working knowledge on containerized services, Docker and Kubernetes is preferred.
• Knowledge of virtualization and Cloud Infrastructure is a plus.

 Qualifications and Experience

• BE or MS in Computer Science or related stream is required.
• 8+ years of software testing experience including expertise with automation. or MS in Computer Science or related stream is required.
• 8+ years of software testing experience including expertise with automation.·      
• Hands-on development in at least one of the programming languages: Python·      
• Hands-on experience working with version control / DevOps tools – Git, Gerrit, or Jenkins 

**About us
**Founded in 2009 and headquartered in San Jose, California, Nutanix is a passionate team of 6000+ employees worldwide. Our people (we call ourselves “Nutants”) are the heartbeat of #LifeAtNutanix and one of the many things that makes Nutanix a great place to work at. We share an intellectual curiosity, a bias for action, and an obsession for our customers. We are builders and problem solvers with an entrepreneurial spirit. Above all, we celebrate what makes each of us unique. 

We’re growing fast and disrupting the computing industry. Join us and make your mark.

**About our business
**Nutanix is a global leader in cloud software and a pioneer in hyperconverged infrastructure solutions, making computing invisible anywhere. Companies around the world use Nutanix software to leverage a single platform to manage any app, at any location, at any scale for their private, hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

**We’re an equal opportunity employer
**Nutanix is an Equal Employment Opportunity and (in the U.S.) an Affirmative Action employer. Qualified applicants are considered for employment opportunities without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, disability status or any other category protected by applicable law. We hire and promote individuals solely on the basis of qualifications for the job to be filled.

We strive to foster an inclusive working environment that enables all our Nutants to be themselves and to do great work in a safe and welcoming environment, free of unlawful discrimination, intimidation or harassment.