Senior Engineer, Test Engineering

Company Description

“At Western Digital, our vision is to power global innovation and push the boundaries of technology to make what you thought was once impossible, possible.

At our core, Western Digital is a company of problem solvers. People achieve extraordinary things given the right technology. For decades, we’ve been doing just that—our technology helped people put a man on the moon and capture the first-ever picture of a black hole.

We offer an expansive portfolio of technologies, HDDs, and platforms for business, creative professionals, and consumers alike under our Western Digital®, WD®, WD_BLACK™, and SanDisk® Professional brands.

We are a key partner to some of the largest and highest-growth organizations in the world. From enabling systems to make cities safer and more connected, to powering the data centers behind many of the world’s biggest companies and hyperscale cloud providers, to meeting the massive and ever-growing data storage needs of the AI era, Western Digital is fueling a brighter, smarter future.

Today’s exceptional challenges require your unique skills. Together, we can build the future of data storage.”

Job Description

• Job Description Summary:

§ Your primary responsibility will be on Enterprise product validation for Western Digital SAS/NVMe/NVMeoF storage enclosures/servers, Interact with engineers across the company and coordinate testing activities.

§ To be able to deliver a quality product by performing all the necessary QA job functions.

§ Contribute majorly towards automating the test plan.

§ Debug firmware and hardware issues with SSD/HDD, storage products through the use of systematic tests to develop, apply, and maintain quality standards for company products.

§ Produce deliverables by developing, modifying, and executing software test plans.

§ Consults with development engineers in resolution of problems.

§ Troubleshoot/isolate issues to root cause, down to the right component in the test ecosystem.

Qualifications

• Job Description:

• 4-6 years’ experience of Server / Storage QA automation & testing with SSDs, firmware and storage subsystems
• Excellent knowledge of Storage Servers, Storage Arrays – JBOD, JBOFs, NAS, SAN
• In-depth working knowledge of SAS, SCSI, PCIe protocols
• Working knowledge on SSD and debugging skills is a plus.
• Understand Hardware and Software interaction
• Working knowledge on SAS/PCIe analyzers is a plus
• Install and configure various hardware and software components
• Perform bug verification and drive issues to resolution
• Ability to write Python scripts for automated tests and contribute towards automation framework
• White box testing knowledge is a plus
• Solid working knowledge of operating systems: Windows / Linux including trouble shooting issues/problems with those systems
• Assist in customer escalations
• Understand Software development Life Cycle
• Excellent communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills
• Ability to achieve results in a fast moving, dynamic environment
• Ability to multi-task and meet deadlines
• Self-motivated and Self-driven

Additional Information

• Participate in key product development and technical teams
• Excellent knowledge in Software development lifecycle and engineering processes 
• Capable of working as part of a global development team spanning across geos.
• Good stake holder management and interact with program managers, sales, quality and cross geo teams.
• Be an Agile team member with TTM as a goal with high quality deliveries. 
• Contribute to team goals, schedules.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.