Uplers Hiring for Quality Assurance Manager (Remote) at Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, India

Experience: 12.00 + years

Salary: Confidential (based on experience)

Expected Notice Period: 30 Days

Shift: (GMT+05:30) Asia/Kolkata (IST)

Opportunity Type: Remote

Placement Type: Full Time Permanent position(Payroll and Compliance to be managed by: DDN)

(*Note: This is a requirement for one of Uplers’ client – DDN)

What do you need for this opportunity?

Primary Skills:

Ethernet, Infiniband, Network Topology, Robot Framework, Team management, UNIX, HPC Distributed System, lustre, Parallel File System, Automation Testing, Linux, Python

DDN is Looking for:

We are looking for a proven Quality Assurance Manager who has demonstrated experience with enterprise level products. The role will interact daily with broad global team of Developers, Architects, Product Managers, DevOps Engineers, Technical Support as well as be part of the global testing team that is responsible for delivery of a strong and high-quality enterprise storage product.

Responsibilities for this role include but are not limited to:

• Work with a global team of stakeholders to understand requirements and define the product release and Quality Engineering (QE) strategy, which includes all integration, functional, performance, stress and stability testing of a distributed system.
• Working alongside peers, work on the transformation from Quality Assurance toward Quality Engineering, including emphasis on test automation.
• Manage and lead a team of India and US based Test Engineers as part of the wider global team, including personal development, professional and technical growth of direct reports.
• Utilize collaboration skills to partner with developers, quality engineers, and product owners to execute against established test plans, strategies, and timelines.
• Review solution requirements from a quality assessment point of view and participate in feature test scoping coverage.
• Create detailed, comprehensive, and well-structured test plans. Estimate, prioritize, plan, and coordinate testing activities.
• Drive test scoping of new features with input from development, product management, and test engineering.
• Provide key measurements/metrics to quantify and benchmark QE effectiveness, adjusting processes for continuous improvement.
• Review identified use cases to ensure all functional and feature test requirements are captured during the design and development phase.
• Lead appropriate technical meetings/scrums and message progress/status/concerns.
• Identify gaps in testing coverage by working with technical support for customer found issues.

Qualifications:

• BS/MS/Ph.D in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Statistics, Mathematics or equivalent degree/experience.
• 10+ years of experience in software quality validation for enterprise class products, ideally in large storage architectures or HPC distributed systems.
• At least 3 years of experience in the management of Quality Engineering test teams with a proven track record in testing modern software development
• Strong leadership and people management skills
• Experienced with working on customer found issues with support teams and engineering team to improve test coverage.
• Strong grasp and experience in SW test design, execution, automation, and metrics.
• Strong knowledge in software automation testing architectures and their implementations in CI/CD environment (preferably Jenkins and github action).
• Experienced with testing in a Docker container-based environment, using VMs/physical servers.
• Experience must include: good knowledge of Parallel Filesystems OR Lustre filesystem; High Availability & Failover concepts; understanding of InfiniBand and Ethernet in high- performance storage solutions; designing, developing, executing, and maintaining test cases and procedures; applying QA lifecycle methodologies for white box, black box, functional, combinatorial testing.
• Experience running Sprint iterations and implementing Agile scrum methodologies.
• Experience in Test automation using Robot Framework (will be a plus), Python, shell scripting in Linux/UNIX computing environments.
• Understanding of network topology, including how servers and clients in a cluster are connected with each other and to the switches.
• Experience with Test management tools (i.e. JIRA, Zephyr).
• Knowledge and understanding of DevOps work and practices.

How to apply for this opportunity?

• Register or login on our portal & fill out the application form.
• Clear the given Video Screening (30 min) and Click on ‘Apply’ to get shortlisted
• Once it’s all done, your profile will be shared with the client for the Interview round.
• When selected, just meet the client and get your exciting career started!

About our Client – DDN:

The real differentiator is DDN. I never hesitate to recommend DDN. DDN is the de facto name for AI Storage in high performance environments” – ~ Marc Hamilton VP, Solutions Architecture & Engineering | NVIDIA

DDN is the world’s largest private data storage company and the leading provider of intelligen? technology and infrastructure solutions for data-centric organizations.

Over the last two decades, DDN has established itself as the data management provider of choice for over 11,000 enterprises, government, and public-sector customers, including many of the world’s leading financial services firms, life science organizations, manufacturing and energy companies, research facilities, and web and cloud service providers.

Data-intensive, global organizations utilize DDN to solve complex business challenges with:

• 40% reduction in file access time
• 100% GPU utilization
• 100X faster application acceleration
• Predictable growth at any scale
• Less infrastructure and complexity
• 20+ years of experience in data storage and management

How we do it:

• Our team is highly motivated and focused on engineering excellence.
• We look for individuals who appreciate challenging themselves and thrive on curiosity.
• Engineers are encouraged to work across multiple areas of the company.
• We operate with a flat organizational structure.
• All employees are expected to be hands-on and to contribute directly to the company’s mission.
• Leadership is given to those who show initiative and consistently deliver excellence. Work ethic and strong prioritization skills are important.
• All engineers and researchers are expected to have strong communication skills.
• They should be able to concisely and accurately share knowledge with their teammates.

About Uplers:

Our goal is to make hiring reliable, simple, and fast. Our role will be to help all our talents find and apply for relevant contractual onsite opportunities and progress in their career. We will support any grievances or challenges you may face during the engagement. You will also be assigned to a dedicated Talent Success Coach during the engagement.

(Note: There are many more opportunities apart from this on the portal. Depending on the assessments you clear, you can apply for them as well).

So, if you are ready for a new challenge, a great work environment, and an opportunity to take your career to the next level, don’t hesitate to apply today. We are waiting for you!