QA Engineer II

Responsibilities

• Work upon
• performance testing
• for a large‑scale
• distributed storage platform
• supporting
• S3 object storage, POSIX file systems, and block
• level protocols
• Write and maintain
• Ansible playbooks
• /roles for cluster setup, health checks, and install/configuration
• Contribute to
• Celery-based
• task orchestration for running I/O workloads in parallel
• FIO, IOR, mdtest, IO500, WARP
• Python
• scripts for parsing results, generating manifests, and normalizing metrics
• Help maintain the
• Assist with test
• reporting integration
• test failures and flaky pipeline run across protocols
• Work closely with developers to validate fixes and feature performance impact.

Requirements

• Python (2+ yrs): comfortable with scripting, basic async/task-queue concepts (Celery a plus)
• Ansible
• PostgreSQL
• Linux fundamentals
• filesystems, networking, processes
• Exposure to CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions or similar)
• storage concepts

Preferred

• Prior exposure to Redis/RabbitMQ or any message queue
• Grafana or other dashboarding tool experience
• Node.js basics
• Internship/project experience with performance testing or storage systems
• Familiarity with
• monitoring and metrics tools

The role requires knowledge & experience in

• storage performance testing, automation, and system level benchmarking, along with strong
• Python and Ansible skills to build scalable, repeatable test frameworks.

Execute and troubleshoot storage benchmarks

• Write
• PostgreSQL results schema and
• Grafana dashboards

Debug

Contribute new benchmark profiles (YAML workload definitions) under review

What You Bring

Working knowledge of

• (writing/modifying playbooks and roles)
• Basic SQL skills (

Understanding of

(block/file/object) — willingness to learn benchmarking tools (FIO, IOR, mdtest)

Nice to Have

(Prometheus, Grafana).