Senior Software Development Engineer in Test

Cohesity sees rapid adoption in enterprises and the scale of deployments is growing every quarter. We believe that System Testing is one of the critical components for providing an ideal user experience when running different workloads. It is the most highly visible and impactful area that has the potential for defining the strategic directions for Cohesity’s hyper-converged appliance.

We're seeking a skilled SDET who is passionate about System Testing, has an intuitive understanding of the limits of every layer in the hardware/software stack, has the intellectual diligence to reason about the theoretical limits of our software architecture, and is responsible for the areas with the highest impact.

What you’ll do:

• Work on innovative products for our on-prem and SaaS offerings areas and act as a champion for test efforts of one or more features.
• Work with the engineering team during the feature design and implementation phases to develop:
• Bring your experiences within the test methodology (crafting the test approach) to test the feature end-to-end.
• Leverage previous knowledge to build test plans.
• Collaborate with other testing members, developers, technical writers, and customer solutions engineers to ensure the company delivers high-quality products to our customers.
• Implement multiple iterations of the test plan by running manual and automated test cases.
• Analyze failures and root cause issues, file defects, and follow up with developers, documentation, and other teams on the resolution.
• Automate test cases.
• Supervise and lead continuous integration environments.
• Mentor team members and provide influence to other business units.

What we’re Looking For:

• BCS or MCS in addition to the relevant professional experience
• Demonstrated ability in testing “systems” products (storage, networking, virtualization, etc.)
• Have a high bar for the quality of the product.
• Creative, independent, self-motivated, and willing to learn new technology.
• Possess a good understanding of QA methodologies and processes.
• Ability to take up a variety of roles in a startup environment.
• Excellent solving abilities spanning multiple software and hardware components (such as switches, storage systems, and kernels).
• Good knowledge of Linux and should become comfortable with Shell.
• Prior experience in programming, preferably in Go or Python.
• Knowledge of Hypervisors like ESXi, HyperV, and KVM.
• Experience with distributed systems (databases, storage, map-reduce frameworks, etc.) is a plus.
• Strong test planning ability is a huge plus.
• Validated experience in some of the following areas: Data Protection, Filesystem, Cloud, SaaS, and Platform.

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