Title:  Software Development Engineer in Test

Job Summary

As a technical member of the System Test Engineering (STE) team, you will work as part of the team responsible for software validation, testing and automation of Platform software and Firmware. As part of the Research and Development function, the overall focus of the group is on competitive market and customer requirements, technology advances, product quality, product cost and time-to-market. This position requires and individual who is creative, self-motivated, team-oriented, technology savvy, and driven to produce results for the NetApp business. 

Job Requirements

A major part of your responsibility will be to apply current skills and use up-to-date technologies to complete projects as part of the testing cycle including:
•    Understand the functional requirements of the Platform software and firmware and create the test plans. 
•    Capture, Debug, analyze and report the problems found during test execution. 
•    Ability to use the software Test tools, utilities and Automation Framework and make changes to the tools as required. 
•    Conform to the standard testing practices common to the company from time to time. 
•    Communicate progress and escalate issues precisely to the management in a timely manner and able to work closely with the software Development and QA teams. 
•    Would need to provide feedback to the software design and development engineers for test interface requirements in support of verification testing and automation. 
•    Willingness to work on additional tasks and responsibilities that will contribute towards team, department, and company goals.
•    Must have strong background in Linux Operating systems Internals and X86 based platform device drivers. 
•    Good experience in software validation/testing in the areas of platform and storage controller specifics, boot configurations, Network configurations, memory error injection, system level Diagnostics, Bus interface tests for I/O devices, Memory (NVRAM, NVMEM and Flash etc.), PCI/PCI-Express Interface, power cycle tests and environmental compliance tests. 
•    Must have hands-on knowledge in Firmware and microcontrollers specific testing. 
•    Computer hardware and architecture knowledge, including processor, memory, motherboard, and I/O subsystem and understanding of concepts related to data structures and standard programming practice. 
•    Must have strong test automation experience using  Python experience is a plus.
•    Strong aptitude for learning new technologies.
•    Ability to own and drive a task to its completion. 
•    Excellent team player. Ability to interact with cross-functional teams. 

Education

•    4-8 years of relevant experience is preferred. 
•    A Bachelor or master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science or equivalent experience is required. 
•    Demonstrated ability to have completed multiple, moderately complex technical tasks.