Software Development Engineer In Testing @ McAfee

About the role

• Responsible for delivering design and development of feature updates on both Hardware and Software.
• Perform debugging and troubleshooting across hardware, software and firmware across both physical appliances and virtual systems, appliance models and virtual platforms.
• Responsible for executing interoperability and compatibility tests across various system peripherals and components.
• Understand the product/module requirement and come up with required System and component level test plans and scripts for automated testing.
• Reviewing product documentation and providing feedback.
• Responsible for designing and developing automated tools or frameworks as required.
• Perform debugging and troubleshooting in variety of local and remote System Environments including production rigs at customers end.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively both within a team and cross-group to drive identification and resolution of issues to ship under tight deadlines along with being able to drive features into the product.
• Closely work with Support team in timely triage of customer cases including recreation of issues and verification of bug fixes.

About you

• 7 - 12 years of professional work experience.
• Knowledge hands-on C/C++/Python/Shell/Perl scripting experience
• Should have strong proficiency in functional and non-functional testing, including experience of code review / bug analysis, development of test tools, designing test cases and contribution to effective test planning.
• In depth knowledge of Disk Types (SSD, HDD, etc.), Disk enclosures, RAID, LUN and PCIe devices.
• Good knowledge on various embedded hardware sensors such as Power, Voltage, Temperature, PSU, LED Alerts and troubleshooting any underlying component failures on the same.
• Hands-on expertise on RMM, BIOS upgrade, RAID recoveries, Hot swapping, Serial connections, PXE Installations etc.
• Expertise on Linux software troubleshooting, OS maintenance, server configuration and backup.
• Prior experience in handling, installing, shifting rack mounted blade servers and initial network configuration including Static/DHCP schemes.
• Basic Knowledge on Routing and switching and ability to configure and troubleshoot various network topologies between several hardware components.
• Knowledge on firmware, device controllers, RAM, processor sockets LGA, SPGA, mPGA etc and CPU clock cycles.
• Knowledge of bug tracking system like Bugzilla, JIRA and Test Management tools such as TestRail, X-Ray, TestLink etc.
• Understanding hands-on experience of at least one of configuration management tools such as Git, SVN, Perforce, ClearCase
• Understanding of Networking protocols such as TCP, UDP, SNMP, HTTP, FTP, DNS, SSL is strongly desirable.
• Understanding of Cloud Computing, Virtualization (ESXi, Hyper-V, KVM) experience with AWS/Azure is strongly preferred
• Should have excellent debugging, troubleshooting, analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Good verbal and written communication in English.