Staff QA Engineer

Overview

Staff QA Engineer providing technical leadership for quality engineering across DDN Horizon Control, including Horizon Control and Horizon Store, for a distributed cloud-native system.

What you'll do

• Define test strategy, coverage, automation strategy, quality gates, and release readiness criteria.
• Build and maintain scalable test automation frameworks and reusable test libraries, fixtures, mocks, and reporting solutions.
• Design and execute integration testing across specified Horizon Control components and platform technologies.
• Drive functional, integration, system, security, and non-functional testing improvements and release validation.
• Validate distributed system reliability behaviors and run failure injection/resiliency testing scenarios.
• Design and execute performance, scalability, stress, longevity, upgrade, and serviceability testing with performance automation.
• Plan and execute testing, defect triage, risk assessments, and troubleshooting/root-cause analysis for customer issues.

What you'll need

• 12+ years of software quality engineering experience.
• Strong programming skills in Go, Python, Java, or a comparable language.
• Hands-on experience building automation frameworks from scratch.
• Strong experience with API testing and automation.
• Strong understanding of REST APIs, OpenAPI, JSON, and event-driven architectures.
• Experience working with Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, and GitHub Actions.
• Experience validating asynchronous systems and messaging platforms.

Details

• Location: Pune Office.