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Senior Quality Engineer - S3
Job in
California, Moniteau County, Missouri, 65018, USA
Listed on 2026-07-24
Listing for:
Data Direct Networks
Full Time
position Listed on 2026-07-24
Job specializations:
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Quality Assurance - QA/QC
Quality Engineering, IT QA Tester / Automation
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Location: California
Senior Staff Quality Engineer – S3
Employment Type:
Full time
Location Type:
On-site
- Own, extend, and improve the test strategy and automation framework for our S3 implementation.
- Define and articulate quality designs and test plans with appropriate technical depth, focusing on a shift-left approach.
- Drive quality across the full development lifecycle— from design review participation through release validation.
- Participate in technical and design reviews to identify testability gaps and quality risks early.
- Architect and troubleshoot test coverage for system-level components, with emphasis on file system behavior, storage system correctness, and S3 protocol compliance.
- Undertake research-based quality tasks: define a test approach for novel features, document findings, and derive coverage conclusions; design validation strategies based on the research conducted.
- Mentor junior QE engineers and embed quality practices within development teams; lead by example across the QE spectrum.
- Support product deployment validation and drive production defect triage and reproduction in a timely manner.
- Accountable and highly motivated with solid people skills.
- 12+ years of experience in systems software quality engineering and complex problem investigation.
- Demonstrated ability to develop not just happy path testing, but testing designed to exclude possibility of customer‑visible failures.
- Expert knowledge of C/C++; strong scripting ability in Python and shell for test automation.
- Excellent Linux development and test environment skills, including file system‑level testing.
- Full understanding of OS principles and kernel architecture as they relate to test design and defect analysis.
- Broad experience with open‑source development tool chains including gcc, gdb, g++, and git.
- Experience designing and validating parallel and concurrent programs.
- Good communication skills (verbal and written English).
- Deep understanding of Linux file systems and the ability to reason about correctness at the syscall and VFS layers.
- Knowledge of user‑space IO frameworks such as FUSE and SPDK, with ability to design tests that exercise them end‑to‑end.
- Strong understanding of RDMA network principles, libfabric, zero‑copy, and verbs — with ability to validate behavior in these environments.
- Experience with performance engineering and the design of performance regression test suites.
- Experience working with Scrum/Agile development processes.
- Experience testing complex network protocol implementations including TCP/IP or RDMA.
- Familiarity with S3 protocol conformance testing and object storage semantics.
- Highly Competitive Vacation Plans
- Paid Holidays
- Bonus Programs
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Employee Referral Program
- Excellent Medical, Dental and Vision Benefits
- Paid Leave Programs
- Anniversary and Recognition Awards
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#J-18808-LjbffrPosition Requirements
10+ Years
work experience
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