SDET, Flash Blade
Pure Storage · Bangalore · 5+ yrs experience · Posted 2026-06-27
Tech stack: Linux
About the role
We’re in an unbelievably exciting area of tech and are fundamentally reshaping the data storage industry. Here, you lead with innovative thinking, grow along with us, and join the smartest team in the industry.
This type of work—work that changes the world—is what the tech industry was founded on. So, if you're ready to seize the endless opportunities and leave your mark, come join us.
SHOULD YOU ACCEPT THIS CHALLENGE...
The FlashBlade team is expanding the Quality Engineering team in our office in Bangalore to focus on defining & refining, building and to maintain an evolving suite of tests to ship FlashBlade for Enterprise Readiness with the highest quality. You will be working with Developers, Solution Architects and Product Managers to define and develop and bring optimal test coverage for FlashBlade use cases.
Responsibilities:
- We’re in an unbelievably exciting area of tech and are fundamentally reshaping the data storage industry. Here, you lead with innovative thinking, grow along with us, and join the smartest team in the industry. This type of work—work that changes the world—is what the tech industry was founded on. So, if you're ready to seize the endless opportunities and leave your mark, come join us. SHOULD YOU ACCEPT THIS CHALLENGE... The FlashBlade team is expanding the Quality Engineering team in our office in Bangalore to focus on defining & refining, building and to maintain an evolving suite of tests to ship FlashBlade for Enterprise Readiness with the highest quality. You will be working with Developers, Solution Architects and Product Managers to define and develop and bring optimal test coverage for FlashBlade use cases.
Qualifications:
- (EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE)
- Hands-on experience in software testing and test automation - preferably within an enterprise storage product environment (either on-premise or cloud) where Distributed Systems architecture is a key component.
- Experience working closely in flash storage is a big plus.
- Good knowledge of file systems, file system protocols, and data replication: Read/Write (IOPs, Latency, Bandwidth), I/O datapath, NFS, SMB, S3, ACLs, networking layers (switching, routing, vlans, LACP/lags), and replication specifics (like lag time, RTO, RPO).
- Strong Automation skills, Familiarity with automation tooling like pytest is a plus.
- Good understanding of how end customers use/deploy Storage Systems is a plus
- Familiarity with application ecosystems (e.g. Netbackup, Veeam, Commvault, Vertica, Elastic Search, and Database workloads) and directory services (e.g. openldap, ad, oud etc)
- Experience in any number of related system software projects e.g: Operating systems, Linux Kernel, Hypervisors, Containers etc
- Ability to deploy and use 3rd party IO tools such as; Load Dynamix, IOZone, fio, SpecFS, HCIBench to simulate IO test workloads as a supplement to real workloads.
- Skilled at reviewing and collaborating on product design docs and test plans and have competency in authoring detailed test plans.
- Have worked within Agile, Test-Driven Development, and Continuous Integration organizations.
- Stellar communication and collaboration skills
- Ability to work independently and with cross-functional teams to gather data to help with future automation project roadmaps.
- Experience in development and testing of RESTful web services and backend APIs
- 5+ years relevant work experience
Qualifications
- (EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE)
- Hands-on experience in software testing and test automation - preferably within an enterprise storage product environment (either on-premise or cloud) where Distributed Systems architecture is a key component.
- Experience working closely in flash storage is a big plus.
- Good knowledge of file systems, file system protocols, and data replication: Read/Write (IOPs, Latency, Bandwidth), I/O datapath, NFS, SMB, S3, ACLs, networking layers (switching, routing, vlans, LACP/lags), and replication specifics (like lag time, RTO, RPO).
- Strong Automation skills, Familiarity with automation tooling like pytest is a plus.
- Good understanding of how end customers use/deploy Storage Systems is a plus
- Familiarity with application ecosystems (e.g. Netbackup, Veeam, Commvault, Vertica, Elastic Search, and Database workloads) and directory services (e.g. openldap, ad, oud etc)
- Experience in any number of related system software projects e.g: Operating systems, Linux Kernel, Hypervisors, Containers etc
- Ability to deploy and use 3rd party IO tools such as; Load Dynamix, IOZone, fio, SpecFS, HCIBench to simulate IO test workloads as a supplement to real workloads.
- Skilled at reviewing and collaborating on product design docs and test plans and have competency in authoring detailed test plans.
- Have worked within Agile, Test-Driven Development, and Continuous Integration organizations.
- Stellar communication and collaboration skills
- Ability to work independently and with cross-functional teams to gather data to help with future automation project roadmaps.
- Experience in development and testing of RESTful web services and backend APIs
- 5+ years relevant work experience
Responsibilities
- We’re in an unbelievably exciting area of tech and are fundamentally reshaping the data storage industry.
- Here, you lead with innovative thinking, grow along with us, and join the smartest team in the industry.
- This type of work—work that changes the world—is what the tech industry was founded on.
- So, if you're ready to seize the endless opportunities and leave your mark, come join us.
- SHOULD YOU ACCEPT THIS CHALLENGE...
- The FlashBlade team is expanding the Quality Engineering team in our office in Bangalore to focus on defining & refining, building and to maintain an evolving suite of tests to ship FlashBlade for Enterprise Readiness with the highest quality.
- You will be working with Developers, Solution Architects and Product Managers to define and develop and bring optimal test coverage for FlashBlade use cases.