Senior Staff Software Engineer in Test
Druva
Pune, Maharashtra, IndiaPosted 1 month ago
Skill Required
HybridSoftware EngineerSoftware DeveloperShell ScriptingPostmanKubernetesObservabilityCassandraRESTMongoDBPythonDockerAzureLinuxAgileDesign PatternsJavaJiraSQLAWSGitIAM
Key highlights
- Senior SDET role
- B.Tech / B.E / M.E. / M.Tech (Computer Science) or equivalent required
- Role involves designing test strategies, improving automation frameworks, and working closely with developers for distributed, cloud-based systems
Role overview
Druva, the resilience foundation for the AI enterprise, is seeking a highly skilled Senior SDET with strong engineering fundamentals, deep automation capability, and a passion for quality in distributed, cloud-based systems. This role involves designing test strategies, improving automation frameworks, and working closely with developers to ensure the reliability and security of complex backup workflows within the Enterprise Workload unified server backup and archival product (Phoenix). You will contribute across the full lifecycle - from feature design and white-box testing to deployment and validation in cloud environments.
Responsibilities
- Work closely with the development team in an Agile environment to understand functional specifications and design requirements.
- Independently create comprehensive feature test plans aligned with development milestones and feature completion.
- Leverage existing automation frameworks to automate feature tests and actively augment libraries to support new functionalities.
- Own the complete test execution cycle for user stories, ensuring high-quality delivery.
- Perform a mix of automated, manual, white-box, and black-box testing.
- Create, maintain, and document testbed setups and environments.
- Timely reporting, tracking, and updating of issues and test cases using management tools.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure quality benchmarks are met throughout the development lifecycle.
Requirements
- Strong expertise in Windows/Linux, file systems, and OS-level concepts.
- Solid understanding of threading, multiprocessing, and socket programming.
- Good knowledge of networking and cloud architecture fundamentals, preferably with exposure to AWS and/or Azure services (networking, storage, compute, IAM).
- Proficiency in Python or Java (Python preferred).
- Strong Shell scripting ability.
- Hands-on experience with SQL databases.
- Strong experience in REST API testing and backend automation.
- Proficiency with tools like Git, Jira, XRay, etc.
- Strong analytical and debugging skills.
- B.Tech / B.E / M.E. / M.Tech (Computer Science) or equivalent.
Nice to have
- Understanding of Docker, or Kubernetes.
- Experience with NoSQL systems (MongoDB, Cassandra).
- Experience testing workloads on AWS/Azure, including basic resource setup, debugging and monitoring (Cloudwatch etc).
Additional details
- Druva is the resilience foundation for the AI enterprise, helping organizations secure and recover from connected risk across data, cyber, identity, and AI.
- The Resilience Cloud is a fully managed, cloud-native SaaS platform that delivers air-gapped and immutable protection across cloud, SaaS, on-premises, endpoint, and edge environments.
- Powered by Dru MetaGraph, Druva's graph-powered intelligence layer, the platform connects critical business context so customers can understand risk, respond faster, recover cleanly, and govern data with greater confidence.
- Trusted by nearly 7,500 customers, including 75 of the Fortune 500, Druva helps safeguard the critical information and systems businesses depend on in an increasingly connected world.
- Visit druva.com and follow Druva on LinkedIn, X and Facebook.
- Enterprise Workload is a unified server backup and archival built on Druva's secure, enterprise-trusted, and high-performance cloud platform.
- With Phoenix, data can be stored indefinitely with limitless snapshots and flexible retention policies, while at the same time significantly lowering your backup costs.
- Druva takes a multi-layered approach to securing data that is unmatched in the industry – enabling organizations to address both their data security and data privacy requirements.
- This role is for a Senior SDET position.