Senior Staff Software Engineer - QA

Hammerspace is a software company building a data foundation for the AI era through high-performance file systems and intelligent data orchestration. The Senior Staff Software Engineer - QA will lead storage feature testing, develop test strategies and automation, review designs, conduct system and stress testing, and collaborate with development, tools, and customer support teams.

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

Requirements:

• 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
• Familiarity with Windows Server and Active Directory administration