Principal Test Engineer - System Test
About The Position
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: Using sound test engineering principles, knowledge of the product and technology to ensure the product meets functional and customer requirements and is ready to ship on schedule Owns product validation regarding test plan definition, test plan execution, and primary lead in failure analysis Primary lead in performing performance characterization of product and tracking down any observed anomalies Contributes to overall test schedule development Writes the test plans for new product features, generates test matrices, test reports, and other relevant test documentation that is required for flawless program execution Defines new tests based on customer feedback and defect fixes Executes existing/regression test cases for the project during the entire product development cycle Works closely with the other system test, hardware, ASIC and firmware engineers to improve test methodology and develop new tests and new strategies Configures customer hardware and software systems; troubleshoot problems to get to root cause Maintains customer and test equipment to current revision
Requirements
- Bachelors degree Masters degree in Engineering, Computer Science, other related Engineering discipline.
- A minimum of 3+ years of experience in Storage and Networking
- Programming experience utilizing Python, or other scripting languages
- Networking protocols
- Storage NVME
- Working Knowledge in Linux
- Experience in Automation
- Experience with the below:
- Secure Boot
- Secure Firmware Download
- Secure Debug
- Authentication
- Attestation
- Data in Flight Encryption
- IPsec, in Transport and Tunnel mode
- Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.3
- Asymmetric (Public-Private key) Cryptography
- Symmetric Cryptography (i.e. AES-GCM)
- Quantum-safe (Post-Quantum) Cryptography
Nice To Haves
- Secure development process
- Penetration testing experience
Responsibilities
- Using sound test engineering principles, knowledge of the product and technology to ensure the product meets functional and customer requirements and is ready to ship on schedule
- Owns product validation regarding test plan definition, test plan execution, and primary lead in failure analysis
- Primary lead in performing performance characterization of product and tracking down any observed anomalies
- Contributes to overall test schedule development
- Writes the test plans for new product features, generates test matrices, test reports, and other relevant test documentation that is required for flawless program execution
- Defines new tests based on customer feedback and defect fixes
- Executes existing/regression test cases for the project during the entire product development cycle
- Works closely with the other system test, hardware, ASIC and firmware engineers to improve test methodology and develop new tests and new strategies
- Configures customer hardware and software systems; troubleshoot problems to get to root cause
- Maintains customer and test equipment to current revision
Benefits
- paid vacation time
- paid sick leave
- medical/dental/vision insurance
- life, accident and disability insurance
- tax-advantaged flexible spending and health savings accounts
- employee assistance program
- other voluntary benefit programs such as supplemental life and AD&D, legal plan, pet insurance, critical illness, accident and hospital indemnity
- tuition reimbursement
- transit
- the Applause Program
- employee stock purchase plan
- the Western Digital Savings 401(k) Plan
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
