Test Engineer

Overview

Own Every Moment at Net App At Net App, your ideas power innovation. We lead in intelligent data infrastructure—delivering unified storage, integrated data services, and solutions that help organizations unlock the full potential of their data, from AI to multicloud.

Ready to innovate and contribute to our path to $10B? Here, you'll collaborate with passionate teams, tackle real-world challenges, and see your impact in how customers transform and grow. If you're ready to bring curiosity, creativity, and drive to every moment, Net App is where your journey begins.

About Net App Net App is the intelligent data infrastructure company, turning a world of disruption into opportunity for every customer. No matter the data type, workload or environment, we help our customers identify and realize new business possibilities. And it all starts with our people. You can help bring new ideas to life, approaching each challenge with fresh eyes. Of course, you won’t be doing it alone.

At Net App, we’re about asking for help when we need it, collaborating with others, and partnering across the organization - and beyond. Net App embraces a hybrid working environment designed to strengthen connection, collaboration, and culture for all employees, with in-office and/or in-person expectations shared during recruitment.

As a Test Engineer for this position, you will be responsible for supporting the manufacturing testing of Net App products throughout their lifecycle—from new product introduction (NPI) through ongoing manufacturing support. This role involves close collaboration with cross-functional teams to contribute to the design, development, and implementation of test processes that achieve optimal product quality and test coverage. You will work with OEM and EMS partner engineers to address issues efficiently and support timely delivery standards for high-quality products.

Responsibilities include developing, modifying, and executing software test plans and cases, both manually and through automation. This role offers significant opportunities for continued technical growth and meaningful input into technical decisions that drive departmental objectives.

• Contribute to manufacturing test strategies and work with engineering teams.
• Support requirements validation for test automation, participate in equipment selection, and conduct manufacturing verification tests.
• Develop, modify, and execute software test plans and test cases (manual and automated).
• Document procedures and support continuous improvement initiatives.
• Analyze yields and contribute to test coverage efforts; deliver feedback to engineering teams.
• Assist with product transfers, setups, test equipment utilization and maintenance.
• Perform manufacturing verification tests and support timely delivery standards.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure high-quality products.

Technical Expertise:

• Foundational understanding of data storage technologies and storage operating systems; familiarity with file systems, high availability configurations, virtualization layers, and system administration tools.
• Familiarity with NAS/SAN concepts and block-level and file-level protocols (NFS, CIFS/SMB, Fibre Channel).
• Experience with storage hardware components (drives, disk shelves, IOM modules, cables, controllers) including basic installation and troubleshooting.
• Familiarity with drive types (SATA, SAS, NVMe, SSD) and their performance profiles and use cases.
• Exposure to storage networking topologies (iSCSI, NFS over TCP/IP, multipathing).
• Good understanding of Linux/Unix-like OS; basic TCP/IP switching and routing.
• Strong computer hardware fundamentals, embedded systems, or electronics knowledge.

Testing & Validation:

• Experience executing test strategies and developing test scripts for storage and/or networking hardware.
• Ability to analyze and troubleshoot storage hardware, firmware, and system software with guidance from senior team members.
• Support requirements validation for test automation, assist with equipment selection, and conduct manufacturing verification tests.
• Experience analyzing test results, supporting…