System QA Automation Engineer

Description:

VAST Data is looking for a System QA Automation Engineer to join our growing team!

This is a great opportunity to be part of one of the fastest-growing infrastructure companies in history, an organization that is in the center of the hurricane being created by the revolution in artificial intelligence.

"VAST's data management vision is the future of the market."- Forbes

VAST Data is the data platform company for the AI era. We are building the enterprise software infrastructure to capture, catalog, refine, enrich, and protect massive datasets and make them available for real-time data analysis and AI training and inference. Designed from the ground up to make AI simple to deploy and manage, VAST takes the cost and complexity out of deploying enterprise and AI infrastructure across data center, edge, and cloud.

Our success has been built through intense innovation, a customer-first mentality and a team of fearless VASTronauts who leverage their skills & experiences to make real market impact. This is an opportunity to be a key contributor at a pivotal time in our company’s growth and at a pivotal point in computing history.

We are seeking a System QA Automation Engineer to drive the validation of our high-performance distributed storage platform, designed for massive AI workloads. In this role, you will architect automation frameworks and tests from the ground up, ensuring seamless integration with the world’s leading orchestration platforms (Kubernetes, OpenShift, OpenStack, Terraform, and vSphere). You will be responsible for defining test strategies, building Python-based tools, and certifying our NFS drivers across a complex matrix of Linux environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and test complex distributed storage products from scratch using Python to interface with storage controllers and orchestration APIs.
• Validate storage provisioning, management, and performance within Kubernetes, OpenShift, OpenStack (Cinder/Manila), and VMware vSphere environments.
• Lead the testing and certification of NFS drivers (v3/v4) on diverse client operating systems (various Linux distros, Windows Server).

• Experience: 6+ years of proven experience in QA automation, with a focus on storage, infrastructure, or distributed systems.
• Good level in Python (OOP) for building robust test frameworks and test procedures.
• Deep hands-on experience with Kubernetes (K8s) / Red Hat OpenShift / OpenStack architecture and services
• Deep understanding of operating systems (Unix, Linux, Windows).
• Experience in large-scale systems, distributed environments, and cloud-native orchestration platforms.
• Strong expertise in software system testing, CI/CD automation, and software reliability engineering.
• Demonstrates excellent problem-solving and critical thinking abilities to identify and address complex issues in software systems.
• Understanding of QA processes and procedures.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with public cloud platforms (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure).
• Knowledge of advanced networking (TCP/IP tuning, RDMA/InfiniBand).
• Experience with Terraform for Infrastructure as Code.
• Familiarity with storage protocols beyond NFS (e.g., NVMe-over-Fabrics, S3).
• B.Sc. or B.A. degree in Computer Science or Engineering.