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Senior Staff Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET

Ddn

Full time On-site
Experience
8+ years
Location
Pune
Work mode
On-site
Salary
₹13L – ₹20L a year estimatetypical for IT Jobs in Pune, 56 posts
Posted 1 month ago

Role at a glance

You will
  • Design, develop, and maintain automated test frameworks using
  • Develop automated functional, integration, regression, performance, scalability, and reliability tests.
  • Design and execute fault-injection, failover, recovery, and chaos testing scenarios.
Experience
8+ years
Education
Bachelor's degree
Must-have skills
Bash ScriptingCI/CDDockerGitGitHub ActionsJenkins
Work mode
On-site

Job description

Location: Pune Office
Department: Department

We are looking for a highly motivated Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) to join our Scale-Out Storage Engineering team. The ideal candidate combines strong software development skills with deep testing expertise and has experience validating distributed systems, storage platforms, filesystems, and high-performance data platforms.

This role requires building automation frameworks, developing test infrastructure, and driving quality across the entire software development lifecycle for enterprise-scale distributed storage solutions.

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and maintain automated test frameworks using Python and PyTest.

  • Develop automated functional, integration, regression, performance, scalability, and reliability tests.

  • Design and execute fault-injection, failover, recovery, and chaos testing scenarios.

  • Develop automation for cluster deployment, upgrades, rolling updates, and disaster recovery workflows.

  • Work closely with developers to identify, reproduce, and resolve complex product issues.

  • Perform white-box testing by reviewing architecture, design documents, and code changes.

  • Build tools to improve test efficiency, coverage, reporting, and product quality metrics.

  • Analyze system behavior under node failures, network disruptions, disk failures, and workload stress conditions.

  • Participate in CI/CD pipeline development and test automation integration.

  • Drive quality initiatives and improve overall engineering productivity through automation.

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.

  • 8+ years of experience in Software QA, Test Automation, or SDET roles.

  • Strong programming skills in Python.

  • Extensive hands-on experience with PyTest.

  • Experience building and maintaining large-scale automation frameworks.

  • Strong Linux system administration and troubleshooting skills.

  • Experience testing distributed systems and enterprise storage products.

  • Strong understanding of:

    • Scale-out storage architectures

    • File, Block or Object storage

    • Data replication and erasure coding

  • Experience with Git, CI/CD pipelines, and test automation infrastructure.

Technical Skills

Programming & Automation

  • Python

  • PyTest

  • Shell Scripting (Bash)

  • Git

Infrastructure & DevOps

  • Jenkins, GitHub Actions

  • Docker

  • Monitoring and Observability Tools

Success Criteria

The successful candidate will:

  • Own quality initiatives for major storage features.

  • Build scalable automation frameworks that reduce manual testing effort.

  • Improve regression coverage and release confidence.

  • Drive performance, reliability, and scalability validation of distributed storage systems.

  • Collaborate effectively with development teams to deliver high-quality enterprise storage software.

Key skills

Required

Bash ScriptingCI/CDDockerGitGitHub ActionsJenkinsLinuxPyTestPythonShell ScriptingTest Automation

Job market insights

37active Bash Scripting jobs in Pune
152active CI/CD jobs in Pune
91active Docker jobs in Pune
₹13L – ₹20L advertised yearly salary for IT Jobs in Pune (middle half of 56 posts that show a salary; median ₹18L)
22 more open jobs at Ddn

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