Senior Staff Software Engineer in Test

Druva is the leading provider of data security solutions, empowering customers to secure and recover their data from all threats. The Druva Data Security Cloud is a fully managed SaaS solution offering air-gapped and immutable data protection across cloud, on-premises, and edge environments. By centralizing data protection, Druva enhances traditional security measures and enables faster incident response, effective cyber remediation, and robust data governance. Trusted by nearly 7,500 customers, including 75 of the Fortune 500, Druva safeguards business data in an increasingly interconnected world. Visit druva.com and follow us on LinkedIn, X and Facebook.

Enterprise Workload is a unified server backup and archival built on Druva’s secure, enterprise-trusted, and high-performance cloud platform. With Phoenix, data can be stored indefinitely with limitless snapshots and flexible retention policies, while at the same time significantly lowering your backup costs. Druva takes a multi-layered approach to securing data that is unmatched in the industry – enabling organizations to address both their data security and data privacy requirements.  

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior SDET who brings strong engineering fundamentals, deep automation capability, and a passion for quality in distributed, cloud-based systems. This role involves designing test strategies, improving automation frameworks, and working closely with developers to ensure the reliability and security of complex backup workflows.

You will contribute across the full lifecycle - from feature design and white-box testing to deployment and validation in cloud environments.

• →Agile Collaboration: Work closely with the development team in an Agile environment to understand functional specifications and design requirements.
• →Test Planning: Independently create comprehensive feature test plans aligned with development milestones and feature completion.
• →Automation Frameworks: Leverage existing automation frameworks to automate feature tests and actively augment libraries to support new functionalities.
• →End-to-End Ownership: Own the complete test execution cycle for user stories, ensuring high-quality delivery.
• →Testing Strategy: Perform a mix of automated, manual, white-box, and black-box testing.
• →Infrastructure Management: Create, maintain, and document testbed setups and environments.
• →Quality Assurance: Timely reporting, tracking, and updating of issues and test cases using management tools.
• →Cross-Functional Delivery: Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure quality benchmarks are met throughout the development lifecycle.

• B.Tech / B.E / M.E./ M.Tech (Computer Science) or equivalent.

• Strong expertise in Windows/Linux, file systems, and OS-level concepts.
• Solid understanding of threading, multiprocessing, and socket programming.
• Good knowledge of networking and cloud architecture fundamentals, preferably with exposure to AWS and/or Azure services (networking, storage, compute, IAM).

• Proficiency in Python or Java (Python preferred).
• Strong Shell scripting ability.
• Hands-on experience with SQL databases.

• Strong experience in REST API testing and backend automation.
• Proficiency with tools like Git, Jira, XRay, etc.
• Strong analytical and debugging skills.

• Understanding of Docker, or Kubernetes.
• Experience with NoSQL systems (MongoDB, Cassandra).
• Experience testing workloads on AWS/Azure, including basic resource setup, debugging and monitoring (Cloudwatch etc).