DPX QA Engineer

Catalogic Software helps organizations worldwide to catalog, protect, and manage their data. We are committed to delivering the industry’s most intelligent copy data and data protection solutions.

https://www.catalogicsoftware.com
This job description covers our DPX product. See the link above for high-level details.

This posting is for direct hires to Catalogic Software’s new Pune division.

Our QA team is looking to fill a technical staff position on our Quality Assurance team.

The DPX QA Engineer role fulfills the bulk of our organization’s daily hands on Quality Assurance testing and lab management.

A DPX QA Engineer will generally have access to a wide range of technologies to be used in the overall manual test and test automation activities. QA engineers review issue management and test case systems for necessary work, perform deployments, manage build systems, configure storage platforms, and assess the quality/stability of software prior to release. Along the way, QA engineers are expected to explore the overall sensibility and performance of our software and escalate anything that might be confusing or complicated for our customers.

All QA engineers will be involved in manual testing efforts. Most QA engineers will be involved in provisioning resources for technical departments. Most QA engineers will be involved to review automated test results, analyze logs, and reproduce issues prior to escalation.

Some QA engineers (depending on experience) will be involved in programming activities to maintain and improve our emerging QA automation systems.

This is an individual contributor role. Ideal candidates will have from 2-7 years of experience.

Experience loading operating systems, server software, and using testing utilities to measure and troubleshoot is required.

Ideal candidates will have worked with a data protection, storage, networking, or other similar industry. You will have a broad range of hands-on technology experience, but should have specialty in 2 or more of the following areas:

• Server administration Unix, Linux, Windows server
• Container administration: Docker, Docker Swarm, Kubernetes, Podman
• Application experience: SQL server, Oracle, SAP HAHA, Cache, Exchange
• Data protection products and protocols: NDMP, tape library, Cloud integration
• Hypervisor experience: VMware, Hyper-V
• Network administration: switch, firewall, router, security
• Cloud administration: AWS, Azure, IBM COS, Google
• Netapp Storage administration experience, Clustered Data Ontap
• Utilities: wireshark, IOzone, Vdbench, Ansible, Gitlab, Concourse, Jenkins
• Bash command line and scripting
• Python programming experience, REST API
• DevOps skills on release engineering, CI/CD, build automation, test automation

Not all of these specialties are required for all positions. In general, expertise in at least 2 and broad knowledge of other areas will be considered.

This job covers our DPX product. The position reports up to a QA manager charged with maintaining multiple software products for a fast paced software engineering company.

Technical aptitude is important here. We need people who are smart, trainable, can read & follow (English language) technical documentation, and perform technical tasks including but not limited to: working with hardware, configuring storage, loading operating systems, interacting with software and web based applications, and running through complex test scenarios using our software.

Soft skills are important here. We desire coachable, positive-minded people. Critical thinkers that can try & suggest new methods of test management. Being detail oriented is very important. We need team players that can collaborate across teams and also work independently when needed. Customer interaction may be required at times.

Other non-technical tasks would include but not limited to: managing test cases, producing reports, reviewing customer issues, analyzing bug reports, constructing new test cases & plans, writing documentation, assisting with distributing software assets to partners & customers.

Depending on skill and interest, we can offer opportunities to grow in DevOps, System administration, QA Automation, and Programming roles.

As work in this role progresses, you will be trained and gain experience in one or more technical areas, and will have opportunity to grow into areas of interest and skill. Training on enterprise equipment and our developed software solutions will be provided as needed.

Position is offered in our Pune, India office.